Re: H4 install problems-catching my car on fire!

["Alex Ting" <alex@millenniumsolutions.net>]

Hey Brad,

Thanks!
this is exactly the info I was looking for.  The H4s
I have are AutoPal, but didn't come with the adapters.
Is the mail archive on scirocco.org?

I may be going the whole relay setup in lieu of the adapters,
but I just had this incredible urge to put in the H4s right
away because I can't see a damn thing at night..........


Alex Ting
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Millennium Solutions Group, Inc.
8303 Sierra College Blvd., Ste. 150
Granite Bay, CA 95746

Phone: 888-801-2001 or 916-797-9998
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Sheridan <brads@mindspring.com>
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: H4 install problems-catching my car on fire!


>At 01:48 PM 1/4/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>    I tried posting this earlier, but don't know if the first one  went
>>thru......
>>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I hope you all had a great New  Years!
>>
>>So, I went to install a pair of 55/60 H4s yesterday and  some
>>really bad things started to happen.
>>First, I pulled the original  ones and plugged the H4s in, strictly
>>  Then, I turn them  on, and my high beams are glowing
>
>Did your H4s come with a small wiring adapter? While the H4 uses the same
>plug as stock, the wires are in a different order. So if you plug in an H4
>without an adapter, you will get that dim glowing. See if the H4s came with
>an adapter to plug in otherwise, you will need to rewire the connector
>yourself. Someone in the last month or so posted the differences in how the
>stock vs H4 connector was wired. I'd search the mail list archives for
that.
>
>>Can someone please  tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>1) Are you using relays? If not thats one thing you should do.
>2) You can't plug the H4 directly into the stock socket. Find the adapter.
>My Hellas came with one. If you got another brand, you may be SOL, and have
>to modify your connector yourself. You should be able to do this yourself,
>using the info on the connectors found either in the archives, or it may
>also be on someones tutorial on installing relays.
>3) If you made your own relay harness, you wouldn't have to worry about #2
>4) See #1
>
>Brad
>
>
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