Acurazine members,

I posted a few months ago that my 2004 TL has a blown headlight. I need to buy new set of of HID Bulbs. So I am wondering if you all can suggest a site were I can buy them. Please include a link directly to the bulb. I want to spend less the 100 bucks on both. I've been driving with my one working light and am running my fogs so that I can at least have visability on both sides. Please help, i'm not to good with buying stuff for my TL online, and am afraid I will buy the wrong thing. As far a installing I will attempt to remove my bumper to install these bulbs once I get them. Thanks for all you help.



JS

 

5000k Kaixen OE Replacement, $100 from Excelerate

http://store.excelerateperformance.c.../i-236445.aspx

 

Go to this link- http://www.hidextra.com/HID+Bulbs/D2...f66ca5276af66a

They are $35 for both! Come with a warranty and use this promo code "tenpercentoff-w" to get an extra 10% off! These are for 6000K color, the other colors are on the left side of the page

 

The bulbs usually dont go bad before the ballasts, I'd check to see if the fuses are good and then check to make sure that the ballast and ignitor are good.

 

What fuse am I checking??
And how do I check the ballast?? Do I still have to take off the bumper to do that??

JS

 

Same thing happens to my car. It would be great if someone can give us some more informations on how to correctly diagnose this problem. Thanks

 

 

Glad you find humor in my ignorance.

JS

 

Udoit 2?
Idoit as well, but then again I'm an idiot 2
Sorry, couldn't resist and sorry,I don't know what to tell you about your lights problem
And yes, I'm bored

 

swap the bulbs left to right and see if they work the same
Bulb life is about 2000 hours of use and they start to dim and color shift
Wearout between 2500 and 3000 is normal

Cheap bulbs may not last long- cant tell where they were made of what quality materials

If you get moisture inside the headlight lens- that gets down and kills ballast
Must fix before replacing bulbs or ballast

 

Yeah it's super funny that idiot is spelled wrong -_-

TEEHEE


Anywho I got the Kaixen's and enjoy them but there is a bit of burn-in time before you get the correct output from the bulb.. so go with those!

 

i would agree check the ballast before you buy bulbs

 

Fuse should be in the fuse box and relays are under the hood. To test the ballast you'd have to have the bumper and the headlights off the car. Swap the ballast and ignitor over from the good headlight to the bad one and see if it works, if it does then your fuses/relays are good but either the ballast, ignitor or both are bad on the headlight that is giving you trouble.

At this point take the ignitor from the bad headlight and swap it with the good ignitor/ballast, turn on the headlight, if the headlight work then both your ignitors are good but one of the ballast is bad. Repeat the same process with the ballast.

 

The most typical scenario is water getting into and shorting out the ballast.