Hi people I am new to this site and wanna say that I love this forum. Learn so much and see kick ass rides on here.. Anyway, I bought an hid kit and it will not work. It is a kit that everything plugs together and no way you can plug the wires incorrectly. When I go to turn on the lights, everything works but the lo beams, (which is the hid), I can hear the ballets clicking. The thing that confuses me is that the ballets has no grounding wire. It is just a bare metal piece on the bottom. Please, any ideas are welcome.

Thanks and keep on building bad ass rides!

 

U can have the wire backwards. Is your kit a single beam kit of a bi xenon kit?

 

How cheap of a kit are we talking here?

 

Awww my easiest post today. Remove them and throw them away. Piaa bulbs just as good no blinding for others.

God one day we as a honda nation well get over the ricer perception, but hids are not going to help.

 

^ amen to that bthasht.

 

Wow my first post. This board seems supportive.

 

Yep. Most guys on here are buttholes about hid pnp kits. Personally i have a pnp kit and it works great. Instead of helping advice on this forum, people have there personal opinions reflecting on there advice there going to give u. Which is sometimes ok as long as you give them some advice to work on the problem there having. In ur case no one has helped u with ur problem but instead said done nothing but made u feel like crap for even asking the question. As far as ur kit not working, there is two ways the actual connectors to the ballest go into the wiring harness to the car. If it doesnt work one way then it needs to b flipped around to the other way. I hope im helping in any way.

 

post what type of kit you have...if its single bulb u loss hi beams....and u have to wire up low beams....just get a test light and check to see what wires the low beams are...

 

Ya that can be checked too. Also wat wuld help us a million is a picture if u got it.

 

People are being d*cks because you guys with PnP HIDs blind everybody else on the road. Sure it looks cool and feels brighter, but it's actually just obnoxious.

It doesn't matter how you re-aim your headlights, you'd still produce glare because the light's just scattering everywhere.

That's probably why nobody is helping, they don't want another car with PnP HIDs on the road.

 

This is exactly y im never on this forum on anymore. Everyone takes crap tooo personal wen the guy just wants help. If u dont like what hes doing o well. But if the guys asking for help we shuld help him out as much as we can bec nomatter what u say hes guna still use his hid kit.

 

I'm just saying it makes perfect sense why people aren't being supportive, you can't be mad at that. It didn't look to me like anybody was taking anything personal.

I have no experience with HIDs so I couldn't help even if I wanted to.

 

Atleast ur not being too Mean about it. I just know i was in his shoes wen i started on this forum and no one ever made fun of or thought any question was stupid and actually helped people out. But as soon as a lot of good top modders left and sold their cars then the forum started getting mean. And everything change. Jdmchris and all the guys never acted like this. They were always positive to the other members nomatter wat. Either way im more willing to help with watever questions the members have and if i dont like it then i hold my tongue. Especially wen he wasnt asking anyones opinion on his lights. He just wanted to get them to work right. Either way wen i see these new guys that need help and i know everyone is guna judge him for watever hes doing ill just tell him to pm me and ill help him out as best i can.

 

Hmmm... positive is positive. We are trying to be helpful in a way the OP doesn't pose as a jerk blinding people driving ahead/opposing.

I used to have pnp hids for about 6 months until i figured out how offensive my headlight blind-age was. I soon came to a realization that I needed to makes things right by doing hids the right way.

I must admit going with a projector retrofit did cost exponentially more than a set of pnp hid kit but I now have peace of mind that my lights are bright and that I'm not blinding others in traffic. I too know how it feels to be blinded by lifted silverados and f150s with pnp hids with no regards to other motorist. In such a case of lifted truck blinders I really wish I had rear facing floodlights with a 10,000watt output blindmaster lights that I can activate at a flip of a switch.

lifted trucks are the biggest offenders in my book for pnp hids and also dumb FoMos that leave their highbeams on with their pnp hids because it makes every thing more visible at night. The glare from non-hid specific reflector bowls are just as bad. For everyone that questions "how can i, why doesn't my", hid kit work or install is going to get bombarded with people like me who will sway the hid noob away and will advise to install halogen bulbs instead of trying to install their pnp hids.

xonexlifex, please do not try and justify pnp hids and defend them in anyway because we all have been there, in front of some jerk ass who aims their headlight cutoff too high and blinds you from all 3 mirrors or, the eg hatch with 8000k superblue hids that will blind any and all in front of him.

Furthermore, if you really want to go hid, do it right and get a projector retrofit setup, you have to pay to play. If you want a better functioning, brighter, whiter beam, get better halogen bulbs. If your sole intention is for the "look" of hid with a pnp kit, just stay the hell away from where I live.

 

Ya i completely agree with wat ur saying. But at the same time they do have nice bi xenon kits that have nice glare shields and do produce most or any more glare then a regular bulb. If u get a nice kit then it really doesnt blind anyone. Ive never ever ever ever been flashed and ask people all the time if im blinding them (friends,family) and they didnt even see a difference in the light. Sure if u get 8000k or higher it blinds like a mother. But if u get anything below with proper equipment u actually dont blind anyone. Xenith xenons has a hid kit u can adjust any glare completely out and hes a vender on here. Im just gunna say ur right but at the same time thats not guna stop people from doing wat there guna do anyday.

 

I think you're missing the point.

The point is that PnP HIDs produce glare. It doesn't matter if you re-aim the headlights or install a "glare shield."

Not everyone who gets annoyed by your lights is going to high-beam you. Just because you're not getting high-beamed doesn't mean nobody is getting glare from your lights. Just because your friends and family aren't bothered by your lights doesn't mean the majority of people on the road aren't bothered by them.

People with PnP HIDs generally fall into 2 categories of people:
1. Misinformed - they don't fully understand the physics and science of high intensity discharge light sources as opposed to filaments
OR
2. Inconsiderate and selfish - they know exactly what they're doing and simply don't care that they're taking away from others' driving experiences

I don't think you're inconsiderate and selfish, but I do think you're misinformed and should do some research on your own since you don't seem to be taking our word for it.

This, for example, shows that you don't fully comprehend HIDs. 8000k is a color temperature, not a brightness. The truth is actually opposite of what you suggest, 4300K is brighter than 8000K. 8000K is just more blue, that's all. Check it out if you have color temp settings on your computer monitor, you'll see that a higher color temp is not brighter at all.

If you still don't believe me, just look it up for yourself. It'll only take a few minutes.

 

either way it doesnt matter and nothings going to change my mind, i got all my info for hids from the guys that started this damn forum and now that everyone is gone and i find everytime im on here now is a waste of time bec all people care about is bashing hids, please, i have better things to do. im not stupid and understand that it produces a small amount of more glare, but so do silverstar ultras and any other brighter halogen out there. im just tired of hearing it, and people disrespecting some peoples questions on this forum. its terrible, and pathetic.

 

I've tried a bunch of different HID PnPs, the best so far is the bi-xenon type with a solenoid that physically moves the bulb for high & low beam. The important thing to look for is a glare shield UNDER and IN FRONT of the HID arc. Some of the bad quality HID bulbs aren't positioned as closely as the OEM halogen bulbs, if they're closer to the base, then it's like the high beam, reflecting light higher.



It's very delicate, I've been extremely careful with mine, making sure to shine it against walls, adjusting the aim, getting out of my car and walking in front and then lowering my eyes to other car levels to see if ther'es glare. Sure projectors are the ideal way, but not everyone has the money or know-how to go through it. PnP is possible, you'll get hotspots like regular halogen, but the Fit's projector bowl does have a cutoff too, not as sharp as projectors, but it's there.

 

It's your car protesting the rice. :P

 

Dude calm down. You are being just as disrespectful and your completely avoiding the point. With such minimal info I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to help op. You're mad at the world and don't know why even? Op for answers post solid questions including pics... mechanics will not diagnose via telepathic waves,phones,or internets there not being mean they just require more info