jrod0187

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So I'm doing my install as we speak and reading this. There is no mention of hooking up the turning signals.

adrenaline1

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looks nice, i love the purple color that hits objects, walls

-CT9A-

Alright, so I am going to bump a 20 year old thread.

After 20 years has anyone melted their wiring harness wiring up HIDs this way., i.e, just adding 20 amp fuses and rerouting wires...lol?

I am considering doing it this way, but I worry the non-HID wiring is undersized for the amperage of the HID ballasts on startup and just adding 20 amp fuses may be insufficient. I would really like to use a non aftermarket ballast, nor would I want to cut up my existing harness. The other alternative that is available is replacing the entire front harness & fuse box, but this seems like a lot of work. Any advice is greatly appreciated. I do not need the levelers and the fogs to work.

If someone has a recommendation other than this, I would appreciate it.

-CT9A-

So after some perusing the service manual, the wires on the non-HID harness going to the low beam are 0.5mm^2 and the wires going to the low beam on the HID harness are 2mm^2. Given the higher amps that a HID ballast and HID can draw, the .5mm^2 wire would be insufficient. So a relay harness is what one should do even if they are going to run the the stock HID ballast and bulb. I probably won't run fog lights, but if I were to I would probably replace the harness at that point.