swap the wires

 

what ones as the only ones that can be swapped are the oines that go into the standard 3 pin plug for original bulbs. tried all ways ans either nothing works or is as it is now.

 

on the 306 bulb plug i have green/yellow, blue and white wires. on the hid kit it has brown, blue and white wires. tried all ways of connecting it and not right any way.

 

the reflectors on the hid bulbe should be below the bulb when fitted i take it

 

surely when dipped beams on, one goes to 12V+ and when full beam another goes to 12V+ and one always is earth?

Swap the two 12v+ wires?


OR

At least you know the lamps are working ok? They have dipped and main beam?

Drive with your main beam on the stalk = dipped beams come on?

Nevermind arseing around with wiring, just accept that you have to have the stalk saying opposite!
Is it worth the hassle?

 

thats what i thought but nope doesnt change anything, scratching head thinking why oh why

 

does it matter what side i wire in the main wiring to the original bulb wiring

 

disconnect hid kit and install normal bulbs again works fine so confused

 

Why does it matter what setting you have the stalk at to produce dipped beams?

You can get it to light? Write a new label for the stalk.

 

as it will fail an mot. as you cant flash full beam.

 

Do you have 2 ballasts or 4 ?

Surely if you switch the stalk to main beam, find which wire on the car goes to 12V+

I assume the crazy French have green/yellow earth?

These two wires must connect to the ballast for the main beam.

When you revert to dipped beam, the other (3rd) wire must now go to 12V+ and the previous one for main beam must drop to 0V.

Now connect the dip beam 12V+ and your earth to your dip beam ballast.



I can't think how else to put this.....

You have one wire always at 0V - the earth - or negative terminal of battery.

there are two other wires - one will be 12V+ when dip beam on - the other will be 12V+ when the main beam is on.

Connect the one that goes to 12V+ when dip beam is on to ballast for dip beam.

Connect the one that goes to 12V+ when main beam is on to ballast for main beam.

Earth goes to both ballasts.


If you can't follow that - get to an autospark or a pal who is handy.

 

i have 2 ballasts, so one ballast is dipped beamand one is main beam. so if i got them the wrong way round then that could be why. the ballasts have the same wires coming out so how would i know which is which. i just dont know why the fitting would be different from the previous car they were on. it is an h4 kit so dipped and main on the same bulb. when removing from the other car i didnt seperate any of the kit so should be just wire up earths, positive to battery and wiring plug to original headlight plug on one side only