Issues after installing DDM Slim HIDs

[jzgilbert]

So I just installed DDM slim HIDs on my 2006 mazda 3 and after finishing am noticing a couple problems.

First my fog light fuse is now making random clicking noises so I just unplugged the fuse and it stopped, I dont know if there is any problem with that though...

Second, whenever my headlights are on my doors now randomly and quite often lock when im driving (from immediately to 2 minutes gap time between relocking). and I am not quite sure what I could have done to cause it. I figure some wire got tweaked somehow but I am not quite sure what wire and where i should check.

Third, I just realized that my passenger side brake light is now out, but my tail light is not out so im pretty sure that would mean the bulb isn't burnt out. So i presume that some wire was tweaked with that as well, but again I've got no idea which wire to check for.

Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated as I'm pretty lost.. Ha

 

[spdjnke]

The DDM units are Plug & Play so I highly doubt that everything you mentioned has anything to do with it, I would say its more likely just a coincidence.

 

[jzgilbert]

Well I'm sure that it is not directly related but all three of these happened after installing my hids so someway it is related. The fog fuse only made noise when the drivers side hid was installed (didnt make it with normal lights or the passenger side hid). And before my locks were perfectly fine as well as my brake light. I was putting pressure on the fuse box when i was installing the hids so maybe somehow that messed with a fuse, but somewhere it is wire related and I've got no clue where the wires I need to be looking at are.

 

[icspots]

Did you do direct plug and play (ballasts wired directly off of the headlight wiring) or did you install a wiring harness? If you went plug and play then there's no reason adding the HIDs should effect anything you're referring to. If you did a harness then it's possible you hooked something up incorrectly somewhere. Incidentally if you did a harness and you have a 35w kit then you could easily just remove it and go direct to the headlight wiring.

If you want to rule things out then I'd strongly suggest removing any wiring (or at least unplugging it without actually uninstalling it) you added and see if everything's remarkably fixed once it's back to stock.

Oh and for the brake light being out. The tail/brake is actually a dual filament lamp, so it's quite possible for one filament to burn out while the other keeps working.

 

[jzgilbert]

Yeah it was direct plug n play 35w w/o the harness. I unplugged my drivers side hid (leaving passenger hid installed) and installed the stock headlight on the drivers side and no problems persisted.

So I figure either something is wrong with my ballast and possibly drawing too much and causing an issue somehow, or my stock wiring has an issue on the drivers side and just doesn't like the hid on that side...

Its odd how the passenger side hid doesn't cause problems though, just the drivers side...