My HID showed up today. I had about 1.5 hours before we were leaving and figured I’d throw them in (got pretty good at getting the headlights in/out, I can change bulbs in a few minutes). Got the drivers side out, swapped in the bulb, drilled the dust cover, mounted the ballast, plugged everything in aaaaaaaaaand no light. Unplugged everything replugged everything, no light. Decided to check one of the innovated ballast, aaaaaaand no light. Tried the other hylux ballast, nothing. Disconnected the bulb, plugged the innovated bulb in to the hylux ballast and it fired immediately. I was getting frustrated as hell at this point because I’m now 45 minutes into a 10 minute job and running out of time. Plug the Morimoto bulb back in and nothing. I was ready to break something at this point as At this point, I had about 10 minutes before we needed to leave and one headlight all jacked up and can’t drive my truck.
Out of curiosity, I flipped the plug inside the housing and it fired right up. So, my frustration and question now is, what moron makes a silver wire the negative and black wire a friggin positive??? In order for the bulb to fire, the silver wire on the bulb had to go to negative and the black wire to the positive side of the headlight housing plug. Luckily nothing got fried in the multiple times I tried to fire it with the wires reversed. To say I’m a touch aggravated is an understatement.
Now I can’t drive my truck tonight, and since we won’t be getting home
Till probably 10:30-11:00, I won’t be able to get it all finished till sometime tomorrow. And I need to shim the bulb because the hotspot is a little wonky.
Here’s hoping for a better review once I get them both in.
