[Motastic]

I am about fed up with this kit. I bought literally 6 kits from this vendor. He disappeared off the forums. He is a horrible person even at customer service.

His kit within the first week failed on me. I still bought 3 more from him for all the BMW's in the house.

Now my right side was not working so I got some ballasts from Highperformanbulbs but came to find out that its not the ballasts were messed up...its the damm power cable something is wrong with it

so my question now is that does anyone have any idea where I can get a good quality HID kit for the angel eyes or should I just get some LED's or what

-Mo

[Spydeputy]

Deep Breath, woosaa ! Not the first time the name has come up. GL

[Motastic]

so i am glad he realized it was time for him to go and unregistered himself otherwise i would be totally filing a dispute

[Zechariaha]

i used the DDM kit when i had mine done never had any problems just had to add a resistor when installing

[Motastic]

where do I get the DDM kit and the resistor for it?

[dragazn]

Originally Posted by Motastic

I am about fed up with this kit. I bought literally 6 kits from this vendor. He disappeared off the forums. He is a horrible person even at customer service.

His kit within the first week failed on me. I still bought 3 more from him for all the BMW's in the house.

Now my right side was not working so I got some ballasts from Highperformanbulbs but came to find out that its not the ballasts were messed up...its the damm power cable something is wrong with it

so my question now is that does anyone have any idea where I can get a good quality HID kit for the angel eyes or should I just get some LED's or what

-Mo

Felt the same way, bought his kit. Works great then all of a suddent some times it work and sometimes it doesn't. Came to realize is the whole wire system, that really bad. when the light goes out, if i wiggle the wire. I can hear a big tap noise and the light comes on/off. With lots of playing it was the duze on the wire that goes bad, the fuze got so hard it burn though the fuse holder which melted and later down the line my light wasn't working.

Bought a new fuze box and tap into the line. Few months later the stupid thing didn't work and wanted to work whenever it wants to. Play around more and found out that the cable that goes into the ballast is not attached right over the time period due to heat from engine bay. Yank that out and solder the wire straight in there. Everything works good now.


Few more months down the line, the left and right side is in different color. I had 20k kelvin kit. Got a DDM HID H11 bulb and swap it out. Some how that didin't work and not enought juice I think. Therefore swap out Camm. Ballse with the DDM, and everything is working great now.


In short is all a nightmare, and my kit is like frankstein now. I'm using DDM bulb, and DDM ballast, but with the Camm. error cancel resistor. Which I believe you can make that for like $50 and all the parts from radio shack.





if I would do it again, save your money and by a LUX kit or get the LED conv.

[Motastic]

Well right now I have some bulbs that are Highperformancebulbs and i have ballasts. The damm thing does not seem to work because i believe the fuse that goes by the ground is all destroyed and not because of malfunction the damm thing gets so hot.

The cable that connects into the wire in the driver side is all effed up and nothing turns on the car as far as angel's go. I believe its because of the fuse

I want a HID kit though because they are bright, the LUX's are not that bright and can barely be seen in the day time though

[Motastic]

what do you think about the Alpine HID?

[Jeff@TopGearSolutions]

You can use the HPB parts you bought you just need a legit wiring harness. From where I dont know. Perhaps you can rig up what has broken in your current harness? If I recall the camaroo kit is just a combination of wiring, fusees, relays and a generic hid kit.

[onesuperboi]

Get the Alpine HID kit. I have no problems with mine and the wiring is cleaner than Cam's.

[KN| BMW]

Why don't you get the LuX V3 instead of there crappy products?? I been purchasing many sets from them. No problem at all.

[Motastic]

but are the lux v3 bright and be seen during the day time? the camaroo's or HID's in general are pretty bright during the day

[lopealle]

OSS

Thread end

[darebornsolja]

Lux h8 v3 FTW

[Motastic]

well back to drawing board. I really am not in the mood to dish out another $250 or something for the Lux.

Anyway i can order replacement for the power cable for that HID kit or no?

[dragazn]

Originally Posted by Motastic

well back to drawing board. I really am not in the mood to dish out another $250 or something for the Lux.

Anyway i can order replacement for the power cable for that HID kit or no?

check DDM website you can get the wire harness from there or egay, is your best bet.

[taranonline]

^^ egay .. Hahahhaha

[fdriller9]

I've been reiterating myself nonstop about this issue. The reason why the ballast/bulbs fail is because of the PWM signal on the angel eyes and all other halogen fixtures in our headlights.

You need to either buy a ballast that was made for our car (aka has a PWM filter and a load resistor) or make a PWM filter yourself.

Otherwise, the HID kits you buy will continue to have a shotty lifespan.

Coding your car and changing the PWM frequency to a faster one is NOT a solution. It only hides it.

EDIT: An alternative is to wire the ballast directly to your battery and have a bosch relay triggered by a remote source. You can use the wire in your headlight as the remote source and use a resistor to trick the car into thinking your setup is valid.

Or you can code out the bulb check system so you don't have to worry about calculating the correct resistor size.

[fdriller9]

Originally Posted by dragazn

Felt the same way, bought his kit. Works great then all of a suddent some times it work and sometimes it doesn't. Came to realize is the whole wire system, that really bad. when the light goes out, if i wiggle the wire. I can hear a big tap noise and the light comes on/off. With lots of playing it was the duze on the wire that goes bad, the fuze got so hard it burn though the fuse holder which melted and later down the line my light wasn't working.

Bought a new fuze box and tap into the line. Few months later the stupid thing didn't work and wanted to work whenever it wants to. Play around more and found out that the cable that goes into the ballast is not attached right over the time period due to heat from engine bay. Yank that out and solder the wire straight in there. Everything works good now.


Few more months down the line, the left and right side is in different color. I had 20k kelvin kit. Got a DDM HID H11 bulb and swap it out. Some how that didin't work and not enought juice I think. Therefore swap out Camm. Ballse with the DDM, and everything is working great now.


In short is all a nightmare, and my kit is like frankstein now. I'm using DDM bulb, and DDM ballast, but with the Camm. error cancel resistor. Which I believe you can make that for like $50 and all the parts from radio shack.





if I would do it again, save your money and by a LUX kit or get the LED conv.

It's a large 6ohm or 12ohm resistor. The only purpose is to trick the car into thinking your setup is drawing the same amount of current as your stock bulbs. It's like a couple $, not $50.

Again guys, the constant fluctuation in voltage from the PWM signal is causing these problems.

[Josh1a1h]

My Alpine HID AE ARE BRIGHT! you can see them even in direct sunlight...

The outer ring like with all kits is never perfect... but i drive with my Dipped beams everywhere so you do not notice it at all... But the inner ring is amazing!

[Zechariaha]

u can get the resistor for the ddm kit at radio shack for a few dollars

[mashimarho]

Get the one in this link
Read these.
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=615997