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Before I get started on the problems, these are not hids in stock headlights, they are retros from Rodgers retrofits.

Anyway, I wired the harness as instructed. My high beam indicator will not go off unless my euro switch is off. Also, my low beams are always on, no matter where my euro switch is positioned, unless my ebrake is engaged, they will turn off. I have disabled my drls as well. The fogs are also not working no matter where the euro switch is positioned.

I was told that 2 pins needed to swapped on the harness for the high beam issue, but that didn't fix it.

This is the harness I have: http://www.theretrofitsource.com/co...arnesses/morimoto-9007-9004-motocontrol-bi-xenon-wire-harness.html#.U0rTuu29LCR

Completely at a loss right now.
 
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If I switch the euro switch once over, which should only be city lights, the low beams are on and the high beam indicator is on but dimmed. Pull out the switch for fogs and they don't turn on. Switch again which should turn on the headlights, and the high beam indicator becomes brighter and the fogs still won't come on.

I thought this harness was more or less plug and play but I guess it requires something else?
 
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dennisgli said:
1) Remove your fog light relay and see if that fixes the problem.

2) How did you disable your DRLs? Actually - while you are removing the fog light relay just remove the DRL relay too.
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I'm really not the technical, which is why I had them made lol, any chance you could tell me where and how to remove the relays?

I just bent the pin to disable the DRLs.
 
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Are you sure you switched around the correct pins on the blue harness connector? If the high beam indicator is on when you turn the euroswitch "On" or "Park" then then it is a very obvious sign that your pins aren't in the correct spot. Our cars colors do not match the ones in the diagram. We also have 9007 bulb connectors

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jhearty99 said:
If you look at the original post, you can see the harness i have and one of the pictures on their site shows the plug. I swapped the blue and the white pins on that plug.
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Ummm you do realize that all 3 pins need to change right? Not just swapping two of them.
What you have done is just switch around the high and low pins. But the circuit is still connected from the low beam 12V+ to the high beam 12V+ and therefore your high beam dash light is still coming on. You need to ground the 12V low beam and high beam signal.
Take another try at reading the diagram i have provided below and see if you can fix it :thumbup::thumbup:
 
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MechEngg said:
Ummm you do realize that all 3 pins need to change right? Not just swapping two of them.
What you have done is just switch around the high and low pins. But the circuit is still connected from the low beam 12V+ to the high beam 12V+ and therefore your high beam dash light is still coming on. You need to ground the 12V low beam and high beam signal.
Take another try at reading the diagram i have provided below and see if you can fix it :thumbup::thumbup:
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Ok so what your saying is I still need to swap the ground and the low beam to look like the 9007 diagram above? I will try this.

Thanks for the help, really appreciate it.
 
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jhearty99 said:
Ok so what your saying is I still need to swap the ground and the low beam to look like the 9007 diagram above? I will try this.

Thanks for the help, really appreciate it.
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Correct, your harness will have come originally with a 9004 connection which is on the left. Switch the pins accordingly to make it look like the one on the right. Hope it helps :thumbup:
 
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