hey, i recently bought a pair of 8000k light bulbs from someone off the forums. I installed them and i like them etc etc. occasionally one of the lights goes out. it stays off for a day or so, but it comes back after much irritation. any ideas what that could be? any help guys? i dont really wanna go back to stock lights

 

try switching the bulbs from the left to the right.

if the problem still excists then it's the bulb, but if you switch the bulbs and the same thing happens but to the other bulb instead, maybe it's your ballasts that's starting to go poo-poo, but then if your ballasts were acting up, then your old stock bulbs would of done the same thing. (wow, what a long run-on sentence lol)

anywho, your best bet is just to swap the 8000K bulbs. good luck!

-WaLLy

 

thanks alot, its just a PITA to change the bulbs, i just wish our headlights were easy like BMW's. just pop the hood and you have access to the headlight.

 

no problem. keep us posted to see what the outcome was. im pretty sure this info will come in handy to someone someday.

 

ok so i pulled out the bulb and saw that the bulb was broken. reallly pissed me off. sooo as i was pissed off, I attempted to put the OEM ones back in as I was upset I put the bulb back in...voila it didnt work. checked the bulb, and because of my anger I broke that one as well. as you can tell the anger isnt helping, and yes, i broke the other one as well.....any suggestions? should i put stock broken ones in and take it to the dealer saying they stopped working?

 

post pics of the thing you say it's broken... and did your 8000K actual bulb break or a piece of the headlight unit break?

 

the small part on the right part broke. it kind of split and is loose now.

 

in this case, its the blue part, mine is brown but im assuming same thing

 

so the brown strip broke off??

and in anger did you happen to break the stock OEM bulbs too? gotta be careful with stuff like this man

 

hhhmmm from reading your earlier post, maybe you did break the OEM bulbs too...

lets see, you have an '04, you didnt upgrade to the 06 housings did you?

 

hey
I WAS SO WRONG. it seemed as if the brown strip was completely broken, but they were just loose and cracked. I though that would be the problem. I took it to dealer who did nothing "because it was in an accident" went to the body shop who fixed my car and told them. Waited 3 hours for them to figure it out and finally figured it was the control module connected behind the light. so the bulbs were working fine. now i gotta wait 2 days until they ship the part and to install it. Shouldnt a body shop fix everything the first time you go there?? man im angry

 

be happy its getting sorted out

and i can see you're always angry lol

 

im an angry child....what can i say?? im only happy when my G is running perfectly and its perfect .....

 

lol everything will be alright

 

Dude, my driver's side HID just went out... I'm not happy -_-'' I don't look foward to opening up the bumper =T