I installed hids on my 09 been having problems with them. They work fine. But sometimes one works and the other doesn't or neither one works. When both don't work an alarm sounds goes off in the cab. I have a relay wired into them. When I bought it 2 years ago it had strobes installed in the high beams. Used to belong to a volunteer firefighter. Could that be causing my problem.
I've never looked to see if it has an alarm speaker. I bought the truck 2 years ago never seen what all is hooked up lol Sent from AutoGuide.com Free App
I only have the hids on the low beams. The strobes are on the high side. I've had them for 5 months now. The only problem is the weird way that one comes on and one don't and the alarm I hear which is rare for it to go off.
Just an update bout the problem I've been having. It's not the ballasts that are bad. The strobes that are installed are interfering with the low beam circuit. I pulled the fuse and the hids worked flawlessly but I had no high beams.
I am an installer of emergency warning lights. I have installed strobes in many vehicles including my 05 colorado and 07 trailblazer SS and I have had HID's in every light in both trucks. I have never ran in to any interference with my HID's and strobes even when they were both on. Sounds like the guy before you tapped power from somewhere he shouldn't have or grounded somewhere he shouldn't have. But if there is no strobe power supply, there is NO way there ever could be interference between the two. Strobe cables have a foil lined core to prevent that and the strobe tube in the head light can't do anything to the head light itself or the HID unless the HID is touching the exterior metal coil along the outside of the strobe tube, causing a back feed of power through the cable and grounding itself out. Which that much power from the ballast, back feeding through a strobe cable and grounding out in the truck would cause all kinds of issues.
Without a strobe power supply, the strobe tubes and wires will not cause you any problems unless touching the HID metal running along the outside of the HID bulb.
Trace the wires the best you can from the switch and find out where its getting the power from, where its grounded too and make sure there is no strobe pack in your truck. It would be a 4x6 inch box with cables and wires going into it.
Well these strobes are running off the actual high beam bulb. I know usual kits has a strobe tube. I pulled the fuse this weekend since I traveled didn't want the wife to bump the switch. The hids never had a problem. So idk what is goin where.
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