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07-23-2015, 08:50 PM #1InActive Member
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Please Help Me Diagnose My HID Issue
Hi all, I'm having a problem with my HID high beams on my 96 TA. I've only had the car since April and the PO said that the high/low HIDs had just been installed not long before the sale. I don't know what brand the kit is. The high beams recently stopped working. Low beams are functioning perfectly. I tried to switch to my high beams one night about two weeks ago and the headlights went out. Blue hi beam light in the dash comes on. I can switch back to lows and they work just fine. I did get the highs to come on once, but they went out after a couple seconds. That was a few nights ago. I have not been able to get the highs to come on since. Any ideas? Please bear with me, I don't really know much about HID lights.
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07-23-2015, 08:55 PM #2Xtreme Member
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They are only two kinds of low/high HID kits. One has a HID lamp for the low beam operation and the other is a small halogen used for the high. The other setup is a single HID lamp with a shield controlled by a solenoid.
Any chance you can see inside and determination which you have? When you click the highs, does everything go dark or there is simply no change in the output?
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07-23-2015, 09:24 PM #3InActive Member
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07-23-2015, 09:36 PM #4InActive Member
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I just had someone else tell me that the only style for our cars is the shield/solenoid type that uses a magnet. Is this right?
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07-23-2015, 11:00 PM #5InActive Member
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Upon further examination of mine, they don't appear to be factory housings. There's the main bulb in the center but there's also a smaller blue one underneath it that angles upward. I'll post a pic. The lights are not on in the photo, that's the flash from my camera.
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07-23-2015, 11:01 PM #6InActive Member
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Sorry, the photo posted sideways for some reason.
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07-24-2015, 05:37 AM #7Xtreme Member
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Tells me that you may have the two bulb system. I would almost guess this is a wiring issue if both sides go out and nothing else lights up.
That is not true.
I can see the main HID lamp but tough to see anything else. The small lamp on the bottom is called a city light. It doesn't serve any real purpose.
Can you get the bulb out so we can really see what you have or even a name on one of the HID ballasts?
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07-24-2015, 07:49 AM #8InActive Member
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I've looked at both ballasts and there aren't any visible markings, brand names, or part numbers. I'll pull one of the bulbs when I get home this evening.
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07-25-2015, 02:15 PM #9InActive Member
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I've not been able to find any bad connections in the wiring. I'm really starting to believe that it's the dimmer switch. When I first got the car, sometimes when I'd hit the switch for high beams, they would stay on low beams. Fogs would stay on as well, proving that it stayed on lows. Other times, it would go to high beams, but it would stay stuck on highs even after switching back to lows. When this happened, I would have to turn the headlights off and turn them back on to get back to low beams.
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07-25-2015, 08:50 PM #10Xtreme Member
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Were you able to pull one of the bulbs?
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