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Leave Lights On Or Turn Them Off With Hid's


Jeph430

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I've heard with HID's it isn't good to start the car with them on. Doing so allows them to start up for a brief second then turn back off while the car cranks before coming back on. I can imagine this adds stress to the bulb and components. I usually leave my headlight switch in the on position no matter what so they are always on when I'm driving, what do you do?

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I've heard with HID's it isn't good to start the car with them on. Doing so allows them to start up for a brief second then turn back off while the car cranks before coming back on. I can imagine this adds stress to the bulb and components. I usually leave my headlight switch in the on position no matter what so they are always on when I'm driving, what do you do?

I would just leave them off except at night because the bulbs are expensive and have a limited life. Not sure if there is added stress to the ballasts or bulbs from what you described above, but I would think it would make sense that there is.

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my original bulbs only lasted about 2 years, which seems too short for me. I now turn the cars parking lights on, start the car, then turn the switch to the day or night setting. I am looking at a different lighting source for daytime running lights to avoid this.

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I drive like this during the day every day .

Rather burn out bulbs then somone one not see me and pull out in front of me

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But then at night drive with the low beams and fogs both HIDs on .

But maybe if I didnt run the fogs during the day it would give me a exucse to use the HORNS more offten :lol:

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my original bulbs only lasted about 2 years, which seems too short for me. I now turn the cars parking lights on, start the car, then turn the switch to the day or night setting. I am looking at a different lighting source for daytime running lights to avoid this.

You have cheap bulbs though. We already establish that :P

Mine are always on. Two BMW over 10 years never burned a bulb, 850 has had them since 2001 never burned a bulb, truck has always had them never burned a bulb.

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I added a relay tied to my ebrake so the headlights (HIDs) won't come on till I disengage my ebrake. This goes well with my habit of always setting the ebrake when i park, because I start the car with it engaged, thus no HID shock just before starting the engine.

Also have a little bypass switch in case I ever want the HIDs on while the car is just sitting there with the engine off.

This is the way to go IMO ;)

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I have my lights on whenever I'm driving but I turn them off before I turn off the car and don't turn them on until I have started the engine... but for some reason, when I put them in my T5 they flash when I lock my car and the halogens didn't. I haven't investigated it yet but I can't think of a reason why they would if they plug into stock harness and I wired them the same way as I did in my old car <_<

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