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01-13-2008, 07:56 PM
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How to: HID installation
So you decided to buy the plug and play kit off of ebay huh? Well there are a lot of members on this forum who have them so I'll make this how to for you guys how have yet to buy them.
First off. If your a rebel like myself and want HID lights in the stock headlights the size you will need is 9007. If you have projector headlights I believe those sizes are H1.
Now that that is clear. Here is the how to with ebay kit with 4500K lights and 9007 size.
Heres the box you will receive.
Heres what comes inside the box.
Now for the installation.
1. Take both of your headlights off of your car.
2. Take both of your headlight brackets off of your car (Pic below)
3. now that the bracket if off, you will mount the HID bulb controller underneath of those brackets. (picture below)
4. Now that both sides have the HID bulb controller underneath, you will now mount the relay box (little black box) on the driver side of the car. bolted to the front of your engine bay. ( pic below)
5. Now that that is hooked you, you will take the positive cable from that and run it to your battery post under the hood. Just unscrew all the way off and then cut a slit in the '0' on the end of the red positive cable to slide it down the battery post all the way down. Now bolt it back on. ( Pic below)
6. Now that it is hooked up to the postive, you can now take your time and hook up negative. There is a ground spot on the driver side right behind the headlight which is used for the cars ground, I used this one for the HID's as well.
7.Now with the long cable that is insulated with the plastic, you may run that across the front of your car along w/the stock one. (pic below) As you can see there are 2 plastic housing looking things running across the front. Use either electrical tape or zip ties to hold them together. this is so it wont be dangling by the fan in our cars.
8. with the wire running to the pasanger side of the car, you may ground it to this thing. (pic below)
10. To install the bulbs in our stock housings. we must first take out the old bulbs obviously, and with the new 9007 HID bulbs. they come apart in half right where the grey rubber is. there is also writting on the HID bulb to lock/unlock. just twist the bulb to unlock it and take it apart
11. With it taken apart, put the bulb side in, it has the 3 notches like our stock bulbs to line up. Once this is lined up you can put the black piece on behind it to secure it in place, And then following that put the other half of the HID bulb on it to lock it in place.
12. Next step it to make sure your wires are all hooked up to your HID bulbs from relay box. There is 3 connections and one ground for each hid bulb. Once this is all together. dont worry about the extra piece on your passanger side (blue clip) that it is not pluged in. This is just to tell your headlights when to turn off and on. But now that you have the driver side headlight hooked up to the one comiing fromt he relay. this will take care of it for both headlights. (pic below)
or you can see it not connected up in the other picture ( pic below)
Also make sure you plug the connections into the HID bulb controller under the headlight bracket b4 you secure it back in place.
EVERYTHING IS PLUG AND PLAY. So this is just a general installation guide to help you with your process. It doesn't take much if any at all knowledge of cars. Just more or less common sense.
and for the finished picture....
4300K
I hope this helps
any questions just PM me.
First off. If your a rebel like myself and want HID lights in the stock headlights the size you will need is 9007. If you have projector headlights I believe those sizes are H1.
Now that that is clear. Here is the how to with ebay kit with 4500K lights and 9007 size.
Heres the box you will receive.
Heres what comes inside the box.
Now for the installation.
1. Take both of your headlights off of your car.
2. Take both of your headlight brackets off of your car (Pic below)
3. now that the bracket if off, you will mount the HID bulb controller underneath of those brackets. (picture below)
4. Now that both sides have the HID bulb controller underneath, you will now mount the relay box (little black box) on the driver side of the car. bolted to the front of your engine bay. ( pic below)
5. Now that that is hooked you, you will take the positive cable from that and run it to your battery post under the hood. Just unscrew all the way off and then cut a slit in the '0' on the end of the red positive cable to slide it down the battery post all the way down. Now bolt it back on. ( Pic below)
6. Now that it is hooked up to the postive, you can now take your time and hook up negative. There is a ground spot on the driver side right behind the headlight which is used for the cars ground, I used this one for the HID's as well.
7.Now with the long cable that is insulated with the plastic, you may run that across the front of your car along w/the stock one. (pic below) As you can see there are 2 plastic housing looking things running across the front. Use either electrical tape or zip ties to hold them together. this is so it wont be dangling by the fan in our cars.
8. with the wire running to the pasanger side of the car, you may ground it to this thing. (pic below)
10. To install the bulbs in our stock housings. we must first take out the old bulbs obviously, and with the new 9007 HID bulbs. they come apart in half right where the grey rubber is. there is also writting on the HID bulb to lock/unlock. just twist the bulb to unlock it and take it apart
11. With it taken apart, put the bulb side in, it has the 3 notches like our stock bulbs to line up. Once this is lined up you can put the black piece on behind it to secure it in place, And then following that put the other half of the HID bulb on it to lock it in place.
12. Next step it to make sure your wires are all hooked up to your HID bulbs from relay box. There is 3 connections and one ground for each hid bulb. Once this is all together. dont worry about the extra piece on your passanger side (blue clip) that it is not pluged in. This is just to tell your headlights when to turn off and on. But now that you have the driver side headlight hooked up to the one comiing fromt he relay. this will take care of it for both headlights. (pic below)
or you can see it not connected up in the other picture ( pic below)
Also make sure you plug the connections into the HID bulb controller under the headlight bracket b4 you secure it back in place.
EVERYTHING IS PLUG AND PLAY. So this is just a general installation guide to help you with your process. It doesn't take much if any at all knowledge of cars. Just more or less common sense.
and for the finished picture....
4300K
I hope this helps
any questions just PM me.
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04-23-2008, 06:22 PM
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just installed my kit last nite and aimed em and they are so sweet, so bright i can really see now. mine didnt come with a relay box so i did my own and it works great.
04-24-2008, 01:53 PM
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i disagree with hid's in stock headlights but i'm not gonna flame you about it. the point of this how-to is "hid installation" not "how-to put hids in stock headlights" so on that note great how-to and it will come to great use when i put mine on this week.
05-03-2008, 10:53 PM
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so how does it feel putting everyone else one the road in danger?
jk man lol
dont want to start a flame war
jk man lol
dont want to start a flame war
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Yeah, with the projector lights, the halogen bulb is poor... Upgrading to silverstars doesn't help it much either. Usually the solution a number of people do is wire a relay to let the HID continue operating while the high beams are on, that way you don't suddenly lose a ton of light.
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what are the amps for the relay fuse. is that a 20 amp? i just tried to install my HID's and i only had the 10 amp in . . they wouldn't turn on. so i re-read the instructions and it says that if they headlight fuse is combined it has to be 30 amp, if they are separate, they have to be at least 20amps each.
i hate reading. i guess it serves a purpose though. ha. let you know how it goes.
i hate reading. i guess it serves a purpose though. ha. let you know how it goes.
09-11-2008, 01:58 PM
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I'm confused.....
Mine came with a blue connector that you plug into one of the 9007 harnesses. But what I don;t understand is if you plug that in, it doesn't plug into the headlight side, so then how do you turn the parking lights on and off with that headlight? Also it says in this how-to that the blue clip doesn't have to be connected it just tells your headlights when to turn on and off, so what they are always on, you don't have the choice to turn them off while the car is running?
Mine came with a blue connector that you plug into one of the 9007 harnesses. But what I don;t understand is if you plug that in, it doesn't plug into the headlight side, so then how do you turn the parking lights on and off with that headlight? Also it says in this how-to that the blue clip doesn't have to be connected it just tells your headlights when to turn on and off, so what they are always on, you don't have the choice to turn them off while the car is running?
09-11-2008, 08:25 PM
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those hid kits are weird mine just pluged into the original 9007 harness then to the ballast and then to the bulbs...mine have high beams but was to lazy to hook them up because i never in my life have used the high beams while i drive...