Has anyone on here installed the relay that comes with their HID conversion kits? Im just wondering how you went to doing this, since our battery is located in the trunk.

 

There is a hot terminal in the engine bay

 

the terminal used to jumpstart the car if needed? right in front of the fuse box

 

Yeah, just pop the red cap off. I used it to power my ballasts for my retro. Popped the cap off, put the o-ring on it, put the cap back on.

 

ok thanks guys, imma try and install the 2 relays for both my HID kits.

 

Def do, that is why I took mine out, because they would flicker...

 

now i was looking at my relay harness for one, and it only has one thing to connect to the hedlight harness, does that mean i keep one headlight harness unplugged?

 

That was the reason why I didn't hook them up too

Lack of knowledge

 

haha thats why we have CSS.net, to help us out with this kinda stuff, but im going to play with it and see if it works

 

yes you only plug one oem harness into the relay....the other one dangles somewhere safely in the engine bay...tape it off so its weather proof

 

ok, will figure it out one of these days thanks!!!

 

seems like there are some extra wires .....anyone have a picture on where everything goes??

 

From the relay you should have two base dongles, one goes to 12volt power/ground the other one heads off to the ballasts,but not before spliting into four Each Ballast has two connections on it, ones goes directly to the headlight , the other goes to the relay. Now you should have two connections left and if your kit was like mine , two more strings of wire that are seperate from the rest. Some kits have this piece integrated intro the harness others have it so you have to do it yourself. In anycase this goes to the plug that would have normally pluged into the back of the headlight, and if its not connected to the relay already then it it should.
I have no dangling taped off wire in mine, everything has been connected, and no I don't highbeams.
As for the power and ground, the ground should go one of the bolts on the strut tower,(the one thats marked ground) be sure to sand/scrape the paint away for a better ground. Power- well if put the cap on over the o-ring worked for you guys, stick with it. but there are a few problems with that, loose connection cause flicker, flicker is a momentary loss of power, when they connect again it sends a surge through the system that could or should I say one day will fry the whole thing. If you take the fuse box cover off you will see that that post goes all the way down, I used a clamps from a fuel line but even a garden hose clamp will do, anything to make sure that the connection is tight. I know this goes without saying but I'll say it anyway, make sure you disconnect the Batt. before you do all this, BOTH terminals,
Its late right now but sometime in the next few hours I will get some pics of mine to show you

 

im going to be putting in hids in my lows and also my fogs.. im guessing i should get relays? would it be dumb for me NOT to get them? i know putting them in your fogs is pointless but im sick of changing my bulbs once or twice a year when i can just install an hid kit and be done with it for 5 years

 

Mine came as a kit, Bulbs, ballasts, relays fuses and prewired for plug and play, its a philips 6000k kit, I think the same as on stock BMW's but I can't back that, so don't quote me. In anycase the look sick but are not blinding other drivers.
If you order them on line beware, the one I got was all written in some asian language,only english on it was the website, but the whole sit was not in english, thus no instructions, lucky for me they had pictures (lol)