HIDs WITHOUT a wiring harness? (Edit: I think I figured it out!!?) - read edit in first post if you already replied please

[somerandomguy]

tacomabanga1986, I already have HIDs, but they are crap.. so when I get the money I am going to get these probably, but only because of the lifetime warranty. I don't understand exactly what you mean. My harness goes into one side of the stock harness.. but like I said I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

Also, bixenon is the bulb you have.. just one bulb and the piece moves up and down to change the way it looks..

just follow directions its harder to hook them up WITH the harness. Without it you can basically look and tell how they go. I dont have any pics or vids to help but you might find one on youtube

I searched on youtube already, couldn't find anything

I am going to go take a picture right now as I am just getting more and more confused lol..

edit: here's the pic. The red arrows all go from the ballast to the bulb, or from the harness to the bulb (the arrow on the right), the purple arrows go to the battery and ground, and the blue arrow goes to one side of the stock harness. The harness also plugs into the ballast. On the harness, there is a fuse, and a little black box thing (not sure what the box is for.. the fuse isn't in it.)

On the other side it's all the same except no wire for stock harness, no positive wire, no fuse, and no black box.

If you don't have a harness.. you don't have these wires?? If you still have these wires (I would think you would..) then where do they go?

Edited March 9, 2010 by somerandomguy

[tacomabanga1986]

thats not a relay kit, its the hi/low setup, that black box has a relay in it that tells the bulb when to move in and out in either high beam or low beam, thats why there just 1, and ur hid ballasts run off that one plug with 3 prongs on it, that gives ur ballasts power and tells the relay to move the bulb out for high beam

my kit has it setup to were u have a lil ring terminal that u would ground to ground the ballast and just run power from that lil plug thing

so yea thats the high/low harness, not a relay harness there diff

a relay harness has a pos and neg wire that goes from ur battery, then has a plug that goes into your stock harness and then ur hid high/low harness plug goes into that, and it tells the hids to come on and gives em more power, it kinda bypasses the factory wires and goes str8 off the battery, it just takes current from stock plug to tell it when to turn on kinda like a remote wire

i hope this makes sence, i'll take some pics of my setup tommrow and show u what it all is and how it works if u need me too

but are u trying to figure out how they work without a relay kit or if you would need one?

you would only need one if u was going to be running a 55watt kit, bixenon doesnt really matter cause it takes so lil current to move the lil bulb back n forth all u need the power for is the bulb

i hope im helping somehow, oh, and navi what color hids do you have?

and if u have any more hid questions steven has some good websites that he goes to that has all kinds of indepth info on how hids work and what knot

[somerandomguy]

This harness DOES bypass the stock harness (except for the one that plugs into the harness)

I just looked on ddm, didn't realize that they had this as I was just going off of a link that was posted in another thread and never looked around except for the support.

http://www.ddmtuning.com/index.php?p=product&id=133&parent=94

That is the wire I have (I actually have two of them .. although I'm not completely sure where one is), ddm says it's a relay harness.

I'd love pictures of your setup, but I am confused.. do you have THIS wire or a different one or?

My main ? now is like my edit in my first post says.. you only have this wire if you order it because you need it, OR if you have hi/lo ? Right? So if you just get low beam then you don't get this unless you pay extra for it? I am guessing that the connectors on a low beam only bulb are different and (I'd love a picture here - lol) it just connects to the ballast and the stock harness and nothing else?

[somerandomguy]

Any pics of your setup?