RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/20/2007 11:25:30 AM
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otnietdehoooo
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i dont think the projectors will use a 9006 lowbeam bulb. from the pics of drperry's it looks like his needed H1's to fit in the projectors. i dont know too much about the projectors so maybe some more people will be able to answer all your questions. but definately buy the projectors before the HIDs. my brother in law ordered HIDs and projectors for his Jetta, the HIDs came right away but the company he ordered the projectors from was out of stock and a month or two later, they finally sent them. it turns out the projector uses a different bulb than the HIDs he bought. its too late to return the bulbs so hes just gonna have to buy another set of HIDs
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/20/2007 12:42:08 PM
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My buddy has installed them BUT not on a blazer. He has them on his dodge.
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/20/2007 1:08:54 PM
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drperry
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The projectors will use your current 9005 headlights... And come with H1 bulbs for the low beams...
Most likely, anyway.
As for hurting the halos... Mine still work great! And they've been like that for a few months now...
To get the HID's to fit in the projectors, you're probably going to have to do some trimming... I hope you've got a dremel! lol
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/20/2007 8:55:21 PM
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The pic of the headlights on the ebay page show a bulb in the highbeam housing in the middle of the halo. That's the 9005 highbeam bulb I have now? The low beam housing is the reflector housing or the halo socket? The lows go on the outside in the reflector housing, correct? Did yours come with the H1 bulbs needed?
See, now these have the halos around the low beam bulb and the ones that I am looking at have the halos around the high beam bulb. I like the halo around the high beam bulb because the fact that I don't have the high beams on all the time and can have the halos on with the low beam bulbs at night. How do you wire up the halos as the DRL's or can you?
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/21/2007 3:35:27 AM
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drperry
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Mine came with bulbs for the projectors, which were H1s... I think it's probably the same base company that makes them...
It will probably use your current highbeams, and come with it's own lowbeams.
And I'm sure there's a way to rig the halos to come on with the DRL's... or at least wire it into an ignition controlled wire, and it'll be the equivalent... pretty much, lol. You just won't be able to shut them off without shutting off the truck.
Though, it'd be much easier to wire them into the park lamps, or signal lights...
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/21/2007 4:03:23 AM
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i got the relay installed today. from what i can tell, it helps. before the relay, every now and then only one light would turn on or sometimes neither of the lights turned on. after the relay, i tried it and they both came on. about 10 minutes later i tried it again and they both came on. i keep running outside every 15 min or so to check and they both turn on. the relay goes from a single headlight harness and plugs into both ballasts. that way when one headlight is on, both are on. the relay draws power directly from the battery instead of running power through the stock wiring harness.
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Are your daytime running lights your highbeams or lows?
Mine were the highbeams... I know it worked after I did the DRL mod under the hood, and it brought my highbeam DRL's back...
my DRL's are my high beams at half power.
when i tried the quadbeam mod, i followed Kyle's How-to step by step but it didnt work. its not that big of deal though, i rarely use my highbeam.
i recently disabled the automatic headlights and i like it better with manual control
It's good to hear your HID's are running fine now. RELAY KIT FTW!!!!!!! lol
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/21/2007 4:12:01 AM
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drperry
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Yeah, but I still had to take my relay out 
It's the quadbeam mod that did it, lol.
I've got a good idea how to fix it, too... just gotta run wires to the headlight switch... and I can my quadbeam relay to power the HID's, as I'll just use the headlight switch itself to trip the relay... Then the lowbeams are independant of the highbeam control stick...
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/21/2007 7:05:43 AM
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You should do a How To.
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/21/2007 1:43:51 PM
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drperry
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If I get a warm enough day, so I'm not in the garage freezing my nuts off while doing it, that's what I'll do, lol.
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/23/2007 12:54:17 PM
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drperry
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I can't help but think, those look familiar somehow
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/24/2007 2:41:29 PM
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drperry
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Update:
The white wire on the headlight switch plug is the one used to turn on the headlights...
Now I've got my HID's on a relay controlled by the switch, and totally bypassed the BCM.
I've got quadbeams, and I don't have to worry about possibly melting the multi-function switch anymore.
The highbeams are still controlled by the control stick, so the flash to pass feature, as well as regular highbeams stay on... Since my lows are no longer BCM controlled... They're always on, as long as my switch is in the proper postion.
Sweet.
Edit: Okay, so the white wire on the back of the switch appears to give power to the lowbeam DRL's as well... Bloody lights came on when I popped the e-brake off...
Gonna do some more digging.
Edit 2: Also, my HID's are brighter than they were running on the factory wiring... Overkill 12 guage wires will do that, I guess, lol.
< Message edited by drperry -- 12/24/2007 11:00:13 PM >
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/27/2007 2:33:03 PM
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Aha! Finally got it to work!
Low beams turn on ONLY when I turn the headlight switch on.
Highbeams come on and lowbeams stay on.
Instead of splicing into the white wire on the back of the headlight switch, you need to cut it, and run the side from the switch to a relay for the lowbeams...
And the side that goes back into the wiring harness needs to go to a SWITCHED 12 volt source, otherwise you'll have no highbeams, because this wire trips the relay that lets you use headlights. If you hook it to a constantly hot wire, then you'll have a permanent .2 amp draw on your battery + whatever is drawn normally.
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/27/2007 9:37:52 PM
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otnietdehoooo
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Update:
The white wire on the headlight switch plug is the one used to turn on the headlights...
Now I've got my HID's on a relay controlled by the switch, and totally bypassed the BCM.
I've got quadbeams, and I don't have to worry about possibly melting the multi-function switch anymore.
The highbeams are still controlled by the control stick, so the flash to pass feature, as well as regular highbeams stay on... Since my lows are no longer BCM controlled... They're always on, as long as my switch is in the proper postion.
Sweet.
Edit: Okay, so the white wire on the back of the switch appears to give power to the lowbeam DRL's as well... Bloody lights came on when I popped the e-brake off...
Gonna do some more digging.
Edit 2: Also, my HID's are brighter than they were running on the factory wiring... Overkill 12 guage wires will do that, I guess, lol.
your DRL's are lowbeams? i also noticed slightly brighter lights when i installed the wiring relay for the HIDs. they got their power directly from the battery instead of through the switch.
i disabled the auto headlights and i like it much better when i have control over my lows being on or off. i dont know if it would be worth it to attempt the quad beam mod. it seems rather difficult.
i'm thinking about maybe getting more HIDs for oem foglights. it looks dumb when i have them on with the lows because its two completely different colors
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/28/2007 2:36:23 AM
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drperry
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No, my DRL's were the highbeams... But as soon as I did the whole relay thing for the low beams, using the same method you did, but with the quadbeam mod, my low beams came on as DRL's.
I never noticed until I closed everything up, because I always had the e-brake on, lol.
But now I've got it licked, and it's actually not all that difficult to do the quadbeam mod, and still have the relay for the low beams, with no DRL's... Now that I know how to do it, lol.
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/28/2007 6:16:38 AM
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You guys with the cheap no name branded HID's, how's it going? Everything still working great?
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RE: anyone instaled HID head lights on a blazer - 12/28/2007 6:22:20 AM
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drperry
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So far so good...
They still fire like new! lol
I'll give y'all an update after another -40 stretch, and see if they can keep up.
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