GX kit installation is different than the LX. I believe on the GX, you simply plug in the XD harness and connect the ballasts/igniters to the battery. On the LX, you need to at least cut the vehicle's harness at the low beam and crimp the XD harness to it. Better yet, buy a second set of the gray rear headlight caps (comes w/ the H1 halogen bulb to vehicle harness connector), cut off the connector and and solder it to the XD harness. Use that spare gray cap and drill the hole for the HID bulb. This way, you don't alter the vehicle's harness or original gray caps in any way, and you could reinstall the OEM halogens (on both or one side) w/ original gray caps in case you blow a bulb while out of town, or you get busted by the light cops and have to show the vehicle's lighting is OEM halogen. I keep the original gray caps w/ halogen H1 bulbs in the rear storage compartment just in case.

 

Hi Jim Chow,

The LX would be the same as the GX in terms of the connection to the OEM headlight harness. I dont see why wire cutting/splicing would be necessary.

Steve

 

Just a note for the LX owners, after having done an install that proved it was difficult to fit the H1 bulb within the hole, if you happen to break the ceramic coating along the wire that runs alongside the bulb, don't worry, it will still work.

And 1st prize for the most commas used in a sentence - goes to me!

 

No, unless you've changed the LX H1 kit harness lately. There isn't a connector on the XD harness that mates with the OEM vehicle harness w/o modification. You either have to splice it in, cut the end of the vehicle low beam harness connector off and crimp/solder the XD harness on, or obtain a OEM connector that fits the vehicle's low beam harness. Either way, you MUST do some kind of splicing/crimping/soldering to install the XD harness. IIRC from the GX writeup, you just plug the XD harness to the vehicle's harness. Not so w/ the LX.

 

Hi Jim,

How lond ago did yo uget your kit?

Steve

 

Around May '06. It has the thin philips ballasts.

 

Jim, this is not what I found with my install... No splicing/cutting of any wires were necessary. Like I said earlier, the only "mod" was to drill a small hole through the back cover of the housing to run the ballast wires out of the bulb to the battery. The wires connect to the battery and you are done. No splicing/crimping/soldiering of any wires to connect the harness. But mine was done January 2006... Maybe Steve (XD) changed the kit later, no?

 

nope. The adaptors have always been the same.

Steve

 

How did you get the relays in the XD harness to trigger if it's they're connected to the vehicle's low beam harness (or the section between the gray 2-prong harness connector and H1 halogen bulb connector) in any way? I installed my ARB sahara bar fog lights about the same time, so maybe I'm confusing the two. On my XD installation, as I mentioned before, the goal was to make it hot swappable w/o modifying the vehicle's harness or splicing in any way. My solution (as was 1LoudLX's) was to buy a second set of gray caps w/ H1 to low beam harness connectors and drill my 25mm ish sized hole in that, then use the 2-prong connector that would normally connect the H1 halogen bulb to vehicle harness to connect the XD harness relay to vehicle's low beam harness. For $4 each for the gray caps w/ 2-prong connector, you can't go wrong and can switch back to the halogens at any time by just removing the cap w/ HID bulb, unplugging the gray plug to the vehicle harness, installing the halogen H1, then replacing w/ original cap and connecting the H1 wire to the harness.