ok my hid's work perfectly, but when i turn my car (start the engine) half the time one flickers and turns off and i have to turn my headlights off then back on. it's really annoying and an inconvenience. I think it's either the voltage drop or my shaddy japanese ballasts

any input would help greatly
thank you

 

Is the driver side the one with the prblem?

 

its the ballast. i had the same problem then i changed ballasts and its good now.

 

its weird most the time it's the passanger side and a few times the driver side won't

i'm using a relay harness as well

 

Its the ballast. Sooner or later its going to crap out on you and wont flicker any more, it just wont turn on any more lol

 

I turned my cables arround. So instead of Red-Red and Blk-Blk i did Red-black. After that i have had no trouble with my Lights.

 

yay! ____ me right? lol

 

are your lights on before you turn on your car?

 

i'll put my car in the run position and they'll be one fine then i start the car (engine) and one will usually flicker and either turn off or stay on
if i turn the lights on once my car's started i normally don't have this problem

 

I never leave mine on when i turn the car off, I always wait to to turn them on after the car is started.

 

Me too. They recomend you to do that.

 

ok well if i do that then theres no problem with flickering/one turning off but i just always have them on so it's weird i'll get in the habit though

 

never leave any lights on when you turn off the car and always turn on the lights "after" the car is on.

 

So why does our cars have "auto" lights? Isn't this so we don't have to keep turning them on and off? Or was that just an HID related recommendation?

 

its more HID related even though I hardly ever left them on with the stock bulbs. Also our cars has the auto off so you dont leave your lights on and drain the battery.

 

I have mobileHID and I have a similar problem. The passenger side would turn off randomly when I'm driving. Then I have to turn off and turn back on my headlight to power up the passenger side again. Sometimes it would turn off again, and sometimes it would stay on. I'm getting really annoyed by this. Like everyone else says, I turn on my HID after the engine is started, so I don't really know how to fix this problem. I'm running a relay harness and slim ballast. I'm pretty sure its the ballast. Wish MobileHID is still in business so i can buy a single slim ballast or something.

 

u can use a different website to buy spare ballasts lol

 

Haha two different ballast?? Will that work?

 

yes

 

as long as theyre the same wattage it doesn't matter, it's basically just a huge capacitor