Reply With QuoteI'd also like to see some pictures of installations. I am sort of interested in doing this myself, as well.
3 Grand Master
HID Ballast Mounting Locations - Advice
Got the HID kit today for my 89 e34 535i. Noted that there is ample room on the passenger side (North American), but no where to put the ballast on the driver side. The only place I see is the side of the washer fluid container, which certainly isn't a desireable place to mount a high voltage device!
To those that installed HID retrofits... where did you mount your ballasts? Pictures?
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I'd also like to see some pictures of installations. I am sort of interested in doing this myself, as well.
Big, Big Time Poster
Here's where I mounted them:
There's a bit of reflection from the flash on the driver's (left in this case) side ballast. I couldn't decide on a decent place to mount these as the instructions stated do not mount them anywhere they could be seriously exposed to water (i.e. the back of the grill, which would have been the easiest place to mount them). This is a 5200K H1 kit, Hella ballasts, mounted into european ellipsoids. To prevent having to cut/splice into the stock wiring I ordered a custom made set of wires from www.suvlights.com about $40 iirc. Jen was the name of the guy who helped me and he knew exactly what I needed -very nice and easy to deal with. There ph# was 626-967-3139 -been a while so you might check their website for details. The wire set took the total hassle out of the wiring problems.
I spliced the city light wiring into the parking lights since they were available since I'm running the euro bumper trim.
Hth
You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Big, Big Time Poster
! That's the passenger's side ballast (right side on US model) that's got the reflection -but you guys already figured that out -sorry for any confusion..
You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Grand Master
i thought u were supposed to mount them as low as possible?
Why would that be necessary?
They won't be heavy enough to significantly affect the car's C of G!
3 Grand Master
Mmmm... thanks for the ideas! I may splice some heavy gauge wiring to make it work... any others?
4 Grand Master
My locations is theft proof... in between your hood shock mount and the outer body... wedged with a medium stiff foam and double sided velcro that should have come with the kit. Only way to take it out is take the headlight out.
I used factory wire direct into the ballast and upgrade the fuse to 15A... factory wire is thick enough for 15A.
3 Grand Master
Well I did it. I mounted them both an NO LOW BEAM WARNING! Yippie!
The kit I got was 6500k 9006 from Kaxian. I fired them up and can't believe the incredible difference! Of course, I loomed all the wiring and reinsulated them all just in case.
There's only one issue though... there is a piece on the drivers side where the alternator... 'cooling' tube connects to. I cannot fit that piece in there anymore. I'll fabricate something in the near future, but now it will have to do without that piece. <--- anyone know what I'm talking about?
5-10 Grand Master
Originally Posted by Qube
Alternator cooling duct. Totally unnecessary do not bother hooking it back up. I have a rather complex audio/video system drawing tons of power and i've never had a single issue not running the duct. As for my ballasts, they are mounted to the bumper shocks parallel with the main frame rails of the car. I have Philips ballasts which are REALLY insulated. They've been splashed when i was pulling my washer tank resevoir and never had an issue.
Mounted as low as possible martin? Why would you think that?
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