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#24 ·
99fabtechdrango said:
the silverstars are "allegedly" the brightest street legal halogens you can buy. i have piaa's in my dur and they are definately brighter than the silverstars but also $30 more and the piaa's are "for offroad use only". in the case of headlights im gonna have to stick with the "to each his own" theory
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I had the PIAAs in my Eclipse and loved them. Just not the price tag. Not that the HIDs were any cheaper but they were supposed to last longer. I may go back down that route again. I really did like them.
 
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I MAY HAVE JUST SOLVED MY PROBLEM!!! :woot:

so i go back into my ebay history and find the store i bought em from, and look up and identical kit to which i bought and read the description to find:

"12 months warranty on bulbs and ballasts."

and i bought these in january!!! so i messaged the guy and hopefully will get it taken care of *crosses fingers*

:banana2::banana2::banana2:
 
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2YuNg2Di said:
I MAY HAVE JUST SOLVED MY PROBLEM!!! :woot:

so i go back into my ebay history and find the store i bought em from, and look up and identical kit to which i bought and read the description to find:

"12 months warranty on bulbs and ballasts."

and i bought these in january!!! so i messaged the guy and hopefully will get it taken care of *crosses fingers*

:banana2::banana2::banana2:
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Sweet. Good luck man. Hope it works out for ya.
 
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she speeks engrish grood...does this seem fair? they are in china and it arrived originally in 2 days.


Hello my friend,
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By the way,would you please confirm us your full name and phone number so that we can make the shipping correctly.
Thank you very much,waiting your reply,
Becky
 
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sounds like becky will love u long time...



lol
 
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washy wash time
 
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2YuNg2Di said:
well, i took a look and im thinking the ballast is dead. when i turn em on, i can hear the driver's "humming" as it warms up, but the passenger's is silent...halogens work fine, but they wont cut it as a replacement...

everything is connected and i un-plugged it (used the 'ol Nintendo technique :jester) and plugged it all back up. no difference...

i think i still have my old halogens...ill prolly swap em till i decide what to do.
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You can switch the ballasts around? Switch the ballasts and see if your "dead" ballast powers up the other head light, and if your "working" ballasts fires up the other light, then you'll know if it's a bulb, or a ballasts.

As mentioned earlier, when I switched to a digital ballasts, I no longer had the problem your explaining. I used to have to flick my lights on and off a few times to get them to both work. Sometimes it would take minutes for them to both work, and sometimes I was stuck with 1, and sometimes with NONE, really annoying. I switched to new ballasts, and VROOOOOOOM, no problem for 2-3 years!
 
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2YuNg2Di said:
well, i took a look and im thinking the ballast is dead. when i turn em on, i can hear the driver's "humming" as it warms up, but the passenger's is silent...halogens work fine, but they wont cut it as a replacement...

everything is connected and i un-plugged it (used the 'ol Nintendo technique :jester) and plugged it all back up. no difference...

i think i still have my old halogens...ill prolly swap em till i decide what to do.
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You are experiencing voltage drop. Took me a month to figure it out.
Just rev the motor above 2k rpm and your lights will come on simultaneously all the time. Guess its a feature of the ****** HIDS.
 
Discussion starter · #33 ·
i swapped the ballasts and the good one lit up the passenger bulb, and the dead one didnt light up the drivers. so i messaged the ebay store and paid the shipping, so they are sending me a replacement.

ill have to try the rev thing, how does that work anyways? cuz i turned my headlights on (HIDS) and drove home to find only one working when this first happened, i had to have revved higher than 2k sometime, but maybe not...thanks for the tip. if it DOES fix it, ill have a replacement ballast for the future to swap if i need it.
 
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Hard choice, $25 bucks or another 125ish for a new set from them. :jester:


You should get stock lights to caress Caulk's balls though. :D



How do you have yours hooked up? I'm curious to why you have had such an issue. :huh:
 
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Fluffy said:
Hard choice, $25 bucks or another 125ish for a new set from them. :jester:


You should get stock lights to caress Caulk's balls though. :D



How do you have yours hooked up? I'm curious to why you have had such an issue. :huh:
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Instructions from realdeal make sense?
 
#37 ·
Was the ? about only the old style electro having these problems? Cause I was thinkin' bout getting Hids but if they are doing that I'll just stick w/ what I got (which sucks) but I've heard of the silverstars melting the 1pc headlights.
 
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Fluffy said:
Hard choice, $25 bucks or another 125ish for a new set from them. :jester:


You should get stock lights to caress Caulk's balls though. :D



How do you have yours hooked up? I'm curious to why you have had such an issue. :huh:
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they are $96 shipped. and they only reason i had problems was a) when i first hooked em up, the passenger side bulb 'popped' and stopped working cuz i had the battery hooked up (my fault, yea) prolly screwed up the ballast right off the bat and i had to take it to the dealership to get it fixed; and b) i put the plug to the ballast in backwards, also my fault, but there werent instructions, and realdeals pointed the opposite direction IIRC.
 
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2YuNg2Di said:
i swapped the ballasts and the good one lit up the passenger bulb, and the dead one didnt light up the drivers. so i messaged the ebay store and paid the shipping, so they are sending me a replacement.

ill have to try the rev thing, how does that work anyways? cuz i turned my headlights on (HIDS) and drove home to find only one working when this first happened, i had to have revved higher than 2k sometime, but maybe not...thanks for the tip. if it DOES fix it, ill have a replacement ballast for the future to swap if i need it.
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read closely... you turn the vehicle on.. rev the motor over 2k THEN turn the HIDs on.
 
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