is this the HID ballast?
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09' GL550, 05' S55 (sold), 04' Yukon Denali XL, 05' 745il (sold), 01' 740il (sold)
is this the HID ballast?
I am having a intermittent flickering of my HiD on the drivers side, I was told it might be the ballast. Is the picture shown below the ballast I need, if the issue is the ballast?
Last edited by nachilus; 11-27-2010 at 01:43 PM. Reason: update picts
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Yup that is the one! I just bought one on ebay coming straight from Germany costing about $70 shipped.
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09' GL550, 05' S55 (sold), 04' Yukon Denali XL, 05' 745il (sold), 01' 740il (sold)
I installed the new device and its working OK now. When I had the headlight out there was nothing else under the lights, only a set of power cable running to the device indicted.
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You must have not removed the entire headlight housing. The cable you are referring to are 3 wores that come from the ballast under the entire headlight. If you had the flickering 1st would be to replace the bulb. In this you said it was the ignitor which feeds the power from the ballst to the bulb.
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I recently changed the projector lenses on mine in exchange for some of the Acura TL. Definately a difference in light output and the accuracy of the beam.
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You must have not removed the entire headlight housing. The cable you are referring to are 3 wores that come from the ballast under the entire headlight. If you had the flickering 1st would be to replace the bulb. In this you said it was the ignitor which feeds the power from the ballst to the bulb.
I jump ahead and spoke too soon, today i went ahead and took the light assembly out for some verification and there is another module under the headlight itself see picts.....(BTW i didn't have to remove the bumper)