I thought that I would post my results of alfaOBD over the last couple of weeks. I recently purchased the software and have been testing a few things, in particular the front headlights, fogs, global up/down. My truck is a 2015 sport with the projector headlights and standard halogen fogs. I have been running 35W HID’s in the projectors from diode dynamics for about 3 years, pretty much trouble free, and the stock halogen bulbs in the fogs. I have tried a couple different sets of HIDs in the fogs, and even the ones that I had no issues with out of my 2014 big horn , but they will not stay lit in this truck. They turn off after about 10-15 minutes, so I just put the halogens back in. I have also been having trouble with one of my diode dynamics low beams recently where one will occasionally turn off and I am presented with the low beam out display. Turning off the truck and and back on generally corrects this immediately.
I thought that I would try manipulating a few settings with AlfaOBD to see if this could be corrected. Unfortunately even selecting “front HID headlamps” had no effect, pro or con and I still have one light that occasionally faults out. I tried manipulating the regulated voltage for each one slightly up to 14.4V with no noticeable change so I set it back to the 14.0V setting. I also tried selecting LED fog lamps thinking that the HID fogs would stay lit and reduce some flickering, but the result was the lights flashing and turning off almost immediately and error codes coming in for each light “short to ground”. Turning LED fog lights to “no” and clearing the fault allows the fog lights to work again, but now flicker and go out after 10 minutes or so. These do have CanBUS adapters installed at each ballast as well.
So I am kind of at a loss with the lights. I have been thinking of replacing the diode dynamic HID low beams with the Hikari Ultra 9012’s, and the lower model Hikari 9006 LED’s For my fogs but don’t want to waste the money if they won’t work. Others have had better success than me, but that is what this testing is all about.
Global down works great, although I don’t really see the value, and global up does not work. High beams with fog light dropout “no” works fine.
I thought that I would try manipulating a few settings with AlfaOBD to see if this could be corrected. Unfortunately even selecting “front HID headlamps” had no effect, pro or con and I still have one light that occasionally faults out. I tried manipulating the regulated voltage for each one slightly up to 14.4V with no noticeable change so I set it back to the 14.0V setting. I also tried selecting LED fog lamps thinking that the HID fogs would stay lit and reduce some flickering, but the result was the lights flashing and turning off almost immediately and error codes coming in for each light “short to ground”. Turning LED fog lights to “no” and clearing the fault allows the fog lights to work again, but now flicker and go out after 10 minutes or so. These do have CanBUS adapters installed at each ballast as well.
So I am kind of at a loss with the lights. I have been thinking of replacing the diode dynamic HID low beams with the Hikari Ultra 9012’s, and the lower model Hikari 9006 LED’s For my fogs but don’t want to waste the money if they won’t work. Others have had better success than me, but that is what this testing is all about.
Global down works great, although I don’t really see the value, and global up does not work. High beams with fog light dropout “no” works fine.
