WTF! why did my ballast go out

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Dec 8, 2009 | 08:17 PM
  #1  
agh freakin rain. before i upgraded to my 06 heads about 5 months ago, i had to replace my driver side ballast because it had gone off on me. now, after yesterdays rain, my passenger wont turn on. i removed the headlight to inspect it and sure enough, when i took off the ballast, there was a small puddle -______-. im trying to blow dry the air off my ballast but i dont think thatll do it. what i dont understand is, everything in my headlight is sealed. all the water caps are intact, how the hell does water still get in here?
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Dec 8, 2009 | 09:12 PM
  #2  
Your ballast is still fine. It happened to me few months ago when i had a cracked headlight. Just dry the ballast good and it will work again.
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Dec 8, 2009 | 10:03 PM
  #3  
yeah mine had to dry for like 2-3 weeks and it came back on
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Dec 8, 2009 | 10:14 PM
  #4  
lol holy cow. 2-3 weeks? i blew dry them for 10 minutes and they worked

does anyone know why this happens though?
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Dec 9, 2009 | 01:17 AM
  #5  
You're in for a week! Huge change of rain the majority of this week in LA.
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Dec 9, 2009 | 10:34 AM
  #6  
I mean why do you think it happened? Lol its a simple answer.

You have a crack in your headlight somewhere where water enters in from.

You will have to find where water is entering in from, and seal it.
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Dec 9, 2009 | 04:36 PM
  #7  
^ lol it doesn't rain that much in CA does it?

it rains every other day here in Vancouver, BC.

actually, we've been lucky there hasn't been snow yet.
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