Aftermarket HID cutoff
 

1. Does anyone have a picture of light cutoff after aftermarket kit has been installed into halogen housing(no projector)
2. Is there a kit with resistor and relay prewired.
3. If I decide to go through with an aftermarket thing, where is a good spot to ground ballast/ignitor box.

P.S. Has anyone burnt a stock wire without relays. How much can it handle on HID startup.

Any response is welcome.

Good question, I'd like to know what too.

As the factory harness to the low beam/ ballast is the same it's no problem.

SO the wire for HID models is the same? Is stock HID equiped with relays, cause HID ballast draws a lot more energy at start up than halogen during normal use.
I spend lots of time on Mazdaforums and they had some burned wires with plug'n'play. I know it is Mazda3 not BMW-- I just have a little concern about wiring.
I will probably install the relay/resistor option -- safer. I prefer to spend 40 $ more than pay for electrical repair
ps I think it safe to say Mazda3 is BMW's little baby brother

My upgrade has been working without problem for some time now as have many others on this board.
The low beam is 55 W the HID ballast is rated 35 W.
Mazda is not even in the same family, it's a Ford/Jap hybrid.

Wattage, ampage and voltage are all inter-related. Watts = Volts X Amps. I don't think anybody on this or other BMW boards have fitted extra relays and have had the lights working without problems.

There has been only one or two MZ3s with a problem.

OK it sounds we have decided it is better to play safe but if you dont it is just as fine so far.

What about the cutoff ? is the glare that bad?

What are the kits people use? DDM, Apexcone, Phillips based(600$ :confused: ), Prolumen etc


Zulu95! Thank you
Sedoy! Spasiba.

ps What about the cutoff, is it one big glare ????

Пожалуйста.

I’m sure that you will get some sort of glare, HIDs design for projectors or sometimes special reflectors (like older Lexus GS, Nissan Maxima).

Я в процессе установки 50Wксенона, который на 35% ярче чем оригинал. Вот начало:
http://www.xoutpost.com/x5-e53-forum/27534-next-mod-led-projector-illumination-do-not-do.html
В моем случаи без реле и линз просто не обойтись. Советую купить фары с линзами, рассеивание света будет на много шире и лучше. Плюс внешний вид приятнее!
Удачи.

Can you make a little walk through during set-up. with pictures!
I dont think I am ready to pull a facelift -- it costs a major ROUBLE to get new lamps. Plus, it not my car(wife's). I would install 35w kit with a 3500-4200k color for better vision in the rain into stock halogen lamp. and if it doesn't work out -- MZ3 is in for a treat of her life.
ps. Ya dumaiu aftermarket budet luchshe chem stock, tem bolee deshevle i garantirovanny na zhizn'.

I'm not done yet (busy at college right now). But after completion I will definitely post some pictures with instructions. Actually for your setup you need to purchase H7 HID kit with some heavy-duty wires and relays (if you want them) and power ballasts through a relay from the battery to HID ballasts to remove load from X's harness. That's it.
Also 3500K HIDs are yellowish and really really rare, mostly HID kits are 4300, 4800K or 6000K which look white/blue.

If you drive in MN at night with rain, you will understand that yellow-ish light is the way to go. Lumen, lumen, lumen...

Sedoy, I am interested about the relay. What kind of relay (between the ballast and the battery) are you using? Can you post a pic of it? I agree that playing safer is better.

Here is complete diagram for you, very easy to install. You can buy regular or fuse integrated relays online as well as harness if longer than 10 cm go with 10 mm2 cross dia, as stated.


http://home.comcast.net/~saykin/hid.jpg

:banghead: :eek: :wtf: ???

What's the problem?