do you need ballasts to run hids?

[nazzurro19]

hey guys basically been working in my quadlight conversion all day everything was going well all lights working high beam main beam etc sidelights and indicators so i thought great job done

then i turned my lights on and nothing , so ive been running around all evenin with a multimeter and all the conections have continuity bar the hids and theres no power from the hids ( the lil black box connected to battery)

my high beam , sidelights etc still work so WTF

im thinking maybe the hids have died , so i was wondering if i use the hid bulb but cut the ends off n wire it to earth and the main beam wire on the car will it work as a normal bulb ?

[Amjad]

Is that the transformer thing that's died? I don't think you can use them as normal because HIDs need 1000s of Volts to run which is what that transformer thingy does. Besides it won't pass MOT with HIDs now

[nazzurro19]

well this converison has caused more trouble then needed ! , now i need to buy some 9005 xenons and the connectors and just wire them in the same as main beam , so now im carless again til i can find the connectors

[akyakapotter]

are you sure as i have hid's on mine and its got an mot ??

[Amjad]

New laws this year require Auto-levelling with headlamp washers

[nazzurro19]

amjad do you know what bulbs the quads use for high beam

cause im thinking if the high beam bulb and the main beam bulb are the same then ill just switch them over so i can still use the car

[akyakapotter]

i will see when i take mine for mot surely it will be ok it came from japan with them so i have nothing else

[Amjad]

Ant try swapping them over and see, I think they're HB3