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Hey guys,
I have a plug and play kit from Techone. 9006 bulbs, 5000k.

I had them installed in September, working great since.. anyway, the other day I fired them up and my driver side bulb doesn't start. So I'm pissed, thinking my bulb is burned out. After trying to turn on/off/on/off, playing with high beams, it finally fired up and worked.

I noticed what I have to do to get it to fire: With my lights off, I hold the high beams on until the bulb fires. Then I can turn the high beams off, and turn on my regular lights and the bulb will turn on. It sometimes takes 5-10 seconds of holding high beams on for it to fire up.

I swapped bulbs too, to see if it really is the ballast. It did the exact same thing even with the other bulb in the driver side. So, obviously it's not the bulbs.

Any suggestions on what is happening? Connections seem fine...

I contacted the distributor and they said they'll replace the ballast under warranty if I want.

 
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Oh yeah, keep this in mind:

With my lights off: If I flash my highbeams, it uses the 9006 low beam bulbs.

With my lights on: If I flash the highbeams, it uses the 9005 high beam bulbs.


So, I leave the lights off and hold the highbeam switch on.. this is using my 9006 HID bulbs as 'highbeams'.

 
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Remember when I said that all HID's should run off relays? The reason for this is b/c the factory OEM wiring in your car is not made to handle the high voltage spike during initial startup, the ballasts are drawing all the power from your stock OEM wiring harness to power the bulbs with your current setup. With a relay, what it does is it draws power from the battery (through the aftermarket wire) instead of your OEM wiring harness which has smaller thinner wires.

It is definitely one of the following:

1) Ballast going faulty
2) OEM harness starting to 'melt', so it can't provide enough current that the ballast requires (leaning towards this).

The reason I'm leaning towards #2 is b/c the factory OEM harness has to travel a farther distance from the battery to the plug and with the combined cold weather, there is greater resistence with the cold and the longer length.

One thing I would try if it was myself would be to get a relay setup and see if that works. Get a Bosch relay (5 plugs) but it will be a PITA to try to get it all hooked up b/c you will need plugs that fit from the OEM harness to the relay then back to the ballast.



Is this correct?? I mean I thought these were safe for my car?