Everytime I get in my car and start it up, my passanger headlight don't turn on.. If I turn my headlights completely off and turn them back on again, it works.. wtf? Does anybody know a fix for this ? The Ground is good.

 

Happens to almost every car with aftermarket hids ..what I used to do to prevent that was putting the switch on "high beam" when car was off so every time I turned on the car it would start off with high beams to prevent wearing out hid's quicker.... Then I would switch to hid's...

 

What the........ huh? High beams to prevent wearing out the hids?

 

U start the car with high beams..then when car is on turn hids on.... Ahh don't know how else I can explain this....

 

DRL's are disabled and Headlight on at unlock feature turned off?

 

Yup. The headlight on at unlock feature is turned off.. When I push my lever forward for constant high beams, the HID's dont work at all... When I pull the lever towards me, for temporary high beams, both low and highs work. I have a the low/high beam kit. I dont believe these are hooked up wrong. Ive had 2 other cobalts and not a single problem with HID's.

 

Do you have a High/Low kit or a Bi-Xenon kit. Our High/Low kits operate as you describe as there single xenons or LOW beams only. The tiny halogen is for inspection only.

 

Ohh. Okay.. I guess I'm just uneducated about this stuff..

When I push the lever forward for high beams, it shuts the lows off, and just my daytime running lights stay on.. When I pull it towards me, the lows stay on and the halogen comes on too.. not very noticable; halogen vs HID lol.. I'm just trying to verify that this is how they operate and I dont have a faulty kit.

 

That is how a High/low kit works as you do not have high beams. Bi-Xenon is HID Low and HID Highs.

Think of it as a Low Beam only kit replacing a factory High/Low bulb. Thus the name

 

Okay, yes thats fine. I really appreciate your help buddy.. Turbosmart4 said to keep your highbeams on when youre not driving, I didn't know if it would help me because my high beams dont work.

 

No, I said keep them on for when u start the car , they won't flicker etc even if hi beams don't work... Keep it on before u start the car so u won't have to deal with getting one turned on and one off and having to turn them on and off again to make the hids work

 

Yes sir. I'm sorry I typed that the wrong way, but thats what I meant.. keeping the highbeams on until I start the car, then switch over to lows.

 

Finally someone gets it!

 

Hopefully it works though. I get off work in 5 minutes, so im going to try it out. It just gets annoying turning your headlights on and off.. theres been a few times that the headlight didnt come on at all the 2nd time turning them off and I drove around town with a paddiddle... lol

 

Atleast ur hid's work...I've been driving around with high beams on cuz my ballasts went out lol

 

Ouch, sorry to hear that. If you was in Ohio, I would give you a set of ballasts lol.

 

Hahaha I'm trying to get morimoto's but $$$

 

you should have pulled the fuse for your DTRL? That could be your issue.

 

 

Yes^ we drive around houston(big city) and always spot cars but mostly trucks driving around with one hid on and one off.

 

Agreed. I have HIDs in all of my cars, family cars and friends car. That is NOT normal, unless a 12 year old installed them, then I guess it's acceptable.

For bixenon, the retractable bulb kits, I have noticed there is always more wear and less power going to the passenger side headlight creating premature wear on the ballast and the bulb. Just replace both every now and then and you'll be fine. I mean hell these kits are cheap now days.... I remember back in the day when HIDs first started paying $200/kit.

 

my $30 ebay kits dont even do this, so it doesnt happen with almost every car with hid kits. lol

 

Mine don't do that either lol.

 

I had that problem for a while and I was even running a relay harness. Finally replaced the ballasts with a different brand and I don't have the problem anymore.

 

Its amazing that there is anyone out there who finds an hid kit that doesn't work every time acceptable. A good kit will always work flawlessly without any tricks. Op, if you don't have one make sure you have a relay harness.