Projector not working

01N3ON · Post by **01N3ON** » Fri May 15, 2009 11:05 pm

Hello.

I just installed my new bulbs (10000k xenon from ebay) on my ebay projector headlights less than a week ago. I have had the projector headlights since august of last year. The driver side dim light does not work at all but the passenger side one works just fine. The brights work on both headlights. I have tried replacing the bulb twice but it didn't help. I am now stuck with only one headlight working as it should. The LEDs work and so do the angel eyes. Just the driver side dim doesn't work. I couldn't find any loose wires or any shorts in the wires. Where do I go from here to get it working???

Thanks for any help!!

Daniel

There are the exact headlights I ordered:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/00-02-DO ... 240%3A1318

jT · Post by jT » Sat May 16, 2009 4:07 am

if you have HIDs and one is not working, it has nothing to do with the projectors...

or are you talking about fake xenon-like halogen bulbs that try to mimic the color?

if you have HID, and only one is not working... it's probably the ballast on that side..... make sure the power line is connected good......

swap it onto the passenger side and see if the ballast works there... then you know its the power line on the drivers side

if it still doesnt work then the ballast is done for

Post by **occasional demons** » Sat May 16, 2009 7:52 am

Check your fuses (inside car) IIRC, the lowbeams each have their own fuse. The highbeams are tied together and a relay switches them.

jT · Post by jT » Sat May 16, 2009 11:35 am

occasional demons wrote:Check your fuses (inside car) IIRC, the lowbeams each have their own fuse.

except he said one of them works.... there isnt a fuse for left and a fuse for right, is there?

01N3ON · Post by **01N3ON** » Sat May 16, 2009 12:56 pm

They are the colored halogen bulbs. I think they were 14.98 a pair. I checked the fuses and they are fine. I have no clue of where to go from there...

Daniel

Post by **occasional demons** » Sat May 16, 2009 6:21 pm

jT wrote:
occasional demons wrote:Check your fuses (inside car) IIRC, the lowbeams each have their own fuse.
except he said one of them works.... there isnt a fuse for left and a fuse for right, is there?

Yes.

01N3ON · Post by **01N3ON** » Sun May 17, 2009 10:34 am

Okay I honestly don't get it. The original bulb works in it but NONE of the other four blue bulbs work...just in this socket. They work in all of the other sockets. Makes no sense. So I guess I should just go to the old halogen bulbs?? It has power going to it but the bulb has to be in the socket to ground, which it isn't grounding hence the fact that it isnt working. Any way to get them to conduct with the ground?

Daniel

jetas · Post by **jetas** » Sun May 17, 2009 2:46 pm

check the grounds on the core support??