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Old Mar 4, 2016 | 12:12 PM
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Those are 3000k hids, I originally took the kit from my 05 and threw it in to this one, shortly after one of the bulbs burnt out, and while waiting for new ones to come in, I threw some 5000k bulbs in that I had lying around, and now it's been nothing but a corrosion/connection nightmare on the relay harness, ballasts and bulbs.

There's more pics of my truck on my Instagram which is the same username.
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Old Mar 14, 2017 | 04:27 PM
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How did you seal up the dust cap? It's so flimsy I'm not sure what to do, I just did a projector retrofit
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Old Mar 15, 2017 | 09:38 AM
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The reason that this is happening is because the BCM does not send a consistent 12 volts to the headlights. The voltage has peaks and valleys which the HID ballast does not like. It had to see on a regular volt meter but if you had an oscilloscope you would see the actual current going to the lights. Halogens don't care about this so you never notice it but HID's are soooooo picky. as mentioned by another poster get a Relay Harness and a smoothing capacitor and you'll never have an issue. I always suggest the Morimoto relay as its really high quality. https://www.theretrofitsource.com/co...relay-h11.html AND https://www.theretrofitsource.com/co...itor-link.html

I guarantee that within a very short period of time you will get people starting to flash you because of your lights. I would suggest looking into getting retrofit headlights. Best option if your not comfortable with doing it yourself is get a set of Anzo's. The cut off isn't the greatest but their better than HID is a reflective halogen housing.
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