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Old Sep 5, 2012 | 07:12 PM
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ok im not sure if this is the right section but for some reason my drivers side headlights wont turn on (low beam,high beam, fog light) also my passengers side high beam wont turn on. I just installed hid's and they worked perfectly for about two weeks until now. only other thing that has happened is that we got a ton of rain the day they stopped working but its been 2 days since and still no lights
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Old Sep 5, 2012 | 09:31 PM
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Make sure the ballasts still power on. Might if gotten them wet.
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Old Sep 5, 2012 | 09:46 PM
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I would take the hids all out and put in stock bulbs and see if they were. At least it will narrow down rather its the hids or the truck. Obviously if the stock bulbs work then the hids are messed up
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Old Sep 5, 2012 | 09:58 PM
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^^ try stock bulbs and see if they work. If they all work your ballast might have gone bad.
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Old Sep 6, 2012 | 06:10 PM
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Well i took your advice and my regular bulbs work but when i switch to the hid's it just keeps blowing fuses. kinda pisses me off because these are supposed to be waterproof hopefully they'll send me new ballasts. i e-mailed the company today
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Old Sep 6, 2012 | 09:01 PM
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Well if you have to order new kits PM me. I can give u a link to a great company for hids. There warranteed and are quality kits for about 60 bucks.
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Old Sep 7, 2012 | 12:41 AM
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FYI, you get what you pay for. I used to sell lots of the "quality" less than $70 kits. I quit including ANY warranty for them after I sold about 55 kits due to high failure rate from water ingress- I never had any other sort of failure from them.

I currently recommend DistantXtremes XenonsPlus for a quality HID kit. You pay dollar, but you get real quality. Much better than any of the cheap kits can hope to compare to.
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Old Sep 7, 2012 | 01:22 AM
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Well. I dont know if thats directed at what i said or not but the kits ive gotten from there are fantastic. And if something happens they replace it. Best place ive seen. There waaay better than anything off of ebay.
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