Highest wattage bulb you've run in stock housing

jbogden · Post by **jbogden** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:44 pm

Trying to get a feeler on how the housings are going to hold up in the stock '00 housings...I will be running a 80/110w hella bulb.
I run these in my excursion and motorcycle(plastic housings with custom harnesses with no issues after a yr+)
In my old 96 taurus I had I saw some yellowing after 6-8 months...but those housings are known for that anyway..

what have you run?

cgneon · Post by **cgneon** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:27 am

i dont think the housings are the main concern when using higher wattage bulbs.. its the wiring harness that isnt designed for them so it may not happen right away but you could melt your wiring down the road.. but you say ur using a custom harness so.. what im sayin has no relevence........

jbogden · Post by **jbogden** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:31 am

cgneon wrote:i dont think the housings are the main concern when using higher wattage bulbs.. its the wiring harness that isnt designed for them so it may not happen right away but you could melt your wiring down the road.. but you say ur using a custom harness so.. what im sayin has no relevence........

yup, made my own harness, only thing thats factory that will see a higher draw is about an inch as it goes into the pluf at the headlight..I'll be all good there...

we'll have to wait and see then

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:17 pm

jbogden wrote:
cgneon wrote:i dont think the housings are the main concern when using higher wattage bulbs.. its the wiring harness that isnt designed for them so it may not happen right away but you could melt your wiring down the road.. but you say ur using a custom harness so.. what im sayin has no relevence........

yup, made my own harness, only thing thats factory that will see a higher draw is about an inch as it goes into the pluf at the headlight..I'll be all good there...

we'll have to wait and see then

Good call. Your MFS would not have been a happy camper.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:57 pm

As long as you have a relay harness for them the housing should be fine.

lilnicko11 · Post by **lilnicko11** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:12 pm

true statement above

jbogden · Post by **jbogden** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:17 pm

yup...no issues there, I am almost done with the relay bank for the heads/fogs/air horns so all will be good that way, been there and had to fix that in the past on other vehicles...

01rtgurl · Post by **01rtgurl** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:43 am

ZeroChad wrote:
jbogden wrote:
cgneon wrote:i dont think the housings are the main concern when using higher wattage bulbs.. its the wiring harness that isnt designed for them so it may not happen right away but you could melt your wiring down the road.. but you say ur using a custom harness so.. what im sayin has no relevence........

yup, made my own harness, only thing thats factory that will see a higher draw is about an inch as it goes into the pluf at the headlight..I'll be all good there...

we'll have to wait and see then
Good call. Your MFS would not have been a happy camper.

Agreed.