ebristol

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I bought a Retrofit Projector Headlight kit from buyhids.com on Black Friday.

All Retrofit Headlights are Bi-Xenon Projectors. This means you will have your low & high beams.

Includes:
- Bi-Xenon Morimoto Mini H1 Projectors (Pair)
- Mini Gatling Gun Shrouds (Pair)
- Projectors: LHD (North American Standard)
- TRS H1 HID Kit (5,000k)
- 9007 Bi-Xenon Harness
- Standard 1 Year Warranty

All Retrofits are hand made, For this reason, there may be tiny imperfections.

The headlight options are as follows:

Option 3: Retrofit My Lights NON-PAINTED ($299.99) - You mail us your lights and we paint and do the install work of the Retrofits & aim them.

Since buyhids.com does not normally do ION retro's, I had to send in the headlights off my car. Which sucked because it means I would be without my car but it was something I could live with for a little while. I was told the turn around would be "1-2 weeks depending on other projects". They received my headlights on January 6th and I got my headlights back on February 13th. I also ordered a set of HIDs for my fog lights on January 2nd which I have still not received. But that is not my problem.

My problem is that my Retro kit is not working.

I installed the kit on February 14th. Anyone who has installed one of these kits knows it is simple. Power, ground and a bunch of plugs. So I have everything hooked up and plugged in and my low beams do not work. So I PM Mike on February 14th and get a reply on February 15th saying.

So I swap the wires and now the blue plug in my harness looks like this.



So now the lights work in the "Low" position but my high beams are still on. The lights turn off when I put the lights in the "High" position. So I go to Mike for help...

What does it mean to "flip the plug around"? Are these plugs designed to be plugged in the wrong way? Which plug exactly? I don't know anything about these kits. I wanted a "Plug and Play" solution and that is why I picked buyhids.com to do my retro. But this is turning into a huge headache and I still can not drive my car. I don't know what the weather is like is Florida but its still dark in WI when I leave work at 5:30pm.

So I was hoping to get some help from the forum. I can't wait another 24 hours for a reply that does not help me. Can someone help me figure out what I need to do get this kit to work or find out if it is defective? When I do a google search, all I get are results of people buying cheap HID kits from ebay. Did I get a cheap kit?

RKRamos

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Have you tried color matching the wires? And what does Florida have to do with this?

TommyP

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IIRC the wiring with the Ions is different than the cobalts for some reason. Send Maven a PM, I know he has done a few ions. That's a simple matter of 2 wires need to be flipped I think. You wires for high and low beam are flipped. Does it go into low beam mode when you flip the high beams on?

mkulrey13

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Most likely the reason. I was not aware of this. Any issue ive had with this is either the PINs are swapped or the High Beam plug is backwards. Cobalts mostly.

And for the record eric.. GBs take LONGER then the normal 2-5 week build time. I had 15+ sets to work with. I believe i bumped yours up ahead of alot of people to get it done for you...Also If you STILL have not received your fog light kit.. you just gotta tell me. I will send out a new one today.

ebristol

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Just the fact that if it was light out I could still drive my car. But I would get pulled over if I drove around with my high beams all the time.

I have not gotten the low beams to come on at all.

When I flipped the wires Mike told me to flip, the high beams would come on in the low beams position. But nothing would come on in the high beam position.

A good buddy on RLFs recommended this.

I feel like I am going to break this harness if I keep digging in it. I am not good with wiring...

Blinker fluid

...if that is the problem the two wires need to be swapped as they said above, be care, they can easily be broken....

breds2k

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god damn 9007/9004 pins are such a pain in the ass, ive had 3 cars that have had 9007 lights in the past 4-5 years, every time i ordered either a retro harness or a 9007 bixenon kit they were always wired for 9004 even when specified, and i think ive broke those pins 3-4 times and had to cut the wires, its really annoying. and every hid kit out there is like that.

I have a TRS harness now and i told matt to switch the pins before he shipped it, that worked out 100x better.

mkulrey13

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My apologies i was not aware of the wire different in the cars wiring. the harness i get are for 9004 and i swap them for 9007 for our Bi-xenon kits and TRS harness's.

Blinker fluid

I feel you! You can also cut the wires, swap them and soldier them together, I did this once they worked fine..just seperately wrap each soldiered wire with some electrical tape

ebristol

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Thanks for the helpful info.

The RL uses the 9007 plug.

When I originally switched my blue and orange wires I basically just switched which wire the kit thought was the high or low beam.

So I need to switch my wires back around. Do you guys think I need to switch the black wire with the orange one?

ebristol

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Well I should specify that this is what my headlights look like when they do come one.



I hope those are the high beams...

mkulrey13

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Low beams have a cutoff line.

ebristol

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I am still confused about what I need to do to fix my problem.

Do I need to match up the colors with my stock plug where:

blue - blue
orange - orange
black - red

Blinker fluid

the male plug is the factory plug right? If so then yes, make sure the colors of the wires match the ones on the factory. I recommend cutting the wires, behind the plug and soldiering them to the right pin, then wrapping them in electrical tape.. if you google "converting 9004 bulb to 9007" you should find write ups"

Blinker fluid

Research google for a while, before you do anything, to get more info. take your time with it. Soldering is reversible. Good luck, get back to us

ebristol

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I also found this regarding the headlight wiring.

Could that be true?

ebristol

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Yes. Male is factory.

TommyP

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yes that's true saturn ions are ground switched

Powell Race Parts

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Maven does all the wiring for you lol. Eric I sympathize I went through this when I first did my Ion Redline but our electrical guru here fixed it up right away in 2 nanoseconds. Which is good as I am worse than you with wiring.

ebristol

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lol We have so many things in common! I don't give a dam how this stuff works nor do I really care to learn. This is one of those things I just want to work and never have to think about again.

The sad part is that with all this help I still don't know what is wrong...

mkulrey13

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its PnP for cobalts, didnt realize ions were setup differently. dumb GM

Blinker fluid

Now we hope to see you log back in with a nice cut off picture of your lowbeams! Go now do it!

mkulrey13

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Remember you may have to twist them a tad to be perfect. Instructions were included on the paper that was in the box with the headlights. I don't have an ion to test fit/fine tune them locally unfortunately

ebristol

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Is this what you suggest I do?

mkulrey13

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on 9004 harness's i receive the orange and black are swapped so orange is in the middle.