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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 05:38 PM
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Bought 9004 Wire Harness Now Its Not Working Properly?!!!

what up. I melted my headlight harness connector because I installed fake hid nokya blue bulbs. so I bought a 9004 upgrade headlight harness off e-bay It has nice thick wires and pilot relays and I installed it properly grounded them nicely but now at night the high beam indicator shows up very lightly? and the high beams wont turn on???? I cant use the search so please help..
Old Jul 29, 2003 | 05:51 PM
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i have the same problem. anyone?
Old Jul 29, 2003 | 06:38 PM
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how much did u pay for them?
I bought mine off suvlights.com for 40 bucks and they worked fine.
I have it laying around, Anyone want it? i cut off the harness that goes into the bulb cuz i need them for my HID's, so all u need is harness.
Old Jul 29, 2003 | 06:55 PM
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I paid less than 40.00 or 40 w/shipping something like that anyway I can tell that it is a good quality product though and someone said too switch around the wires on the harness ; make the left the right and so on I dont know but I lost high beams and I kind of dont like, it even though the bulbs are stronger (80/100 watts)
Old Jul 29, 2003 | 07:39 PM
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I just got a new harness from southwestautoworks and I hope it works fine....I'm worried now that everyone is saying they are having problems.

Originally posted by maximalnemisis
I paid less than 40.00 or 40 w/shipping something like that anyway I can tell that it is a good quality product though and someone said too switch around the wires on the harness ; make the left the right and so on I dont know but I lost high beams and I kind of dont like, it even though the bulbs are stronger (80/100 watts)
Old Jul 29, 2003 | 08:08 PM
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Re: Bought 9004 Wire Harness Now Its Not Working Properly?!!!

Originally posted by maximalnemisis
what up. I melted my headlight harness connector because I installed fake hid nokya blue bulbs. so I bought a 9004 upgrade headlight harness off e-bay It has nice thick wires and pilot relays and I installed it properly grounded them nicely but now at night the high beam indicator shows up very lightly? and the high beams wont turn on???? I cant use the search so please help..
make sure the wiring is right....i remember when i got a regular socket from advance auto and plugged it up but my high beams wouldn't work, just my low beams, i double checked the wires and had them hooked up wrong, changed them and now they work fine....hope that helps
Old Sep 13, 2003 | 12:02 PM
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replaced it with a stock wire harness, going to have to replace with the heavy duty one as sson as i order it.
Old Sep 13, 2003 | 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by patel_anu
make sure the wiring is right....i remember when i got a regular socket from advance auto and plugged it up but my high beams wouldn't work, just my low beams, i double checked the wires and had them hooked up wrong, changed them and now they work fine....hope that helps

Ditto, I had the exact same problem. Instead of hooking the wire harness by the colors, Like matching red to red, blk to blk, You have to wire them in the exact order they come out of the stock plug.

If you need pics i can take some. I have the Nokya harness.
Old Sep 13, 2003 | 06:10 PM
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You probably just have the wires switched, I really don't think there could be any other explination.

Rbeyer: I replaced my stock harness with the one sold at southwestautoworks and everything works great, you just need to use a bit of common sense when connecting the wires. It's quite easy.
Old Sep 13, 2003 | 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by ch13f
You probably just have the wires switched, I really don't think there could be any other explination.

Rbeyer: I replaced my stock harness with the one sold at southwestautoworks and everything works great, you just need to use a bit of common sense when connecting the wires. It's quite easy.
you have 3 wire that goes to the harness.

conn the harness to the bulb which is installed in the housing.

the 1st wire goes to the right of the harness, this is your ground.

now you need a test light. clip the test light to ground, turn on your headlights. touch the other 2 wires with the test light. the 1 that turns on is your headlight. that wire goes in the center of the harness.

now the last wire will only turn on when you it the hi-beam stem. this wire goes on the left of the harness.

good luck, i hope this helps.

this wiring will not work with harnesses that have relay.
Old Sep 13, 2003 | 10:06 PM
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this is very simple fix.... if u had a chilton manual or a hanyes... u need to look up the wiring diagram of ur stock wire harness.... the ebay wire harness is not connected to the correct wires... thus the reason y u have a dim high beam indicator.... i had the same problem... i fixed it with no problems... anyone can pm me and ill b gladly to lend a helping hand
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