I have xenon headlights and they are flickering. When they flicker it is both of them, not just one side so that leads me to look somewhere other than a ballast. It is like they turn off and back on in a blink of the eye. If anybody has any insight it would be greatly appreciated.
This is happening to me also. I am getting a rear passenger bulb out warning. I replaced all rear bulbs still getting bulb out and flickering. How many thousand is the LCM going to cost me??
mine flashes time to time, gets on my nerves. I dont have a bulb light flashing out though...I'm thinking ground, but figured i'd get around to it when I change my icv and oil..
I think that is just for when you are adding HID lights to a car that didnt have them OEM. Mine and the original posters problem is with original xenons installed and looks to be a ground problem.
I have since replaced both fron bulbs and my lights still flicker. I looked at my tail lamp housing and they are different than the ones that there is a fix mentioned for above. I have a 2000 and that fix is for 2001+. I examined the connectors and they showed no signs of corrosion or burnt connectors. I was hoping maybe someone eles with a pre-01 car might have had this problem and fixed it. Any insight is much appreciated.
I had the same problem, and also have the same housing as you. For me it was as simple as taking each bulb out of the socket in the taillights and putting them back in. Problem solved-no more flicker.
Two months later the problem came back. This time I went to autozone and bought new bulbs. ($12 for all six bulbs)
Havent had a problem since..........
No its not.
Flickering lights is a sign of a bad ground, usually in the tail lights. It causes the light control module to keep resetting itself, and this causes the headlights to flicker.
I don't know how to fix it, but I know someone that had that same problem and he took it to the dealership and they got fixed for him for about $800:tsk:
bad ground is not always true. i have been workin on hid systems for over 3 years on different cars. yes it can be a bad ground but can also be a bad ballast. as for your case it doesn't sound like a ballast because its both of them. but i'm just saying flickering CAN be caused by a ballast going bad
yes i know that, but there's no point in telling him it's the ballast since both are doing the same thing. it's got to be somewhere before the wires split.
umm...have lots of hid bulbs laying around haha. have a couple ballasts. i put a set in the bike, had to fabricate a way to mount the bulbs but they look amazing
sounds like me, i have a bunch lying around as well. took a set and put it in an older merc for fun. also supercharged a ballast to 80w. and that thing is bright, a lot brighter than our bixenons with the highs on.
i had the same problem. i took out my tail light and the ground was bad in the left tail light. there was a burnt area in the plug where the ground wire ends.
To Dan and everyone on the threads that said a bad ground in the tailights would make the xenons flicker you were right and your suggestions certainly helped me out. I was a non believer but a piece of new wire and about 10mins. proved it was right. I did a simple fix but will make it more permanent later. I tightly twisted a wire to the ground strap in the tailight housing and then connected it directly to ground via a nut in the truck. I did this on both sides. Not only no flicker but the headlights seemed brighter also! This was to prove that was the problem. Will do something more perm. later. I would like to add that the connection on the tailight housing had a very slight discoloration only on the drivers side. I had to look close to see it. The passengers side was liike brand new. Also when the lights would flicker sometimes the drivers headlight would go out. BMW certainly does not go overboard on their wire sizes!
i was going through the same thing as you are on my prefacelift coupe, my xenons would just randomly flicker until i resolved it by tracing a bad ground from the resistors on my tailight housing ( the black thing that holds the bulbs for your tailights ) i had replaced the one that had the burt resistor, next i bought a new xenon for the one that was out and everything has been fine.
ok so I am getting this problem and it all started when I changed my rear driver side blinker. My headlights will flicker. Also It still says the I need to replace the bulb. But when I turn on the head lights that indicator goes away.
Should I make a new ground wire for the rear brown wire?
I know its an old thread but I used a thicker ground wire and so far the blinker indicator light is off and my lights dont flicker so(crossing my fingers lets hope it stays that way)
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