HID bulb flickering

[mvs2]

Hey guys, My car has 8000k HID's and the drivers side bulb has been randomly flickering like a strobe light and then going back to normal. It's starting to drive me nuts.

I don't know anything when it comes to electrical, I was playing around with the connections to see if it any wires were loose but to no avail. Nothing I did would directly cause the flickering.

My guess would be that the bulb is dying but what do I know

[Nismo_line]

try unplugging them and plugging it back in. my hids were randomly not working. did this and are working great now

[beacher1B0]

Chance are your Bulb is on its way out.
Try to temporarily hook them up dirrectly to the battery, it might stop the flickering. If it does, wire up the HIDS with a relay that gets ON/OFF signal from the headlight harness and feeds the HIDS directly from the battery.

[BongRips]

Those relay cables are only around 5 bucks and work nice, I got one myself

[mvs2]

I'll check it out guys, Its just the one bulb that's doing it so I figured its probably just about ready to be replaced

[blkgtr02]

+1 to the relay cables. That fixed it most of the times. Other than that its on its way out.

[beacher1B0]

Be a true Nissan fanatic and wire up a Relay from a scrapped Nissan. I wired up a Blue Nissan Relay for my HIDS and even was able to tuck it into my Relay Box in the engine bay.

[mvs2]

TBH I know nothing about wiring, especially with HID's :s Little afraid to even mess with it. The wire job is really shotty as it is for the HID's.

I hate electrical and it hates me :P


To be safe I'll try the new bulb first.

[mvs2]

Actually, while were on the topic of electrical -- I have a nice deck that came with the car from japan but it doesn't read any stations over 90.0 FM, is there a way to boost the signal strength? or am I going to have to do what I've done with all my other JDM cars and buy a new deck :P