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Old 09-15-2010, 07:13 PM
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help with relay harness and hids
so were sitting here with the front of joeys car in pieces trying to hook up his hids..

when we hook up the wiring harness we feel like we have an extra plug, and no where to put it. needless to say it isnt lighting up.

we need help.. ASAP

caution: we'll bump this every five minutes until its fixed.. lol.
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:15 PM
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how about pics of the wires and the issue
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:22 PM
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wiring harness to ballast.


little prongs to original foglight harness.


ballasts to hids, they're not plugged in. but they go there lol.


and then he's just chillin by himself. thats the plug from the hids that would originally go to the ballasts without the wiring harness.
but we dont know where it goes?

if we unplug the wiring harness and plug the hid plug to the ballasts, its works fine.
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:30 PM
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and we begin the bumping..
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:35 PM
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you thought we were kidding..
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:46 PM
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really.. no one?
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:47 PM
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Hmm check stuff u didn't unplug? To plug that in? Sry I don't have fogs
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well wouldnt that one plug into the other ballast? sorry your pics kinda confuse me. maybe if you could get a pic without everything so close.
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do you have the hid wiring harness?
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well, theres a plug on either side of the wiring harness that plugs into the ballast.
then we have the plug from the hid that would normally plug into the ballast thats just sitting there with nothing to plug into.
if that makes sense.

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do you have the hid wiring harness?
yes.
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From the few kits I've installed that would plug to the other ballast?
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the fog light wirres stay with the foglight and the wire that your not knowing goes to your hid wiring harness
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:57 PM
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well theres one of those plugs on either side of the wiring harness.
so each goes in to the ballast, correct?
leaving the plugs that would normally connect to the ballast going where?
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Old 09-15-2010, 07:58 PM
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what kit do you have and what kind of headlights are they going in?
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Old 09-15-2010, 08:02 PM
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its from buyhids.com and they're going in cobalt fogs, h11
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Old 09-15-2010, 08:10 PM
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i've been calling it a wiring harness, but i mean relay harness.
i've installed hids before, but never used a relay harness.
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if it is for a fog light kit then why are there relays? it should be just strait power from each fog light plug to the ballast
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http://www.buyhids.com/pdf/install_relay_harness.pdf
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Originally Posted by link_630
if it is for a fog light kit then why are there relays? it should be just strait power from each fog light plug to the ballast
You use a relay to prevent the stock wiring from melting from the larger current draw of the ballasts.
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Old 09-15-2010, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by kidcrash603
Went there. All it did was show us how to hook it to power and ground.
Trust me we were on buyhid.com for forever.
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Originally Posted by SS_NH
Went there. All it did was show us how to hook it to power and ground.
Trust me we were on buyhid.com for forever.
Uh....

The picture directly above STEP 1 shows you exactly where to put the connector you are asking about....
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Each end plugs into a ballast, but that leaves two plugs that would normally plug into the ballasts just hanging there. Plus this had to pin connectors that the diagram didn't show.
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Originally Posted by kidcrash603
My harness dose not look like this?
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that's what I said..
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just a sec
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