Where am i going wrong with my HID's??
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Where am i going wrong with my HID's??
Hey guys, I finally bought a bike (2001 F4i, with 10k miles) the bike is flat black, and i have tons of plans for it! which include's more carbon fiber then you can imagine (real carbon fiber, not that black ****) With alot of Dark metallic blue accents.
anyway im using one of my hid kits from my last bimmer. Its a 55 watt prolumen hid kit, it has a ballast and the bulb, it connects with a 9006 connecter. what i did (which i have done for 100s of kit instals at the shop i worked at [but this was on bimmers, not bikes]) is i went to pepboys and i bought a male 9006 plug. I cut off the plug that conects to the low beam light bulb so i had two wire (one with a white stripe and a purple one i think) so i didnt know which wire was the ground. SO i figured i would just figure it out by process of elimination. i put the male connecter into the ballast, connect the bulb. and turned the bike on, and it didnt light up. i switched the wires, started it up, and it didnt light up. I tried switching up balast and bulbs, and it never lit up???? and the high beam wont turn on?? which one is the ground wire? any help would be REALLY appriciated!
i did search an i didnt find anything that help my problem. (again i have done alot of hid installs, so im kind of baffeld on why the bulb wont light up)
anyway im using one of my hid kits from my last bimmer. Its a 55 watt prolumen hid kit, it has a ballast and the bulb, it connects with a 9006 connecter. what i did (which i have done for 100s of kit instals at the shop i worked at [but this was on bimmers, not bikes]) is i went to pepboys and i bought a male 9006 plug. I cut off the plug that conects to the low beam light bulb so i had two wire (one with a white stripe and a purple one i think) so i didnt know which wire was the ground. SO i figured i would just figure it out by process of elimination. i put the male connecter into the ballast, connect the bulb. and turned the bike on, and it didnt light up. i switched the wires, started it up, and it didnt light up. I tried switching up balast and bulbs, and it never lit up???? and the high beam wont turn on?? which one is the ground wire? any help would be REALLY appriciated!
i did search an i didnt find anything that help my problem. (again i have done alot of hid installs, so im kind of baffeld on why the bulb wont light up)
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Do your self a favor and buy yourself a cheap volt meter. IT will save you alot of trouble. I don't know what color it is but i just measured the leads and connected. A ballast will not produce power if the leads are connected back words.
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i know, they wont power the ballast if they are backwords. I even connected the stock plug and tried to wire them through there. and it didnt work. i then hooked them up to my car... and they worked flawlessly
im thinking i could have blown a fuze? where is the headlight fuze located?
im thinking i could have blown a fuze? where is the headlight fuze located?
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