So I've been driving the truck pretty regularly now that the cold weather is here and I just took my car off the road. The other night I was leaving work and I turned my headlights on and my hids didn't fire up. I switched them on and off a few times and they still didn't fire. I popped the hood and jumped out of the truck, the parking lamps were lit but the hid's weren't I looked under the hood and everything was plugged in. I double checked the connections and still couldn't get anything. It was late so I said the hell with it and got back in the truck. I turned the high beams on and they worked no problem(regular halogen). I drove home and said **** it I will deal with it in the morning. Fast forward to today....I jump in the truck, fire it up, and the hid's come right on...okay I say and I drive to work. Later on at work a guy comes in and asks if I could give him a jump. I say okay and head outside fire up the truck and pull up to his. When I jump out to hook up the trucks I notice my passenger side hid is out but my driver's side is lit. I say wtf to myself jump his truck park mine and go back into work.
Then I leave for work for the night fire the truck up and can't get the hids to come on. I flick the high-beams on and then off and the hids fire up. I say okay cool and drive home. I get home and decide to mess around with them some more. Seems the only time i can get them to fire is if I turn the headlight switch on flick the highbeams on and then back off. This works about 95% of the time. Does anyone have any ideas what the hell is going on? I have the hids wired up through a relay harness so they draw directly from the battery. They worked great for 2-3 weeks and now I'm having issues. If i had a bad ballast would it cause these issues? I figured a bad ballast would only cause one side not to fire. It seems when they don't want to fire both sides won't fire, except for when I gave the dude a jump only the driver's side fired that time. Anyways to test a ballast? I have a lifetime warranty through ddmtuning so I'm hoping I can get it replaced hassle free but I'm not sure exactly what is wrong. I'd definitely like to get it squared aways before the temps here really start to plunge.
Sorry for the long read but I wanted to be as thorough as possible. I have tomorrow off so I'm going to dick around with it some more but I wanted to see if anybody had any input on what the hell could be my problem.
THanks
Then I leave for work for the night fire the truck up and can't get the hids to come on. I flick the high-beams on and then off and the hids fire up. I say okay cool and drive home. I get home and decide to mess around with them some more. Seems the only time i can get them to fire is if I turn the headlight switch on flick the highbeams on and then back off. This works about 95% of the time. Does anyone have any ideas what the hell is going on? I have the hids wired up through a relay harness so they draw directly from the battery. They worked great for 2-3 weeks and now I'm having issues. If i had a bad ballast would it cause these issues? I figured a bad ballast would only cause one side not to fire. It seems when they don't want to fire both sides won't fire, except for when I gave the dude a jump only the driver's side fired that time. Anyways to test a ballast? I have a lifetime warranty through ddmtuning so I'm hoping I can get it replaced hassle free but I'm not sure exactly what is wrong. I'd definitely like to get it squared aways before the temps here really start to plunge.
Sorry for the long read but I wanted to be as thorough as possible. I have tomorrow off so I'm going to dick around with it some more but I wanted to see if anybody had any input on what the hell could be my problem.
THanks
