A very common problem with a failing ballast. With a almost fourteen year old vehicle original parts begin to fail.
I had a similar problem with my previous 06 G35 6speed. One of the reasons I traded it in for my previous 2012 G37S.
If you want to drive very old vehicles be prepared to spend $$$ replacing parts that fail.

Telcoman

 

Wrong. Cheap LED burns out drivers all the time. The majority of this stuff for sale on eBay anyways. HID from proper companies is lasting almost the life of the vehicle.

Creative.

Truth. Buy another Matsushita ballast and expect another 15 years!

 

Lol telcoman's answer for everything is "buy a new vehicle".

 

A high quality xenon HID lasts about 9k hours, a high quality LED lasts 35k+ hours. It's not a fair comparison to match high end HID vs trash-tier led kits The ballast or driver is always going to be the weakest component but comparing two high end pieces of equipement the construction will be similar, heat generation similar, lifespan of the ballast or driver will be similar.

 

Well he's not wrong, it's just not a viable solution for a lot of folks though.

 

Nahhhhh I believe in fixing things instead of buying new things. Maybe that's because I do all my work and I'm kind of cheap *** lol. To each its own!

 

I do both, my wife's vehicle is usually a new (or under new car warranty) vehicle, but that's mostly because between side auto projects, house projects, etc I don't typically have a lot of extra time to spend on repairs. If something breaks on her car we drive or tow it to the dealership and they give us a rental.

I've also been in the position where I owned 3 vehicles and literally all of them broke down at the same time and I had to RENT a vehicle for a couple weeks, that sucked, with the new car warranty I'll never have to worry about that again.

 

Now that sucks royally, luckily me and wife can get to work by train because it's within walking distance so that eases my mind a bit lol.

 

Yeah this was like a (EDIT: time flies, this was about 15 years ago) but first our Camry was stolen, got in a low speed chase with the cops and was wrapped around a fencepost. It was quite a few years old so I didn't carry full coverage on it because it mostly just sat in the driveway as a backup vehicle so the insurance didn't cover the theft or damages which was a bent bumper and a fencepost through the oilpan which I later repaired.

A day later the Sierra blew the radiator AND water pump at the same time, I didn't watch the temp close enough (driving home on the highway) and the temp spiked and warped one head.

Two days after that our Suburban blew it's transmission.

So I rented a car for a couple weeks while I ripped the Vortech 6000 apart in the truck, had the head planed and put in a new thermostat/water pump/radiator. Not fun and expensive when you have to scramble for repairs. Then I tore into the camry and ended up just re-using the existing oil pan, hammered it to about the right shape and welded the rips in the metal shut. I was pretty strapped for cash by that point so I had to do it on the cheap, bumper had a giant dent in it for a few months. Now that 2 of the vehicles were running again I had time to pull the Suburban's TH 700R4 apart and rebuilt it.

 

Fair enough! Just to get a quality Led Kit that works requires complete retrofitting which is outside the budget of most people.

 

That happened to me last feb. 2 vehicles isn't even enough for me. Crazy. That's why you've gotta have a daily!