Headlight unit is blown?

[High on PSI]

Well I was on the JDM cruise tonight. One of the best turn ups I've seen.
Anyway I noticed my driver side light started flickering as if it was struggling to stay on so I quickly turned my lights off and back on, it stayed off while passenger side was working fine.

When we got to our first destination I checked to see if it was lose, nope.
Checked to see the the bulb looked blown, nope.
I then put the bulb on the passenger side and it worked, so my bulb isn't blown.

I have a Mazda 6 MPS Luxury that comes with factory HID lights. The bulbs were switched to 6000k D2S Bulbs. Any idea what's broken and how much it would set me back?

[rayd]

Sounds like ballast is blown, can be a cheap fix if you go with generic, or abit more if you go OEM...


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[High on PSI]

Do you know if buying a kit of ebay will be an easy install? Just replace it where the OEM one goes etc?

[High on PSI]

Just got quoted a ballast has to be shipped over from Melbourne to Perth, and it costs..................
$1,100

No way I'm paying that much to get a headlight working

[Brackaus]

i had water damage in my lights... $2300 for the complete repair .. thank god it was under warranty. On my old mazda sp25 i had MUsecret ballasts' cause they were smaller then the rest but you should ask the site sponsors, i'm sure they could help you out

[High on PSI]

Wow I didn't think these things would be this expensive!
Maybe I'm better off buying a quality HID kit for a few hundred?
Do you know if I need to buy a kit that still maintains the same bulb type?

[rayd]

Wow I didn't think these things would be this expensive!
Maybe I'm better off buying a quality HID kit for a few hundred?
Do you know if I need to buy a kit that still maintains the same bulb type?

ye man just get a ebay kit that has D2S bulbs and splice it in

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alternatively - buy a second hand headlight, they should have the OEM ballast screwed into the bottom of the unit.

[High on PSI]

Splice it in? I thought I can just unplug the factory ballast thats blown, unscrew it from the headlight. Screw on the aftermarket ballast, and connect a plug into the ballast? I am bad at this wiring and splicing stuff..

[Jrbris]

get troy's hid kit 89 bucks .. change both balists and ur sweet under 100 and its fixed. i would just be concerned why it blew thou.

[rayd]

Splice it in? I thought I can just unplug the factory ballast thats blown, unscrew it from the headlight. Screw on the aftermarket ballast, and connect a plug into the ballast? I am bad at this wiring and splicing stuff..

the ballast doesn't have "plug ins", you need to splice it.