I recently purchaced an hid headlight kit 55w 10k white wiith a hint of blue , needed to upgrade cuz the last ones i got even on high beams was just not bright enough . So everything fit just right but when i spliced the harness from the oem ballast and put the harness from the hid kit and plugged it in nothing ?
Checked the low/high beam fuses and they were not blown so ive seem to hit a dead end can anyone help me out on what im doing wrong

 

re-check your connection and BTW RIP your HID projector.

 

FYI....10k is way more than a hint of blue...and would be why they aren't very bright.

 

10K?

You're ruining the projectors and burning the bowls with a 55W kit and that's likely why you're not getting much use out if it.

You also shouldn't have spliced anything, You should buy a proper pigtail to plug directly from the OEM output into the aftermarket HID ballast.

 

I'm sure glad I don't live anywhere near @CAM909RON, screwing with the headlights in this manner can either cause substandard lighting, which can be dangerous on the road, or exceedingly bright lighting which can blind oncoming drivers and of course, be dangerous on the road.

The above said, I don't understand why someone would want to mess with the lights on a 3G TL, these cars have some of the best lighting I've ever experienced.

 

Just ignorance. People always think higher wattage = brighter but they'll cheap out and buy subpar systems which just burns extra hot and burns the bowls thus decreasing luminosity output.

 

10000 kelvins put out way less lumens (brightness) than 4500 Kelvin!
you didn't increase brightness at all. You decreased it.

 

Not to mention that the only place that "10000K" bulbs are sold are on sites like Amazon/eBay and other ricer shops.


The fact of the matter is that 10000K bulbs are trash quality. You can get 55W good quality bulbs (take the Morimoto XB55 bulbs from TheRetrofitSource) at 5800K https://www.theretrofitsource.com/d2...to-xb-hid.html) and good quality 55W ballasts from them that will far out-perform any of those 10000K bulbs.

But also realize that with the extra wattage comes ~40% decrease in longevity. With a good quality projector, bulb, ballast setup, you don't truly need a 50/55W HID system..

 

Listen to these very knowledgeable people above me! Higher wattage with anything above 6000K does not equal "brighter" output. Yea, it will look cooler with your "super blue color" HIDs. But you will be seeing A LOT LESS. I made the mistake of switching out my OEM bulbs to 8000K bulbs 'cause I wanted to make it blue but the light output was horrible and I could barely see anything on the road. Got myself a set of OSRam CBI "~6000K" and they are night and day difference. Moral of the story? Don't cheap out on the HID bulbs. Put your OEM harness and ballasts and get yourself a set of OSRam bulbs.

 

10K and hint of blue do not belong in the same sentence...