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Old 05-22-09, 09:53 PM
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I'm trying to see if anyone has had this same problem. I have had a hard time with my Passenger side fog light (H.I.D) not coming on I have to switch it on and off like 4 or 5 times. I have changed the bulb and amplifier even different brands of H.I.D's and even my drivers side which always comes on. Seeing if this is a known problem, and if so is there a fix?
Old 05-22-09, 10:44 PM
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are you saying your passenger side never comes on? have you tried swapping (left and right) the bulbs / ballasts?

if so, i have a feeling the polarity of your ballast is flipped on the passenger side
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The passenger side will come on but i have to turn the fog lights off and on like 3 or 4 times for it to come on
Old 05-25-09, 07:56 AM
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Anyone?????????
Old 05-25-09, 09:10 AM
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Seems to me you have one of those cheap hid kits that are sold on ebay. I've had the same problem on my old GS. One side would work fine, the other one would not. I have changed like 5 hid kits and all them either died after sometime or worked the way you have described.

The best advice I can give you, is to buy a normal set of HID ballasts made by Denso. The only problem you will have with these ballasts, is that they come with D2S/R sockets, you will have to convert those to 9006. You can either do the conversion yourself or buy a converter on ebay, it will look like this


Oh and in case you are wondering how the ballast look:


These are made for Toyota/Lexus cars.

Good luck
Old 05-25-09, 08:03 PM
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the hids i got are xenon no offline crap paid like 200.00 for them i know a couple people have this same brand no problems. but like i said i tried different brand bulbs and amps still same thing drivers side always works
Old 05-26-09, 05:28 AM
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I would say your problem is the fog light relay. You probably had a bad ballast in there and now the ralay is damage and only works sometimes.
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Are you using a relay harness? Where did you get your kit from? Maybe go back to get it covered under warranty??
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maybe the plug isnt in super tight.. i had that problem and had to just tighten it some more into the stock plug...
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Sometimes there is a bad or dirty connection somewhere causing the ballast to not get enough voltage to ignite. For instance on an old car of mine, the end where the ground attached to chassis, on the oem harness was old and dirty. Cleaned up the ground point and all was good. Voltage at the plug was at only 9 or 10 volts before I cleaned the ground.
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Thanks for all your input once it stops raining (good ole Florida) ill check some of these tips out.
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