Headlight wire harness...a very important part under your hood.

OK...I got the HID "LOOK" headlights.. AKA Plaza Xenon. When I bought the bulbs (9004) I MADE sure and asked the salesman if they would hurt my wire harness. Being the average businessman, of course he said NO THEY WON'T.

I check them out today cuz my left headlight quit working. AND OMG they were burnt to hell. A big U shaped melt was formed in the harness plug. SO I go back to Sound Sensations (where I bought 'em) and b*tch the hell out of them saying those bulbs could have caught my whole engine/car on fire and I demand you (them) to buy my new harnesses. They look tweaked out and don't know what to do. One guy says "oh this is very common on maximas", and another one says.."this is the SECOND time this has happened w/ our bulbs" So they talk to each other and end up offering me a $100 upgraded wire harness kit (w/ relays) for $15. I couldn't beat that. I installed the upgraded harness and my lights are brighter and they both work. WATCH OUT FOR THOSE TYPES OF BULBS!!!


I'll post pics later

 

do you know the color temperature of those bulbs?

 

the burnt harness was not a defect of the bulbs themselves....it's just that they draw alot more current than the standard bulbs.....but since the O.E.M maxima wiring harness is extremely thin it causes the wire and the actual plug to burn.....i run a stereo shop here in tx and when a customer wants xenon bulbs i look at their harness and make sure that it could take the extra current draw....if not i warn them beforehand. Craig Brace has a really good "how to" on making an upgraded harness w/ 14 gauge wire. Just look at his homepage.

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte671n/mymax.html

 

next time look at the wattage of the bulbs you're buying...it may help you

 

chris, the so called professional at the store told me i'd be alright. I already installed the new harness - lights are brighter and they're guarunteed not to melt.

www.tunedbymatrix.com

 

so did you learn your lesson? check the wattage of the bulb. if it's higher than stock. you'll more than likely burn the harness...

 

Had the same problem with Nokya bulbs (and, gauging from the posts I searched, so have a lot of other people). I wouldn't recommend those bulbs to my worst enemy... or Chris!
(you know I'm just bs'ing wit ya, Chris...)

 

I took the guys word I bought bulbs from a few years ago and I didnt check the wattage, half of the time these guys dont know what they are talking about. Im suprised they gave you anything, most places would have said your out of luck.

 

Yeah, I had those damn ricey high wattage bulbs an dI definetly learned my lesson. MAXIMA'S AREN'T RICE!! lol So, I went with the Sylvania Silverstars and I'm so happy with them!!

 

your 3rd gen got ****ed at you for trying to rice it out.

 

Its imune system was trying to get rid of the bulbs

 

no DanNy (oppresive moderator) I wanted brighter headlights than stock and just got what they had. Rice =

 

actually most of those cheap bulbs dont give that much more light, Ive had bulbs like them, and compared to the stock bulbs they are not much brighter. Now a good set of bulbs is a different story, D-sta's friend John (forgot his .org name) gave me some PIAA bulbs and they are so much better than the stock bubls and way better than the cheap "hyperwhite" bulbs.

 

 

it was a joke

if u think i'm oppresive then you don't know a damn thing about the rest of the mods.

also if you actually had a thought process and actually researched the bulbs...blue tint on the bulbs makes you actually "see" less on the road and also the tint actually lowers the lumens (light output). so you think you're getting brighter but you're really getting less light and killed your wire harness in the meantime.

 

DanNY = sarcastic mod

 

yes at times.
people need to take the internet less seriously

 

but I thought he was the "#1 hater in the NE" you have to choose Dan!!

 

damn i'm losing my title...i gotta get back to work...lol

 

I'm the president of the EOH club.
EOH - Equal Oppourtunity Hater

 

as do you... i know you know a lot more than me, and other org members, but you dont hafta p!ss on all of their thoughts/ideas/actions. I know you're sarcastic a lot, as other people are too - but i'm not on the org to make anyone mad...so i'll shut up. sometimes people cant tell sarcasm in typing.

 

BTW, your $100 harness only costs about $30. You didn't get that great of a deal.

 

yeah but you still have the "this thread sucks" thing going for you

 

from the price THEY sold it at, and the price comparison for OEM harnesses...I think I did.

 

Ok whatever. You got over on them BIGTIME.

 

well you probably didnt need a whole OEM harness, you can just buy the plugs for like $3.50 but for an upgraded harness (hopefully you got a whole harness and not just plugs) $15 isnt that bad

 

LOL I think i might have the record in changing those damn harnesses i changed them about 6 times both sides. Those damn nokya's finally decided to change them cuz even the bulb terminals melted.So i decided to buy a apc upgrade harness and ended up buying new nokyas and finally its works fine. Now all that was a waste cuz im doing my 200sx projector lights conversion so thats gonna be another time consuming mod.

 

that lost its flavor w/ this smiley edition though

 

yep phased out by a smilie mabey kev will name it after you?


btw

 

So, the new harness works fine for you now w/ those Nokya bulbs? Because, I thought about getting that, but, I didn't know if it actually worked or not?

BTW: Is this the harness that you got?

http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerc...10&prmenbr=361

 

Well?

 

Heh...HELL NO - I boycott APC... American Pieceof Chit

Ever see any non-ricer american put an APC banner on their winshield?

Mine is by Matrix... www.tunedbymatrix.com

(sorry, i didnt see someone brought this back from the shadows)

 

I went to that site, but, it's under construction? But, I've already ordered my wiring harness from Jegs.com, so, I'll have some bright headlights in a few days!!

 

oh, i guess matrix is still in the works...

If you dont know how to install it...I can tell you - holla back.


You'll notice SOME brightness difference...but not like OMG THAT'S BRIGHT!

it's cuz they're running off your battery once you get the upgraded harness...how much did you pay for it again?

 

Ok, cool. Did you run into any problems when you installed your new harness? Or, did you install a new one? But, anyways, I paid about $50 w/ shipping for mine?

 

That's funny... because going to that site, I see only 2 cars. And wouldn't you know it??? They're


You could make a harness for yourself for a fraction of the cost of any of those.

 

DO what?? i installed a new one myself, didnt run into any problems. took me about 20 min.


DarkLordBunny - who cares if those 2 cars are ?

Its just a wire harness

 

If you don't see the point being made here... don't worry about it... wouldn't want you to hurt yourself...

 

like i said, it's JUST a wire harness