hey guys,
I have a problem. I installed hid's for my is250 headlight and foglights two weeks ago. Tonight, after I started my car, I turned on my headlights and my passenger side hid headlight was flickering. Once the bulb was warmed up, the flickering stopped and it ran perfectly fine.

Is this a bad ballast or amperage problem? It's a 35w kit from ddm tuning

 

might be a bad ballast.

 

^^^that's what i was thinking too.

 

may be you need relay to have consistent 12V from the battery

 

Alright new problem. I took off the plastics and checked/secured the connections. When I tested it, it started up fine. Tonight I was driving to the mall and the passenger light flickered for a second. When I came back from the mall, I started the car up and turned on the lights. My passenger side hid barely lights up. It flicks on for a second and shuts off.

So is my ballast almost dead or is it not getting enough power to start up the hid? I don't think it's a power issue since the driver's side powers up just fine. Could it be the ballast?

 

Bulb might be going out. My passenger side before it died would go on for 10 minutes, then turn off. Letting it cool down it would repeat, I went with Garax bulbs.

 

^^^ You were right. Can someone just confirm my findings below?

Today, I tried switching the ballasts with each other. The passenger side ballast worked with the driver’s side bulb, but the driver’s side ballast did not work with the passenger side bulb. I then proceeded to completely remove the hid kit. When removed, to test if there was a problem with power and confirm if there was bad ballast on the passenger side, I hooked up the passenger side ballast to both bulbs. The driver’s side bulb lit up and worked. When the passenger side bulb was attached, it would flicker for a few seconds but then it would not work at all.

So what I have done was to confirm that it is not a ballast problem or power issue, but a bulb problem.

 

That is be exactly how I would test it too. Glad you found your problem. So, it's a bulb issue. Just stick with oem bulb this time.

 

^^ I was thinking just screw the hid's and go with sylvania or something. Only thing that is keeping me from throwing these hid's away is that there's a lifetime warranty on them. How well they handle the warranty will determine whether i go back to the halogens