Hey guys,

On the way home tonight I noticed one of my lights seemed to reflect as "purple"... I figured it had to do with the car in front of me but I was wrong. The whole way home my side of the car was giving off purple light. Got home and looked at the car and sure enough the driverside headlamp is givng out purple light... what could be happening with my headlamp? Bad bulb? HID problem? This is the first car with factory HID's I've owned so I dont know the symptoms... here are some pics so you can see. Any help appreciated.

 

uhhh for some reason, it looks to me like you have one HID and one regular bulb... The HID's on my evo give off a purple hue. Mine look similiar to your left (passenger side) headlight in your first picture.

 

That wouldnt be possible though would it? To put a regular bulb in an HID core? The lights both matched the passenger side before (blueish color).... the passengerside looks completly purple too (more than the picture makes it look like)

 

A regular bulb would never work with an HID system so thats obviously not the problem, I was more of making a joke. Honestly, I dont have any idea what would cause that problem.

 

it look like your bulb is defective. i never seen HID give off that color before.

 

thats more like a redish light

when hid give up red lights it meant hid its time to replace it

should be under warrenty

 

Sorry man - long day and I didnt catch it

 

thats what im thinkin... hrmm just went bad i guess?

yeah looks alot redder in the picture - but yeah red/purple...

hrmmm - would they consider this a wear and tear item?

 

well the car has bumper to bumper warrenty

i've read on this fourm ppl have the same problem

and the delaer replace it

i would go to the dealer for em to replace it

cuz it's not cheap

 

Lets see what they say tommorow mornin

 

Did you replace one of the bulbs recently? If you did it takes a while for the new one to "break in" and the colors will be different.

 

I would swap out that bulb something is obviously not right with it.