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- Ram Year
- 2020
- Engine
- Hemi 5.7L
If you plan on using AlphaOBD to enable HID’s then you can bypass the need for any relays, harnesses, adapters, any of that extra junk. As for the mounts, that’s up to you if you want to use their preface mounts or if you want to make your own mounts, or stuff everything inside the headlight if it fits.
On that link, you don’t need anything except what’s included in the kit, you don’t need any extra adding that cost money. So just select the watt, 35w or 55w, select your bulb type (whatever the bulb type is you are replacing) then select the color temp you want the bulb to be. That’s it.
Now if you are not planning on using AlphaOBD then may god be with you lol I’m j/k but HID’s are a huge pain in our trucks. You will need to buy a different HID kit from DDM. You would need the most expensice one (I think it’s called the Ultra Canbus) and you would also need a relay harness on top of the Ultra Canbus Kit. The relay harness type is the same as the bulb type you are replacing (so if your replacing an H11 bulb you would select H11 as the bulb type for the hid bulb selection and also H11 for the harness type). With these trucks, there’s no telling if a certain brand HID kit will work with your truck. It’s either hit or miss. Take my 2012 as an example. Tons and tons of members in here run the Morimoto HID kits on their 09-18 Rams with canbus adapters or the molar spec relay and they have no issues. My truck, no matter what harness or canbus adapters I tried, the Morimoto kits would never work. I had to enable HID in AlphaOBD to finally get an HID kit to work and it ended up being a $40 kit off Amazon that worked over the Morimoto kit which still didn’t work after AlphaOBD. So for some reason my specific truck doesn’t like Morimoto HID kits.
But back on topic. I’d order that $35 hid kit and then order the MX OBD Bluetooth Adapter and buy the AlphaOBD app. It will save you money in the long run and a ton of headaches and time wasted on relays and harnesses.
PM me if you need anymore help. I build Ram headlights on a daily basis.
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