I'm Gonna Kill Sumthin'...

[MADDOG]

If you don't like rants, move along 'cause I'm gonna post one here...

While I refuse to go back to halogens and will continue to pursue a working set of HID's on my 2007, my patience and resolve has been sorely tested today.

I have installed at least 4 different individual kits and just finished with the 8th variation of a harness arrangement. Not one of those kits lasted any longer than 3 months before they came into conflict with the CanBus system and wend down. Obviously, something not quite right here with the ballasts, caps, relays or some weird combination therein. I truly had high hopes for this harness to top off the wondrous projector retro'd headlights I got from JJ.

Alas...it was not to be....

The ******* Relay Case & Connector Came Apart In My Hands!!!!

F**K me...this ****'s getting old...

 

[the codes]

damn man, iv seen you having trouble with these things for like 2 years now..damn..sorry to see them giving you so much hell

 

[Trupiano]

Well, that sucks. Have you tried contacting retro solutions and talking with a real person to see if they have any ideas?

 

[0212353]

was that on the new harness tonight man? holy frick!

I seriously think your truck hates ya!

 

[EJM05]

was that on the new harness tonight man? holy frick!

I seriously think your truck hates ya!

does it remind you of someone?

 

[(S.M.R) 101]

I feel your pain.... I can't tell you how many sets I went through with my 08 ram.... Todd from Retro Solutions must have really hated me for awhile there..

When I got my JJ lights I had to buy new harness and ballast and it lasted 3 months and a week before I traded it in on my 4th gen the headlights would come on, Flicker 2 or 3 times, and then shut off and would not stay on... That truck really hated HID's and fought me ever step of the way

 

[0212353]

06-08s can be a motherbitch at times.

 

[sullivan]

I have mastered the HID system on my 06 Ram. No issues

I have a harness the plugs into the left oem headlight harness, then from there it feeds off to either HID ballast. I have resistor inline, I can figure what resistor I have tomorrow.

 

[KGBIGCOUNTRY]

Dang, you have me worried bout the 07 shop truck's HIDs now. Dont need them failing out of state while towing the car.

 

[quietpeen]

wow that sucks

 

[MoparWild]

i have a 07 ram and i bought a hid kit as well and was having issues with my hid harness. i even bought the error cancelers. come to find out i did not need the cancelers and the harness was bs so what i did is i got a regular 5 prong relay a built my own harness and installed a 4700uf capacitor inline with the headlamp signal wire. i have had no flickering and no can bus issues. the plug and play harnesses that you get from hid companies are crap.

 

[Catchin Zs]

i have a 07 ram and i bought a hid kit as well and was having issues with my hid harness. i even bought the error cancelers. come to find out i did not need the cancelers and the harness was bs so what i did is i got a regular 5 prong relay a built my own harness and installed a 4700uf capacitor inline with the headlamp signal wire. i have had no flickering and no can bus issues. the plug and play harnesses that you get from hid companies are crap.

Yeah, but nothing from Retrosolutions is crap.

 

[MoparWild]

i know but that is not were i got mine from and i regret it. but i solved the issue . ddm tuning.

 

[MADDOG]

One more try as soon as the new relay box gets here. This kit also has a resistor based harness that goes into the passenger side OEM headlight plug which seems to be the final solution for a lot of us.

Thanks for the help last night, JJ. You rock, brother!

 

[0212353]

no problemo!

 

[MADDOG]

It works!!! No flickering, no bulbs out, no issues so far.

I do have a bit of work to do to get brights to operate in synch with the high beam switch.

Got my fingers crossed...

 

[0212353]

glad to hear!