Installation Guides
How to install car lights properly.
Proper installation is CRITICAL to achieve good use of your Xenon bulbs. While handling the bulbs during installation, you must wear clean cotton or latex gloves. After installation, gently wipe bulb with a little isopropyl alcohol to be absolutely sure that no oil residue from your hands (or car) is left on the bulb itself. Failure to wear clean gloves, or wiping the bulb off, will cause premature (or immediate) bulb failure due to hot spots that will build-up from leftover grease residue.
Because of the above noted vehicle variables and installation issues beyond our control, we do not warranty any light bulbs beyond them being in perfect working order upon your receipt of them, unless installed by a documented professional. A new non-working bulb will of course be replaced at no charge, after testing. Any bulb returned for warranty must be accompanied by a receipt showing that the bulb was installed by a accredited automotive professional.
Important tips for car lights
"Spiking" is the most common "cause of death" for any performance bulb. Avoid "spiking" by always turning your lights on AFTER starting your car, and turn them off prior to turning the cars ignition off.
Please consult your vehicle's Owners Manual (or your dealer) for the correct bulb type prior to ordering.
It is important that you check to make sure what type of bulb your particular vehicle needs. You can find the type of bulbs your specific vehicle uses in several locations. One place is the head light lens. The bulb type will often be marked on it. Another place is on the bulb itself, the bulb type and wattage will be printed or stamped into the base. The vehicle owner's manual should also tell you what type of bulb you need for your head lights, and/or fog lights.
You can also check our reference guide on the bulb ordering page. However, due to frequent changes by the car makers often without notice, we can not guarantee that the guide is completely accurate
INDUSTRY CROSS REFERENCE TABLE
An H4 bulb is also referred to as a 9003, or an HB2.
A 9004 bulb is also referred to as a HB1.
A 9005 bulb is also referred to as a HB3.
A 9006 bulb is also referred to as a HB4.
A 9007 bulb is also referred to as a HB5.
H1,H3, & H7 bulbs are usually referred as such.
What bulbs will fit my vehicle?
Your factory bulbs are preset with identification numbers such as 9005, 9006, H1, H3, etc. When purchasing aftermarket bulbs make sure you buy the bulbs with the correct number. Use this bulb application guide.
Why change my OEM bulbs?
Higher Wattage bulbs let you see more at night making Less tiring during night-time driving
Can add exotic look to your cars appearance at nights. Make your car Stand Out! Why look like 99% cars out their with yellow bulbs?
High quality products that have been tested
LED Bulb Fix - Fix your fast flashing or Non Recognizable LED Bulbs
Reason why you need to do this? Computer in vehicle thinks no bulbs are connected because LEDs do not draw much power thus they don't place much of a load on the line. This causes computer to think the bulb is out and it either will flash fast or giving you warning lights.
About Headlights
This guide is for those who are planning to purchase or have purchased aftermarket auto lights already and explains what you can do to minimize the chance that your brand new lights might get water condensation or fogged up. Even if you purchase a set of lights from a dealer, they don't guarantee it free of condensation either.
- For most of the auto lights, they come with one or several ventilation paths located in the back of the lights as shown below.
- You might purchase a set of new lights to replace the stock ones, but re-use your old bulbs, which might have been used for a long time, and the rubber seals on the bulb sockets are either worn out or strangely shaped and might not function well on the new lights. Therefore, the following is what you need to do when using your original bulbs with the new lights.
Most aftermarket lights do not require brand new bulbs. Instead you can just use your stock ones. However, please make sure that you revive or change the rubber seal as show in the pic above. Reviving can be easily done by applying some Vaseline to it. By the way, do not touch the bulbs or leave any Vaseline on the bulbs as that would shorten their life.
Halo Installation
Most of the aftermarket headlights you see selling usually have two major features. One being a projector headlight, because most cars don't come equipped from the factory with projectors, they usually just have regular reflective headlights. And two, most aftermarket headlight have what are called "Halos" or "Angel Eyes". This feature is very popular because of it gives regular cars a very distinctive look. This feature can only be found on most high end BMW's.
In 99% of aftermarket headlights with real halos, WILL require some modification to your vehicles wiring harness. The term "PLUG AND PLAY", but that term has been mis-used by many sellers. Real aftermarket Halos lights will require a separate connection, because most cars don't come with Halos from the factory, so your vehicle won't have a plug or harness for it.
PLEASE REMEBER. IF YOU HAVE NO PROIR KNOWLEGDE OF YOUR VEHICLE'S ELECTRICAL SYSTEM OR HAVE NEVER DONE ANY KIND OF MODIFICATION TO YOUR VEHICLES ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND HAVING A TRAINED PROFESSIONAL INSTALL THE LIGHTS FOR YOU.
*This is just an Example, your actual lights may not look like what we shown, but the blue prints are very similar.
So here are some tips on installing aftermarket halo headlight into your vehicle. First let me show you what a typical Halo connection looks like on most aftermarket lights.
First you have to identify which wires are for the Halos. Example of what they may look like
The colors of the wires will vary. But in most cases they will be two different colors, to separate the GROUND wire from the POWER wire. To identify which is which can be tricky in some cases. But in most cases Black or White wires are usually the ground wire, but not in all cases. When you finally make the connection, just experiment with the two wires to test to see which wires are which.
WHERE TO CONNECT THE HALO WIRES TO:.
The most common and recommend place to connect the Halo wires to are on your vehicle's PARKING light wiring harness.
Example of what a common parking/ signal light harness looks like:
Your signal/ parking light harness will have 3 different color wires. For ground, parking and signal. THE ORDER OF THE WIRES WILL VARY.
After you identify which wires on your vehicle's harness are which, again, if you are not sure, you can just experiment to check which wires are which.
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You than connect the ground wire from your aftermarket light to the ground wire on your vehicles signal/ parking wiring harness.
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And than you connect the power wire from your aftermarket lights to your PARKING light wire, and not your signal light wire.
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If you connect your power wire to your vehicles signal light wire, this will cause your halos to blink whenever you turn on your signal lights.
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There are various ways to connect the two wires together.
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We recommend using a wire clamp or tap, it is the easiest, fastest and safest way of doing this, they can be found at most auto part or electrical stores. Basically it is a small clamp were to put two different wires together and close down on a locking clamp. It properly connects the two wires together without any cutting of any of the wires yourself.
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If you cannot find or get any of these clamps, you do have other options. But the general rule is to somehow connect or tap into your vehicles wiring harness to connect the halo wires properly.
After that you test the lights to see if they are working properly by turning on your parking light. Here is where you can check to see if you connected the right wires together. If it does not work properly, here is where you experiment with the different wires to see if maybe you connected them incorrectly.
Some aftermarket headlights have what are called a Dual Halo or Twin Halo, that is where there are two halos on each light instead of one. The installation of those are exactly the same process we just went over.
This is a similar way to connect LED lights as well. Adding LEDs to aftermarket lights are now becoming very popular. Than installation of the LEDs on aftermarket headlights are very similar to connecting Halo.