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      10-25-2015, 08:52 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Dackelone View Post
Those finned ballast are for xenon AE(Angel Eyes), not the headlights but for the AE rings. It was a common way to mod the yellow-ish AE to bright white. Most people just replace the AE bulbs with M-tech bulbs though. Or code the AE's to run a slightly higher voltage and look less yellow in color.
Got it, that may explain it.


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Originally Posted by Dackelone View Post
He then pulled his bumper off and pulled out the headlights... he thought it must have been the control unit under the headlight that was bad. In doing so he burnt up the "good" ecu from the driver's headlamp. It was his footwell module that was bad. In the end he needed one passenger headlight, two headlight ecu's and one footwell module and one headlight light bulb for the passenger headlight(bc he also broke that). It was a mess.
Well.... shit. Is there a way to make certain the footwell module is still good before replacing all the other parts? I just ordered a new ballast AND a new Adaptive Light Control Box, so that would be really bad to blow those up.
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