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Old 02-14-2010, 05:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Cool Diy hid install!!! No drilling

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1. Remove the two bolts highlighted in picture and remove headlight assembly.
2.Remove Dust Cover and Remove "90 degree elbow vent" highlighted
3.Take stock bulb out twisting counter-clockwise)
4. Push bulb wires from inside out through the vent whole.
5. Put hid bulb into socked twisting clock wise(make sure to line up the three notches on is a little bigger than the other two.)
6.Push the control wires for the ballast through the vent whole from outside in.
7.Connect the wired from the ballast control to the stock harness(the two yellow wires) mine was the negative on the bottom.
8. Make sure everything is secure and put the dust cap on.
9. Make all of your connections and slide headlight back into place and secure using the two bulbs
10. Mount the ballast(i mounted my driver side on the "bumper beam" and it looks good..you can mount wherever its away from heat and spinning moving parts.
11. Make sure everything works haha
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Old 04-03-2010, 12:54 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Wow dude, well done!
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Old 04-03-2010, 01:03 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Nice job. Which HID kit was that?
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Old 04-03-2010, 05:41 AM   #4 (permalink)
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im swaping out my 6000k bulbs with 10000k and putting a high beam Hid kit in next week hopefully. looks good tho! thanks for the detailed pics
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Old 05-22-2010, 10:47 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I have stock lights and want HID ..If i buy a HID conversion kit off of EBAY... what Does the kit need to include?also what color would you recomend????
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Old 05-22-2010, 11:30 AM   #6 (permalink)
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2 ballasts, 2 H11 bulbs, and necessary wiring. this is just a picture i took when i got my kit in.
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Old 05-22-2010, 12:22 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Nice I like how you found away around drilling a hole anyplace..
thanks for sharing this with the class
now you got me thinking about doing this mod
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Old 05-23-2010, 07:25 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Wow this is good info man, it's kinda confuseing from the pics, can't make up whats what but wow, it's good stuff
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Old 05-25-2010, 06:56 PM   #9 (permalink)
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did you take off the connectors to get them through that hole??
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Old 05-25-2010, 10:44 PM   #10 (permalink)
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What did you do with the stock harness, did you leave it in its place? Did you use the relays with the HID kit also?
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Old 05-26-2010, 10:06 AM   #11 (permalink)
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I ended up drilling. that hole is SMALL! I just got frustrated...
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Old 08-12-2010, 09:19 PM   #12 (permalink)
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where did you get your hid kit?
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Old 08-12-2010, 09:30 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I also tried this but then I realized that I prefer not doing it because the Heat generated by the Bulb needs to get out fast otherwise you`ll get to much heat inside and your Lens Protector will get Yellow sooner of get Blurred faster.. so thats why I preffered the drill and just covered the drilled hole with some silicoon..

Also wanted to put some air hole into the Fog lights but dont know where...its airtight but it really needs some air vents....
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Old 08-14-2010, 12:34 PM   #14 (permalink)
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How/where did you guys mount your ballasts? I used double sided tape (just did it yesterday. Kinda worried it might not hold. The passengers side is onto of the washer fluid box because it kept falling off the side wall. The drivers side is on a metal bar below and in front of the battery.
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Old 09-02-2010, 06:50 PM   #15 (permalink)
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as several other asked where did you get your kit? DDM?
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