1exotic

for the right side headlight towards the right side (not the small one closer in)... the bulb about 4/5 days ago stopped working. Sometimes when driving it will randomly turn on but that only happened a few times.


I went to a shop yesterday and they took the bulb out from the right side headlight and put it on the left, and it worked. After that we put in a new bulb on the right side and it didn't work. So clearly there is no issues with the actual bulbs. There must be some connectivity issue, something isn't operating properly or something is loose?

Anyone maybe know what the problem may be and what should be looked at?

I am suppose to go back to the shop next week but maybe I'd like to try and figure out the problem before.

thanks

Yuille36

I assume that all fuzes were checked, does your car have halogen or xenon bulbs?
Could be the ballast igniters.

shardul

iTrader: (1)

may be the ignitor going bad if you have xenons

iAMGod

I have a spare ignitor for an sl55 not sure if it will fit yours?

1exotic

ignitor has been checked and it is good.

fuses have not been looked at yet.


I also forgot to mention on the dash there is a message that says "right beam headlight", or something like that.


I'll check the fuses and go from there, thanks.

1exotic

correction, message says "low beam right".

just checked fuses and all are good.

abrim

I am having this Exact same problem! I went so far as to purchase a complete new headlight assembly, it worked for about 2 weeks and now the 'low left beam' warning has come back on!! It has to be a wiring issue or something right??

Is there a control module for the headlight? Like something that could have gotten damaged or broken?

OP did you ever figure out what was wrong? Any help appreciated!!

REZAT

I am getting low beam left error message switched the ballast and bulb to the passenger side and they worked fin
Can you please tell me which fuses run the Xenon on the left. I am not getting power to my driver side thanks

mikey33

To you guys having issues I would say it is probably something with your wiring, especially if you put in a new headlight. As far as the one side not working also, I think it has something to do with the wiring harness that connects into the back of the headlight. Possibly a pin is not making a connection or something got yanked. I have taken these headlights completely apart probably on four separate occasions, so I feel like these might be the issues.

REZAT

I Finally figured out my head lamp issue! I didn't know that the igniter and the ballast are two separate parts lol... The ballast Is a metal box under the headlight assembly and the igniter is on the back of the bulb for any one else who might not know this. I got a cheap ballast from eBay $80.00 and some 6k bulbs removed the bumper and head light assembly installed ballast and now I have lights again!!

BoxsterS

REZAT, you have stock HID headlight? I have the same issue, but I don't see any ballast under the light assembly.

REZAT

Yes my entire headlight system is stock. The Ballast is kinda hard to see unless you remove the entire headlamp housing. The ballast is located on the bottom of the housing it is a flat metal box about the size of your hand. On my car it is silver. Search head lamp housing removal I found a thread that was step by step it's pretty easy the only thing confusing was the two bumper brackets in the wheel well. Other than that very straight forward job and saved a lot of $ vs going to the stealership! Good luck

BoxsterS

Thank You!....Was going to take it to the dealer....now is a holiday project.

urbamworm

Anyone know how the heck my xenon bulb would turn not so xenon? lol

Recently my passenger side headlight went from being a bluish xenon color to looking like a normal halogen bulb. The light always turns on, it is just the wrong color now and didn't even know something like that was possible.

Is this something that can happen to the xenon bulbs and I just need a new bulb? And any recommendations on where to get a replacement? This is the stock xenon system.

BoxsterS

ok, the ballast was here this afternoon, R/R and it works! Since it was on the passenger side, I was able to R/R from underneath the hood (just remove the bottom shield, 8 screws). I also open up the ballast and found water in it. It must be the cover fell off last time when I replaced the bulb and water got into the lamp.

1exotic: I think the bulb is going out...

ZW211

I have this same issue and replaced the ballast under the light and that didn't
work any wiring problems found?