bulb or ballast?

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Old 02-15-2015, 04:52 PM
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bulb or ballast?

So i changed my driver side low beam hidhelp light on my 2006 acura rl about a month ago and it worked fine up until earlier today. Had no changing of color just went out without warning. Once i turned the lights on and off i could see a flicker for aboit 2 seconds then back to nothing. Has anyone else had this problem or know a solution. Plz help
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What kind of bulb did you replace it with? You could move it over to the other side to see if it is the bulb or ballast/ignitor.
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to trouble shoot; take the problem bulb and switch it to the other side.

if problem follows, its bulb.
if problem doesnt follow, continue troubleshooting by switching ballast to other side.

by process of elimination; you'll find out which one is the culprit
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