artie93

Mods I know wrong forum but I need an answer as soon as possible. SO my hid kit stopped working the other day and after messing with it pulling the bumper off I found out I blew a fuse so i replaced the fuse let it sit and have not drove it since. Tonight i went out and sure enough 5 minutes into my drive it blew again. So i changed it and ive blown 3 fuses tonight and the headlight wont even turn on. I checked all the connections and cleaned them the other day I'm lost. I even switched the ground and everything. What do I do, I do alot of night driving because of work and cant really afford to not have my lights working. Its a prolumen kit just the low beam if that helps. thanks in advance

kon-yue

do you have the right fuses?

artie93

while im running the same fuses as before i have not changed them

sky0901

try changing to 20 fuse instead of 10 or 15

07Ex

Are you sure there is no short in any of the wires somewhere?

Cynikal.Mindset

yea, good advice...lets melt wires and cause a fire

mooshu

i've ran 20 amp fuse in my harness for 5 years and no fires yet!

fingolfin

yah, upgrading the amp's on the fuse should help. I've done it before as well, its not that big of a deal.

but if it blows after 5 minutes you probably have a short somewhere

rodster84

it could be the ballast. i had the same problem to my driver's side, so i changed my fuse to a 15amp, it blew and then to a 20amp. as i turned it on...the light started to flicker and my ballast started to smoke...luckly for me my brother had a couple lying around ..

mooshu

I guess if you get the cheap kits, thats what you got to expect.
You'll never have a problem with OEM ballasts.

94exr

are you running this off the stock headlight harness? if so this is fairly common..you should get the relay harness that hooks up directly to your battery and just uses one headlight plug as the on/of switch drawing no insane amounts of power it from it anymore

fingolfin

that's a very good point...

Roll_outz

This absolutely right idea. buy some HID's harneses. your stock harnes can't hold the amps for the hid's ballast.

Buddah

I've never had this problem before. The fuse for my car is 20 amps but, in the instructions, it asks to use a 10 amp fuse as provided by the kit. I never changed the fuse - I'm still using the 20 amp fuse as what the car came with. It's been 2 years with the same kit and no problems yet.