Headlights out, Please Help!

hey everyone so im driving down the road this morning to work at 5 am (still dark) and both my lights went out all at once, i have hid's but i tested both sides with a regular spare plug in bulb and got nothing, so then checked for voltage at the lights, and got nothing. checked the fuses and they are still good (pulled them out and read continuity between two points) so that tells me it is somewhere between the fuse block and the switch on the column shifter, if anyone has a wiring schematic or if this is a typical 1st gen thing and someone could help me out i would really appreciate it...i bought a rocker switch and external fuse block so that i have lights for dd but i would really like to get my stock set up working, thanks again!!

 

Just happened to mine! Had to ride to work with the highbeams on. Did you ever find the culprit?

 

Just happened to me last night as well, they would cut off randomly. I think the igniter on mine went out. Because i could have them set to turn out and it would take a few seconds before they finally kicked on. Now I'm back to crappy stock bulbs that put out less light than my turn signals...

 

check them relays!!!!

 

pull out the fake projector from your ebay lights that will help, then paint the reflector bowl with a chrome paint for even better results (i would just recommended new housings as ebay projectors are just sad)

 

check for loose grounds? good relay connection?

 

check the relays and the in line fuses on the harness if you have one. also the interior and exterior fuse panel.

not to pose a dumb suggestion but, figured i would throw it out there.

if i where you i would step up to a real HD relay harness trs sells one thats complete over kill! i'm running that one on my 55 watt fx-r's.

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=81

there you go my friend

 

Wiring diagram for a 2000: Are both the high and low beams not working?

If you eliminate all the aftermarket stuff and just have your regular bulbs installed with the factory headlight plugs, then you still have no power at the bulbs?

If you pull the turn signal / light switch back towards you (flash to pass function), do the lights come on?

 

I know mine had to do with the HID kit, fuses were all good on everything. Checked all the wires. And re-hooked up everything, I touched the positive and negative straight to the battery with everything switched on and still no power.

 

so your saying if you went back to a halogen bulb and lost the harness your lights function properly?

if so remedy is to get new harness a very good one can be had in the link i provided above.

 

Yeah my lights work completely fine with halogen bulbs. I'm not sure if it was just the harness though. I'd hate to buy a new harness and then something be wrong with one of the the igniters.

 

i doubt both ballast no matter how cheap blew at the same time but, if your talking about some ebay special kit here you never know i guess.

imo it's probably the harness it's pretty cheap 35 bucks is not a lot imo. your trying to upgrade lighting on a severe budget these two things generally don't mix together very well lol. that harness provides way more than enough insurance to protect your factory harness from your less than quality plug and play kits just saying in case they spike or some shit.

if you end up hurting your factory harness thats very expensive to replace 35 dollars now or 2,500 later if the worst case scenario takes place.

look into customlightz.com bjorn at least sells a quality plug and play hid bulb kit much higher quality than others.