I take the female piece that the oem harness plugs into, and scratch away the plastic bump that prevents the male piece (from the DDM kit) from going in multiple ways?
I just finished installing my Apexcone's into my 09 sedan. Worked fine. Nothing too tricky for the wiring but had to use the jumper cable (which they told me I wouldn't need but couldn't do it without).
As you know, doing the passngr side really sucked.
The cable which looks like an extension which is in the 0 ring and didnt come connected to anything I had to use since the white connector which was originally conntected to the original bulb on my 09 cant go directly into the ballast due to a tab on both sides on the ballast connection, not just on 1 side like the original bulb.
With the "extension cable" I plug the bulb into that and the other side into the ballast. It went into the ballast connector instead of going in and and covering the entire connector on the outside. For 9006's they said that this "extension cable wasn't needed"
i got two kits from ddm for the fogs there was an extra wire or two
all i did was connect the factory harness to the ballast then to the bulb those extra wires from the bulb are just hanging there
On the 09 Si from the link from C8V6C he's saying that the polarity on the 09 fogs are reversed.
Is this what you have? He's talking about the power to ballast I think, reversing + and - .
I have an 08 si... I guess I'm confused if the wire from the OEM harness should be going directly to the ballast or to the plug I have as shown above...
If I get you right, if the wire from the stock harness where the original bulb was CAN go right into the ballast you can do this as is common with 9006 bulbs.
In my case I couldn't cause the connector from the original bulb on my 2009 Sedan didn't. There's no need to use the extra harness. As you may have noticed in the instructions which came with the kit they show the guy cutting it off if not needed. Also, it can be used as an extension cord for mounting your ballasts way out of the way if youd like.
So I fully understand reversing the polarity, the question is...
Should my OEM harness plug (that previously went into the halogen bulb) go directly into the Ballast, OR should it remain how I have it as pictured? If I keep it how it is in the picture, then should I be reversing the polarity on that plug... or on the plug that goes into the ballast?
EDIT: I guess thinking about it logically, it does not matter because those red/black wires are essentially an extension to the ballast, and nothing more. I'm going to try flipping the plug's at each ballast... wish me luck
Keep everything the same. As long as the plugs are fully connected, you have them setup right. Each plug is a male and female end and can only be connected to each other.
If you did the ABOVE correct and the bulbs do not flicker or attempt to turn on, try the BELOW :
Take the power plug that connects to the factory harness, and remove that little groove in the HID plug....this will allow you to install the factory plug "upside down"
If that doesnt do the trick, send it back to DDM and they will get you a new setup
well, on your stock connenctor, you have the blue wire connected to the black wire on the ballast. And you have the black connector on your stock wire to the red on the ballast.
Black with black, red with blue dude lol. Thats why theyre not turning on. And using tape to hold them in place? Dont blazer projectors use 9006 bulbs?
The purple (I think youre seeing it as blue) is +, just checked that myself last night with a meter. I think that only constants I found were black was always ground.
Ah, it seemed like that was the only way that they fit. I never considered that the kits were wired opposite of our cars.
I bought my fogs from a member on here who said he had been using tape as well. The projectors that I have definitely don't have anything to hold a bulb (any type) in place.
Did I get screwed? I thought I'd read other people on here saying that they'd used tape for their retrofogs.
Also, thanks for everyone's help guys. I didn't mess with it today, but I will tomorrow and hopefully get them running.
I was talking about the fogs... not the HID kit. As in, I was lead to believe that ALL blazer projectors were like the ones on the retro that I purchased.
BTW, the base for blazer fogs is 880 so 880 kits will fit like any other without any tape.
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