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Old 09-01-2010, 11:27 AM
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HID Foglight Bulb swap question.

For those that deal with aftermarket HID kits could you be so kind to help me out.

I have (well now I guess we can say HAD) a nice aftermarket HID kit installed in my fog lights. Well when we swapped the E63 front end on the fog lights take H11 bulbs and not the 9006 bulb that the E55 has. My kit is still installed just not plugged in at the moment.

My question is what will it take to get H11 bulbs to work of that ballast and ignitor or will I have to purchase a whole new kit? I know they sell wiring harnesses and the wattage stays the same so hopefully it's that easy.

Any help would be much appreciated. TIA
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you can use the same ballasts and ignitors, all you have to do is get the wiring harness for the H11 bulb and you are set
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you can use the same ballasts and ignitors, all you have to do is get the wiring harness for the H11 bulb and you are set
shardul, you are the man! Thank you for the quick response
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what HID kit do you have Tgoss? I want one but I keep hearing about error codes and what not. Also did you change your city lights?
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Originally Posted by jayhawkblk
what HID kit do you have Tgoss? I want one but I keep hearing about error codes and what not. Also did you change your city lights?
To be completely honest I'm not sure. My stereo guys had it left over from when they took everything out of my Jeep SRT8 and since the headlight bulbs from the jeep matched the fogs they just threw them in there. It was really trick too, he had them wire it so the fogs came on automatically like the headlights do. I'll take a few pics for you when I get under the car this week and fix the diffuser too. I know for a fact that with my city lights and the fogs he had to wire in resistors to not throw codes.
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To be completely honest I'm not sure. My stereo guys had it left over from when they took everything out of my Jeep SRT8 and since the headlight bulbs from the jeep matched the fogs they just threw them in there. It was really trick too, he had them wire it so the fogs came on automatically like the headlights do. I'll take a few pics for you when I get under the car this week and fix the diffuser too. I know for a fact that with my city lights and the fogs he had to wire in resistors to not throw codes.
Cool that would be great. Do you know what bulbs you used for the city lights.
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Cool that would be great. Do you know what bulbs you used for the city lights.
Ya I just bought some 194 Wedge LED's. They are super white and seem to match my 8000k lowbeams perfectly.

I got them from autolumination.com they are from china land.
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All you'll need is to order some H11 HID bulbs and your good to go!

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