max_stuermer

iTrader: (1)

Hello,

Recently, I broke a driver side headlight assembly for a halogen bulb. Since I'm been looking for a replacement, I stumbled across someone offering BOTH driver and passenger assemblies for an HID for unbelievably cheap. I would love to make the switch, but I'm not sure how much of the wiring harness I would need to change on my existing harness. I know that the leveling functions wouldn't work, but this isn't a huge deal for me.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

9krpmrx8

iTrader: (46)

If your car came with Halogens and not Xenons then you can't use the factory HID assemblies without doing a lot of wiring work and your car is not equipped with the level sensors.

You would have been better off buying replacement halogen units and an aftermarket HID kit.

max_stuermer

iTrader: (1)

I've read different things on here, but it seems like the only major wiring differences would be with respects to the leveling sensor. I wouldn't need that. One person on here also disregarded the leveling sensor, and the only change he needed to make was to the connector for the low beam bulb. I will have access to the HID harness, so I could just switch them out fairly easily if that's the case.

So, if I left out the leveling sensor stuff, would it be fairly simple? Like I said, I'm getting all of this stuff for extremely cheap. I'm getting BOTH of the HID assemblies, bulbs, and harness for the equivalent of 1 used halogen assembly.

9krpmrx8

iTrader: (46)

Well your biggest issue will be powering the HID assemblies since a halogen equipped car will not have the larger power wires for the Xenon units and that harness is not easily replaced. Disregarding the level sensors will probably be ok since the car is not looking for them but you won't have a way to adjust the HID units so you better hope they end up leveled.


It is possible but you are simplifying it a bit. I swapped brand new halogen units into my Xenon equipped car (OEM Xenons were $1300 a pair at the time) and on a buddies Xenon equipped car and them just ran a Murimoto H7 kit from retrofit source. In doing what I did, you already have the power you need for the aftermarket HID kit and the levelers are disregarded but the Halogen units have a manual level adjustments.