This post serves two purposes (geo1317 check your PMs!)

Ok that's the first purpose hehe. On to the second. My question is I bought a wiring harness so I don't use my stock wires.

Now my understanding is that I take one of the factory bulb harnesses and plug it into the female socket of the upgraded wiring harness so that it gets the high beam/low beam switch signal. Correct?

Also, I have to hack off the 9004 connector of the upgraded wiring harness and wire them into my ballasts. Does anyone remember which pin goes to which wire by chance?

I was reading the auto lighting faq, and they mentioned something about needing a diode on the power wire to use the high beams on my bixenons because we use a 9004 bulb that shuts off the low beam filament when you switch to high beams. Is that correct? Or do I not need that diode and can just wire them straight to the ballasts without any problems and have full use of low and high beams?

Thanks everyone in advance. If I get these answered in a timely manner they'll hopefully be in this weekend!

 

I just sent you a PM back.

But let me explain.

With the 9004 bulbs, when you put your hi beams on, the low beams get turned off. Thus if you just wire the HIDs to the low beam and you wire the shield solenoid to the Hi beam, the HIDs will go off when you hit your hi beams.

One option you have is to use a capacitor (not diode). What you do is, you wire up both the hi and low beams to the ballast and what the capacitor does it keep the power on while the power switches between the two wires. This is a bit harder to do.

What I did is I wired my HIDs to come on with the fog light switch, and I have the fog lights come on with the low beam switch, that way when I hit my Hi beam the HIDs stay on, and only the fog lights go off. if you have a Haynes manual you can see what wires you need to use.