Slight problem with HID's

[K. Soze]

Well, I hooked up my HID's yesterday and everything is working great. However, there is one slight hiccup. My high beam indicator light is dimmly on when I have headlights on. It's not there when I turn the headlights off and it fully illuminates when I try to turn the high beams on.

I have the DDM kit (H4 low beam kit). I opted against having high beams because, frankly, I don't use them. It's not a huge deal if I can't figure this out, but I'm a perfectionist. I don't want this indicator light slightly on. I tried moving the ground and power wires around on the factory harness and they only work one way. Is it a bad ground? Any suggestions? Anybody else have this problem?

[ForceFed]

Hmmmm...Thats a new one.
I assume these use a relay to turn them on....Check all of your connections and make sure your grounds on the HID harness and relay are good and make sure you haven't forgotten to hook up anything the way it was.
Chack your healight harnesses as well.
Its got to be something simple....I wonder if there is a bad wire or relay for your HIDs...Maybe a pinched or chaffed wire?
I'd check it over real good first.

[K. Soze]

I'll do that. Everything in the kit looks top-notch. There aren't any chaffed wires or pinched ones, for that matter. I think it has something to do with where I plug my ground and power wires into the stock headlight harness. I agree with you in the fact that it has to be something simple. I don't think it's the kit because like I said in my first post, everything is working perfectly except for this high beam indicator light.

I forgot to mention this is on a Mazdaspeed Protege.

[K. Soze]

Well, I did some troubleshooting and discovered it was coming from my driver side HID's. I pulled out the fuse going to my driver side light and turned my lights on. Only the passenger side headlight turned on and no dimmed high beam indicator light. I then pulled the passenger side headlight fuse and put in the driver side one.....dimmed high beam indicator light back on. I decided to put the stock halogen bulb back in the driver side headlight harness and keep the HID's in the passenger side. This did not yield a dimmed high beam indicator light.

So, it's as if the car thinks there is something blown in the driver side HID's or it's not sensing the HID's (if that makes sense). Is there something wrong with a relay or the ballast or something? It powers on and works like it should, but for some reason the car does not want to recognize it's working for some reason.

Any help, guys and gals?

[K. Soze]

Aaaaaaannnnnnnnnd.....fixed. w00t!

[18sOnAiR]

what did you do?

[K. Soze]

It was something funny with how my Autometer gauges were hooked up. Don't ask me how it exactly got fixed, but it did. I hooked the gauges up to light up off the aux. lights instead of the headlights so I could just take the high beam indicator light out of the cluster. The reason I was going to do this is because I tried taking it out last night, but somehow that bulb must be part of the same circuit and my gauges wouldn't light up with that bulb out. Soooooooooooo, I changed around where my gauges get their power from and after I did that, my high beam indiator light doesn't come one with the headlights.


That must be very confusing to read. To make it simple, I think it was just something that needed to be grounded better and I probably did it after I messed with the gauges. Kind of funky if you ask me.