Anyone with the Xtreme (Xenon Depot) kit for the 2IS fogs...How did you guys do a relay from the driver's side fog light to the battery?

The relay wires from the passenger side fog light to the battery just reaches but from the driver's side to the battery is too short.

Anyway I can connect the driver's relay side to the passenger relay?

Thanks

 

I have that kit. I didn't go back to the battery.. way too much effort. Just plugged it in to the stock harness. It's been over a year now I think.. no problems. I say you should just do the same thing. One thing i remember you have to do is to reverse the wires on the harness connector to get this to work.

 

you dont need a relay for the 2IS

 

Thanks for the heads up. I actually was reading a thread where you posted some pictures on doing this.

 

You guys didn't blow any fuses directly connecting the kit?

 

The point of the relay is to get constant power and to insure you dont blow any fuses if the HID draws to much power. The stock wiring harness might not always fire up the HID fogs since it might be different wattage.

 

^ I was afraid of those issues in the beginning as well but nothing ever happened with my HID fogs. No blown fuses no nothing. Lots of folks with our IS's have done the same thing. Very few bother to dissasemble the bumper and run longer wiring to get the fogs hooked up to the battery. So far I have heard of nobody who's blown their fuses or melted anything with using the stock harness for HID fogs. The few people with problems with their fogs are those folks who put in aftermarket halogens that are higher wattage and melting their harnesses. I've had mine on over a year already if anything would have happened it would have happened already. Especially since I have aftermarket HID lowbeams as well.

 

SO you basically been running 2 sets of HID's on your car with the stock wiring without the battery wire harnesses and there is no problem at all? not even the ballast not firing up since it is of a different wattage??

 

^You're correct no problems on the HID Fogs with stock connector only connection for over a year.

I got a set of xenon depot lows that uses the battery harness but has the one light not coming on sometimes problem, and a set of HID fogs that directly connect to the stock connector but have never had a problem and never had a case of one light not coming on.

Funny thing is the kit that uses the battery harness is the one that doesn't fire on sometimes and not the fogs. My fogs are directly connected to the stock connector so you'd think that would have issues but that's not the case. The ballast not firing up on one side of the low beams is a separate issue and probably has to do with the quality of the kit itself since many others on here with the same kit that uses the battery harness get the same problem. This problem also happened before I got HID fogs so it's unrelated.

One HID light not coming on occasionally is a issue I also have on my other car a volvo c30. It's just an aftermarket kit "thing". Sometimes it's just hit or miss. I have someone from this board sending me a capacitor harness to equalize the power to the low beam bulbs. We'll see if that works.

 

For the record, I did do the relay method for my HID fogs. Passenger side relay length was fine but had to extend driver's side to reach battery. Only problem was my 6500k HID kit looks like 4300k (bright white). I still have to give Steve some info on the bulbs to resolve the issue though.