HID Kit questions for Galant ES 09

[FX86]

Originally Posted by Adrish

It's not from ballast actually, sounds coming from relay fuse black box.
When the car is off no buzzing at all same as when I turn the lights on. When I turn the car on and my light set to off its buzzing until I turned them on and it'll go away.

there shouldn't be any sound coming from the fuse box...usually that sound you are describing comes from the ballasts where all the electrical parts are located to power the HIDs

just for the heck of it have you tried the HIDs without using a relay and just running it directly from the car's lighting harness..maybe just try one bulb and ballast without a relay and see what happens...i'm not sure how it is for the Galant but on my FR-S I used their 55W HID kit without a relay and it ran fine but then again two different cars

[Adrish]

Originally Posted by FX86

there shouldn't be any sound coming from the fuse box...usually that sound you are describing comes from the ballasts where all the electrical parts are located to power the HIDs

just for the heck of it have you tried the HIDs without using a relay and just running it directly from the car's lighting harness..maybe just try one bulb and ballast without a relay and see what happens...i'm not sure how it is for the Galant but on my FR-S I used their 55W HID kit without a relay and it ran fine but then again two different cars

Mhm I see.

Well for first time I tried it without relay, and funny thing was after minute being on, the bulb was flickering made pop sound and smoke coming out of it like you see in movie/ cartoons

So I don't know what do to now, I was thinking about turning my lights on even during day but I'm worried about if this gonna heat up bulb even more and decrease lifetime.

[FX86]

Originally Posted by Adrish

Mhm I see.

Well for first time I tried it without relay, and funny thing was after minute being on, the bulb was flickering made pop sound and smoke coming out of it like you see in movie/ cartoons

So I don't know what do to now, I was thinking about turning my lights on even during day but I'm worried about if this gonna heat up bulb even more and decrease lifetime.

Seems like you do need that relay then lol

Honestly, I heard the buzzing too but I just ignored it because i couldn't hear it when i was driving with the music playing and I ran my HIDs during all day just to show off my lights lol and they've been working fine for almost a year until I went with their LEDs instead.

If it dies you still have warranty with them so they will replace any defective parts. I don't know how responsive they are on Amazon but on eBay they were very quick to reply on several occasions.

[Adrish]

Originally Posted by FX86

Seems like you do need that relay then lol

Honestly, I heard the buzzing too but I just ignored it because i couldn't hear it when i was driving with the music playing and I ran my HIDs during all day just to show off my lights lol and they've been working fine for almost a year until I went with their LEDs instead.

If it dies you still have warranty with them so they will replace any defective parts. I don't know how responsive they are on Amazon but on eBay they were very quick to reply on several occasions.

Alright I guess Im gonna do same haha

just out of curiosity, is it wise to disable DRL (daytime running light)?

[FX86]

Originally Posted by Adrish

Alright I guess Im gonna do same haha

just out of curiosity, is it wise to disable DRL (daytime running light)?

I'd keep them on. Some people disabled them for whatever personal reasons but i'd rather keep them enabled. It's not illegal turn off DRLs in America but the lights will definitely help you be more visible to other careless stupid drivers

If you don't like how they look then go with the LED route and get something more exotic looking ...that's what the rest of the people here did...they got rid of the halogen bulbs and replaced it with some cool looking LED bulbs

for example...stock of the left | LED on the right

[Adrish]

Originally Posted by FX86

I'd keep them on. Some people disabled them for whatever personal reasons but i'd rather keep them enabled. It's not illegal turn off DRLs in America but the lights will definitely help you be more visible to other careless stupid drivers

If you don't like how they look then go with the LED route and get something more exotic looking ...that's what the rest of the people here did...they got rid of the halogen bulbs and replaced it with some cool looking LED bulbs

for example...stock of the left | LED on the right

Damn those look nice!

I mean not all halogen bulb are bad tho, I just use it for high beam and my regular one is Xenon. When I was checking around, I read somewhere that xenon light output is kinda the same as LED so if its anything else, I dont know about that.

About my DRL problem when relay fuse box was making buzz sound, My father kinda figured it out how to fix it. During day, he checked the voltage output from battery without relay that it was going through the cable to the bulb it was much higher than when I installed the relay. So he add another relay for DRL just to send more voltage to the main relay fuse box. Ever since then its not buzzing at all when my lights are set to off (which DRL).