did the conversion and the passanger side flickers at times, sometimes so bad it wont come on, all connections are correct and tight, even went with bigger fuzes, anybody have any ideas?
Not sure if I read it here or on another forum. Are your HIDS on as your DRLS? What I read was a guy was have flickering problem the solution was grounding ballast to the body of the car not the ground wire in the bulb wiring.
Not sure if this situation is remotely close to yours or not but just remember reading it and thought I would throw it out there.
disconnect you drls and you shouldnt have a problem
under your steering colum you have a box that si rectangular shaped and it has a bunch of wires going into it
cut the black and yellow wire
be careful their are 2 black and whit wires one is a 10 or 12 gauge dont cut the thicker gauge or your car wont start
if you need pics i will post them
I'm assuming you have a "plug and play" kit and using the ground provided in the bulb socket. Scratch that ground and run a ground for the ballast straight to the body. If you don't mind loosing your drl's you can try the wire cutting method and see if that works. Both are easy solutions and if it doesn't solve the issue both can be fixed without any effort. Good luck!
If you have DLR's then you get flicker when your lights are off. Something that all us Canadians have to deal with. There are a few differnt fixes already posted on this forum!
ok so when i ground it, ground it from the balasl? because when i unplugged the ground from the oem socket and tryed to ground it to car it didnt work, somehwere down the line the ground and hot cross.
disconnect you drls and you shouldnt have a problem
under your steering colum you have a box that si rectangular shaped and it has a bunch of wires going into it
cut the black and yellow wire
be careful their are 2 black and whit wires one is a 10 or 12 gauge dont cut the thicker gauge or your car wont start
if you need pics i will post them
I just did this last week-end (in the freezing cold !) and when I turn the switch off (the one you install in the how-to), your DRL are off and the HIDs don't flicker anymore. My cousin who helped me went trough 3 balasts because of is DRLs on is car so I think that for canadian P5 it's a must do before you install HIDs
Mine does that on both the Miata and the P5 at times. I am assuming its a bad ground....but usually to fix my problem, I flash my brights a few times and it resets itself....lol.
