Suck.

Ok... maybe that was unfair. Maybe I got what I paid for... this system was supposed to be 'plug and play'. Well I plugged... and then chased problems. Sometimes one light won't fire up. I have to shut the lights off for a period of time and turn them back on to get both illuminated.

Then... I have the pop-up headlight curse. When I turn my headlights off, they stay up. Turning the brights on and then turning the lights off makes them close properly. I have a new battery and it does it with the car running or not.

I'm running a 20amp mini fuse for both low beam headlights (#8 and #10). I did not use any relays nor a direct positive and ground. Just plugged it inline with my factory harness.

 

You get what you pay for as I like to think......

 

try the set from djmotorsports. they seem to be the ticket for the c5.

 

I got mine from djmotorsports and they are nice. Once in a while I have to hit my high beam to turn one of them on. Not too much of a hassle.... They do look awesome at night!

 

If one does not fire just hit the flash to pass. You don't need to wait.

 

I only paid $75 shipped for mine. So far so good, did both the fogs and lows

I do get the failure to light on the left low sometimes, I just hit the flash to pass and then it lights. No issues with the doors.

Have not changed any fuses as the HIDs pull less current than the stockers

 

How much did you pay for yours?

 

Anybody know if running relays will resolve either (or both) of my issues?

 

are you running the stock 10A fuse on your fog lights then? true the HID's pull less current than the stock lights but I believe they pull more during the startup process. The instructions say to upgrade to 20A fuses. but really the high and low beams are already at 20A, they have dual fuses at 10A each. the fog lights on the other hand run off a single 10A fuse. I find it hard to believe that you can run the two HID fog lights off of a single 10A fuse. I just had the 15 I put in there blow recently. I'm going to upgrade my fog light wiring as soon as I get a chance to work on it and put some bigger wires in to power the HID fog lights and fuse them at 20A. what did everyone else do with the fuses?

 

I have not changed any of the stock fuses yet.
My fogs run every day on their shared 10 amp fuse. And I do use flash to pass for my garage door opener so the fogs get flashed off/on a couple of times a day.
If it blows I will change it to a 15 amp and see what happens.
The "instructions" that came with mine were brief and somewhat useless but said nothing about changing fuses.
I would prefer not to over fuse items as I would rather lose a fuse than other components

 

Thank you very much

 

I had the same problems with mine. I couldn't understand why some people were having this problem and others were not, all C5 headlights are wired the same, I actually found out that the connectors can be plugged in to the ballast backwards, it actually took a little force to plug them in correctly. The tabs on the connector should be on the inside of the ballast, the instructions don't make that clear. After I switched the connectors around everything worked perfect, Ill never go back to standard bulbs.

 

Mine have the tabs on the outside of the ballast. I think that is the way they are supposed to go. the thing you have to make sure is that then you plug the connector into the factory harness that you match the black wire with the black wire, and the other color wire (usually red on the HID systems) with the other color wire on the factory harness. I think many of the e-bay kits come with the connector assembled backwards, leading to the problem you have observed. when I bought my first two sets the male connector which plus into the original headlight and fog light wiring was disassembled. I got to pick which side of the connector got the black wire and the red wire. I made sure to match up the stock black wire and the HID black wire. when I bought my 3rd set that connector was already installed when they arrived, and it was installed backwards. I had to use a small flathead screwdriver to pop the pins out of the connector and put them back in on the correct sides.

on the ballast there are two tabs on the outside of the connector where you plug in the little extension wire. one side has a slant to it allowing you to easily plug the connector into it, this is towards the outside. the other has a cube block on it, on the inside, which is designed to prevent you from plugging in the wires the wrong way. double check your connections, if you have the factory black wire connected to the HID red wire and the factory positive (other color) wire plugged into the HID black wire (which seems to be the default if yours came already connected) then you have actually plugged both ends of the cable in the wrong way. Fortunately in this case, electrically speaking, two wrongs do make a right and your lights work, but it may be difficult to service or diagnose if they ever go out because your connectors are on backwards.

 

Not so the case on mine, the jumper harness is blue and black, black matching up to black on the factory harness, and the blue going to the green or tan wire, depending on the side. I can actually plug the jumper harness in either way on the ballast, both sides have tabs to hold the connector in, it is just a little more pressure is need to plug it in correctly, I think that may be throwing some people off, espcially when they look at the wiring and it is correct, but the lights still don't work correctly. I'd be willing to bet that half the time people report the lights work eratically its faulty assembly of the harness and the other half of the time it the ballast is pluged in backwards. Im sure there are probably 50 different ballast suppliers, so I guess the best way is to make sue they are wires correctly and if you still have problems, try switching the connectors on the ballast.

 

Mine work great

 

link to djmotorpsorts anyone?

 

www.djmotorsportaccessories.com

 

My bay kits was more than $80 EA. and work grate. I have the $80 kit on my SUV and it works grate.

Paul G.

 

I sent the seller an email on Sunday and haven't received a response.

Here is a link to the ad. Be forewarned, these are not a good option for HID upgrade IMO.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...148679995&rd=1

 

TTT anybody know if relays are the solution to my problems?