headlight wiring question...
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headlight wiring question...
i have checked voltage n whatnot.
my problem is i am rocking foglights for headlights. it looks aight during the day. but at night i cant see SHlT 5 feet in front of me.
the headlight problem has been there since i bought the car.
the bulbs work hardwired to battery. both low and high.
i do get voltage on both sides for low/high ground is within ohm rating. but i cant get the lights to power on when i flip the switch. everything else comes on. i unplug the light and it has 12 volts to the pigtail again...
what could be the problem? if i wasnt leaving in 6 days i wouldnt worry about it because st pete is litup well enough u dont need headlights to get around town.
i figured i would try and fix it. if not i am not worried about it. only thing i can think to do is to hard wire them so when the car is running All the lights are on. that way i never have to worry about the switch or leaving them on...
my problem is i am rocking foglights for headlights. it looks aight during the day. but at night i cant see SHlT 5 feet in front of me.
the headlight problem has been there since i bought the car.
the bulbs work hardwired to battery. both low and high.
i do get voltage on both sides for low/high ground is within ohm rating. but i cant get the lights to power on when i flip the switch. everything else comes on. i unplug the light and it has 12 volts to the pigtail again...
what could be the problem? if i wasnt leaving in 6 days i wouldnt worry about it because st pete is litup well enough u dont need headlights to get around town.
i figured i would try and fix it. if not i am not worried about it. only thing i can think to do is to hard wire them so when the car is running All the lights are on. that way i never have to worry about the switch or leaving them on...
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Originally Posted by Empire oh no. another ass hole 240...
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i drove by on my way to work the other day and saw your car up on jacks...
i'm hoping that is because you were bolting up your exhaust, not because of another problem
as far as my 2 cents on the head lights, for the original bulbs, the bulbs themselves might have just been going bad. they still lit up, but not real bright.
As for your light mod, the bulbs in the fog lights might not put out any more light.
as far as fog lights go, that is pretty much as far as they are supposed to throw light.
what would be ideal is if you got some stock fog lights off of a beamer or something that has fog lights that same basic shape, and got HID bulbs for them and just wired those up.
wiring them so they are on when the car is on isn't that bad of an idea. I leave my lights on all of the time since I've gotten used to driving pam's celica (R.I.P.) its head lights are automatic.
i'm hoping that is because you were bolting up your exhaust, not because of another problem
as far as my 2 cents on the head lights, for the original bulbs, the bulbs themselves might have just been going bad. they still lit up, but not real bright.
As for your light mod, the bulbs in the fog lights might not put out any more light.
as far as fog lights go, that is pretty much as far as they are supposed to throw light.
what would be ideal is if you got some stock fog lights off of a beamer or something that has fog lights that same basic shape, and got HID bulbs for them and just wired those up.
wiring them so they are on when the car is on isn't that bad of an idea. I leave my lights on all of the time since I've gotten used to driving pam's celica (R.I.P.) its head lights are automatic.
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or you could get real crazy and get those "HID" headlights from ebay, and get your hands on some j30 headlights. gut out the ebay lights and remove the actual light assembly out of the j30 headlight and craftily mount the light assembly into the ebay light, seal it all up, wire it up with an HID kit, and boom, real projector style hids.
presidential did it, or at least started trying to do it a long time ago. you only get the low beam because the j30 used a separate light for the high beam. But from what I remember, you can get it all assembled and it will clear the assembly on the car so you can have stock functioning flip up lights.
I'm sure you could solve the high beam problem by getting the projector assembly from a car that uses the same projector for low and high beams.
It is a project I always wanted to try to do, but never had the funds to just tinker with. I remember presidential was over 150 bucks into it just getting the projector mounted.
presidential did it, or at least started trying to do it a long time ago. you only get the low beam because the j30 used a separate light for the high beam. But from what I remember, you can get it all assembled and it will clear the assembly on the car so you can have stock functioning flip up lights.
I'm sure you could solve the high beam problem by getting the projector assembly from a car that uses the same projector for low and high beams.
It is a project I always wanted to try to do, but never had the funds to just tinker with. I remember presidential was over 150 bucks into it just getting the projector mounted.
