Anyone ever witness HIDs wrecking the electrical system?

[S15_Silvia]

All right, so a friend of mine has an '08 Dodge Avenger, which of course has halogen (9006) bulbs in the low beams. He says he wants HIDs, so I point him to DDM Tuning, cuz I've heard good stuff about them. (also not interested in spending bazillions at 'high end' places)

They arrive, and I go ahead and plug them in to the stock harnesses. They work, but the next day he comes back with the passenger side flickering. I switch sides with the ballasts for shits and giggles, and of course the driver's side then starts flickering. Meanwhile, I have an off-brand 5000k kit sitting around, which also happens to be 9006. I replace the DDM ballast and bulb that were flickering with the off-brand and leave the other DDM on the passenger side. Fire up the lights. They go on for about half a second, then nothing. No exterior lights work, engine won't turn over, and a 'no bus' error appears in the screen under the speedo. The fuck?? Running two different HID kits throws out your whole canbus system?!

Guy gets back to me, and apparently whoever's repairing it wants $750 incl. labor. REALLY?

Edit: the part blown was the integrated power module

Edited August 19, 2010 by S15_Silvia

[Chode69]

my friend Paul had a ford contour that gave him nothing but issues when he put in his HIDs....i cant remember for the life of me what it was but it was some crazy shit...also a lot of dodges need a relay put in to stop the flickering....my Durangho did that til we threw in some relays...took care of that quick

[BeatBox]

i had one of the ballast flickering bc it was bad i sent i back, so while it was out to be replaced i ran the ddm tuning HID bulbs with some different ballast for two wks with no problem. got the ddm ballast back yesterday changed back the ballast to ddm tuning's and everything is GOOD TO GO !

[Stephen]

factory hid ftw

[Chode69]

factory hid ftw

yea considering every vehicle has that option :rollseyes:

[S15_Silvia]

He doesn't want me paying for the repairs, but I feel a little like I should. Ah well, I'll just make it standard procedure to throw in a relay harness in all my HID installs from now on.

Now, on my future TSX with factory HIDs...hmmm

[UnderLoK]

my friend Paul had a ford contour that gave him nothing but issues when he put in his HIDs....i cant remember for the life of me what it was but it was some crazy shit...also a lot of dodges need a relay put in to stop the flickering....my Durangho did that til we threw in some relays...took care of that quick

Sorry to take this OT, but my 99 SVT Contour was hands down my favorite car ever.

[Stephen]

yea considering every vehicle has that option :rollseyes:

you can put hid's on an economy car its still an economy car. honestly halogen is right with HID now, that is unless you have to have blue bulbs and glare.

but obviously you did something wrong to kill or trip something.

[Bigg Boy]

What part of ny are you from? Did you do the key dance to check for codes?

[Autruche]

My roommate's BMW went all goofy with it plugged into the stock harnesses, just buy a relay harness (also known as a battery harness) and wire that up with the instructions. If there are still flicker problems get an anti flicker capacitor. If there are problems with the car you need to get "error correcting" capacitors. You just basically plug them into the unused side and it registers as if there was current draw from both sides and stops the car from going goofy.