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01-20-2010, 12:12 AM
Got my Bi-Xenon HIDs in from MENG today, put them in tonight with the awesome assistance of iaminsider! Thanks Pete.
Figured I'd give those thinking about it a DIY. Not a hard job, but it is tight in there, about 1 to 2 hours max if you include hiding all the wiring and Ballasts.
Here is the kit as it comes from MENG Motor Sports, even includes gloves for handling the bulbs.
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/MENGKit.jpg
The bulbs have metal housings over them that look like this...
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/MetalBulbShrouds.jpg
We installed them with the housings on and there were some very odd lighting patterns, so we took them out, removed the metal housings, just two tiny phillips head screws in each and they pull right off... the results with them off was dramatic. Definately want to remove them for use in the xD!
To start you need to unplug the stock wiring harness from the back of each HL, remove the dust cover, just pull it away from the edge of the light housing, it is black rubber. Inside of the HL assembly is a retaining spring. Looking down on the HL the release is on the left hand side of each HL, so towards the engine on the drivers side and towards the fender on the passengers side. There is a loop of silver spring metal about the diameter of a standard paper clip, push in on this gently, then down, it pops out of the holder and then pivots around the bulb towards the right. Once moved over you can simply pull the stock bulbs straight back and out. Here are the instructions from the xD service manual.
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/xDHLRemoval.jpg
Once those are out, place the HID bulbs in the same orientation as the stock bulbs came out, there are three metal tabs that sit into recesses, they will only go in one way. Hold the bulb in place, rotate the retaining spring back to the left and push in and up to secure them in place. (This is the most difficult part of the job as it is cramped).
Remove the rubber dust covers from the stock bulbs and thread them back into place over the three wires coming out of the HID bulbs, then slide back onto the HL housing. You will probably want to seal the ends over the wires with Electrical tape as the opening that was over the bulb end on the stock bulbs is too small to fit over the end of the HID Bulbs.
The wiring instructions are pretty straight forward. You need to hook the 20 amp fused feed directly to the positive terminal on your battery. Next to that is the main ground, I grounded the main and the ground for the drivers side HL to the same bolt on the fender behind the battery.
You can't really plug the wires in the wrong spots as the connections are not interchangeable.
There is one three pronged connection on the drivers side that is different from all other connections, this plugs into the drives side HL harness where the stock bulb was plugged in.
Make your connections to the Ballast and the HID bulb on the Drivers Side, run the connections and ground wire for the passenger side across the car, I grounded the passenger side to the engine mount bolt. Make your connections to the passenger side ballast and HID bulb. Turn em on.... if they do not work, you may have the connections to the Ballasts reversed, as the connector will go on either direction, flip them over to correct this.
Here is the wiring diagram..
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/bixenonSetup.jpg
Passenger side all wired, you can see the three connection to the HID bulb just above the radiator cap, the ground is to the bolt right in the center of the picture and the Ballast is hanging there waiting to be hidden.
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/Passengerside.jpg
Drivers side all wired up, The Ballast is sitting on the fuse box, the red wire with the red fuse holder in the lower left corner is the power feed going to the positive terminal on the battery. The wires are grounded to the bolt you see just behind the upper left corner of the fuse box. At eh lower left corner of the fuse box, you see the white connector with the black connector going into it, that is the hook up from the harness to the stock head light harness.
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/DriversSide.jpg
Stock xD Headlights before swap:
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/StockBulbs.jpg
Side by side, my xD on the left with HIDs 6000K, bulb shrouds still on, my daughters xD with stock headlights on the right:
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/HIDLeftStockRight.jpg
HIDs with bulb shrouds removed:
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/IDBulbsnoShrouds.jpg
A little vid of the finished project!
YU94XYiKlAc
Figured I'd give those thinking about it a DIY. Not a hard job, but it is tight in there, about 1 to 2 hours max if you include hiding all the wiring and Ballasts.
Here is the kit as it comes from MENG Motor Sports, even includes gloves for handling the bulbs.
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/MENGKit.jpg
The bulbs have metal housings over them that look like this...
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/MetalBulbShrouds.jpg
We installed them with the housings on and there were some very odd lighting patterns, so we took them out, removed the metal housings, just two tiny phillips head screws in each and they pull right off... the results with them off was dramatic. Definately want to remove them for use in the xD!
To start you need to unplug the stock wiring harness from the back of each HL, remove the dust cover, just pull it away from the edge of the light housing, it is black rubber. Inside of the HL assembly is a retaining spring. Looking down on the HL the release is on the left hand side of each HL, so towards the engine on the drivers side and towards the fender on the passengers side. There is a loop of silver spring metal about the diameter of a standard paper clip, push in on this gently, then down, it pops out of the holder and then pivots around the bulb towards the right. Once moved over you can simply pull the stock bulbs straight back and out. Here are the instructions from the xD service manual.
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/xDHLRemoval.jpg
Once those are out, place the HID bulbs in the same orientation as the stock bulbs came out, there are three metal tabs that sit into recesses, they will only go in one way. Hold the bulb in place, rotate the retaining spring back to the left and push in and up to secure them in place. (This is the most difficult part of the job as it is cramped).
Remove the rubber dust covers from the stock bulbs and thread them back into place over the three wires coming out of the HID bulbs, then slide back onto the HL housing. You will probably want to seal the ends over the wires with Electrical tape as the opening that was over the bulb end on the stock bulbs is too small to fit over the end of the HID Bulbs.
The wiring instructions are pretty straight forward. You need to hook the 20 amp fused feed directly to the positive terminal on your battery. Next to that is the main ground, I grounded the main and the ground for the drivers side HL to the same bolt on the fender behind the battery.
You can't really plug the wires in the wrong spots as the connections are not interchangeable.
There is one three pronged connection on the drivers side that is different from all other connections, this plugs into the drives side HL harness where the stock bulb was plugged in.
Make your connections to the Ballast and the HID bulb on the Drivers Side, run the connections and ground wire for the passenger side across the car, I grounded the passenger side to the engine mount bolt. Make your connections to the passenger side ballast and HID bulb. Turn em on.... if they do not work, you may have the connections to the Ballasts reversed, as the connector will go on either direction, flip them over to correct this.
Here is the wiring diagram..
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/bixenonSetup.jpg
Passenger side all wired, you can see the three connection to the HID bulb just above the radiator cap, the ground is to the bolt right in the center of the picture and the Ballast is hanging there waiting to be hidden.
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/Passengerside.jpg
Drivers side all wired up, The Ballast is sitting on the fuse box, the red wire with the red fuse holder in the lower left corner is the power feed going to the positive terminal on the battery. The wires are grounded to the bolt you see just behind the upper left corner of the fuse box. At eh lower left corner of the fuse box, you see the white connector with the black connector going into it, that is the hook up from the harness to the stock head light harness.
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/DriversSide.jpg
Stock xD Headlights before swap:
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/StockBulbs.jpg
Side by side, my xD on the left with HIDs 6000K, bulb shrouds still on, my daughters xD with stock headlights on the right:
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/HIDLeftStockRight.jpg
HIDs with bulb shrouds removed:
http://i724.photobucket.com/albums/ww250/w_kary/IDBulbsnoShrouds.jpg
A little vid of the finished project!
YU94XYiKlAc