DEPO headlight flickering issues
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From: dayton ohio hopefully it will be some place warm and sunny when i finish med school
2002 C32 AMG silver & 2003 Lancer Evolution 8 black very moded
Hey guys, I have also purchased the depo headlights off ebay with the auto leveling. The auto leveling feature does work. The lights look really nice and the lighting is not bad. The ebay seller claims that the projector inside is made in Germany but the light says on it made in Tawain, so I really doubt it. However, I am getting that same flickering problem mentioned on this thread. I know its not the ballast or the bulbs because they were working just fine before I just replaced them!! I used my stock ballast and bulbs which mounted on to the Depo headlights. I think it might be the wiring inside the headlights. If anyone has any input that would be great. Basically the headlights flicker and at times just turn off, but if I turn my lights off and then back on which every head light that was acting up turns back on and the cycle restarts. Gotta love after market stuff! 
did you have OEM before? b/c the D2R bulbs won't fit into the housing... you won't be able to lock the bulb down.
Sorry for such a long time away from thread... busy with work.
The issue I had were my bulbs were bad... the tips were burnt (should have taken photos) ebay seller replaced them free of charge.
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From: dayton ohio hopefully it will be some place warm and sunny when i finish med school
2002 C32 AMG silver & 2003 Lancer Evolution 8 black very moded
Curious as how AMG7 fit his OEM bulbs (D2R) bults into a D2S housing... the replacement bulbs I got were a D2C... universal to fit into both D2R & D2S housing.
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I have bought the exact same lights for my c240.
I programed my cars lighting to manual and it went away. but now I have another problem the housing is starting to melt and my housing came in black and its really easy to see ...
I programed my cars lighting to manual and it went away. but now I have another problem the housing is starting to melt and my housing came in black and its really easy to see ...
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C63 AMG, P30
Hey guys, I have also purchased the depo headlights off ebay with the auto leveling. The auto leveling feature does work. The lights look really nice and the lighting is not bad. The ebay seller claims that the projector inside is made in Germany but the light says on it made in Tawain, so I really doubt it. However, I am getting that same flickering problem mentioned on this thread. I know its not the ballast or the bulbs because they were working just fine before I just replaced them!! I used my stock ballast and bulbs which mounted on to the Depo headlights. I think it might be the wiring inside the headlights. If anyone has any input that would be great. Basically the headlights flicker and at times just turn off, but if I turn my lights off and then back on which every head light that was acting up turns back on and the cycle restarts. Gotta love after market stuff!
The headlight turns on flickers, then sometimes turns off completely. It happens to both sides and this just started after installing my DEPO's.
BUT here is the thing. Almost every time if I turn it off and then back on it works. Its almost like the bulb has to "warm up".
Any tips or any trouble shooting I can do?
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2006 C280 4Matic;2008 S550 4Matic
"Hdlamp mode" to Manual
I installed Depo bi-xenon recently and today I started having the same problem of flickering and complete darkness. What I found out was that this is because I changed the setting earlier today from Manual to Constant in the "Hdlamp mode" of the settings. When I changed the setting back to Manual, things went back to normal. I have provided the feedback to the eBay seller.
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C63 AMG, P30
I installed Depo bi-xenon recently and today I started having the same problem of flickering and complete darkness. What I found out was that this is because I changed the setting earlier today from Manual to Constant in the "Hdlamp mode" of the settings. When I changed the setting back to Manual, things went back to normal. I have provided the feedback to the eBay seller.
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2006 C280 4Matic;2008 S550 4Matic
I am working on 2006 C280 so the dashboard menu may be different from yours. What I did was to go through Settings -> Lighting -> Hdlamp mode -> choice of Constant and Manual. Hope this helps.
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