I have a 05 VIII. It does not have HID or Fogs. I purchased a pair of JDM IX RS Headlamps. The JDM lamps do not have HID or Fogs. I have searched all Headlamp related post but they do not resolve my issue. With that said, the shop doing my repairs installed these lamps. Here is what they do:

When I turn the parking lights on, the parking lights come on. When I turn the lowbeams on, lowbeams do not come on, but the parking lights stay on. When I turn the brights on, the brights come on, plus the parking lights stay on. All blinkers are working correctly.

Question is: What do I have to do to make the low beams work, and make the parking lights not come on when the low beams and high beams are on. Thanks in advance for any help.

Ok, here are some pictures

This is with the low beams on. Take note, that they do not come on, but the parking lights stay on.




This is with the high beams on.



This is the USDM OEM low beam connector




This is the JDM OEM low beam connector




This is the JDM OEM low beam bulb.



Here are some side by side comparisons. USDM is on the left, JDM on the right

 

Bump. Does anybody know anything about this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

Anybody?

 

Check the connection, it may need to be reversed. Dont know if its similar to whe your installing HID's but when I installed mine, I did the same thing and the low beams wouldnt come on until the plug connection was reversed.

 

Yeah reverse connection!

 

Yeah my buddy had the same problem. We just reverse the connection and it work right away.

 

Alright! I guess I will have to check it out. Its -23 degrees here today and my garage isnt heated. So this might have to wait awhile. I dont want to crack any plastic pieces taking the bumper cover off. Thanks guys!

 

So, I added some pictures, as you will see, there is no way to reverse the connections, as they are completely different. Anybody else have any ideas?

 

are the parking lights supposed to go off when the headlights are on? that seems kinda odd to me

 

Take some pics of the other end of the JDM connector. it looks like it terminates differently than OEM one

 

dont cross the streams!!!!

(jk, reverse them as mentioned above)

 

Disregard. They are suppose to stay on. I was confused b4.


The other end of the JDM connector can be seen in the picture above, and they are identical.

You cant reverse the high beam, with the low beam, they are different connectors and wont fit.

 

SOLVED: Bought new light bulbs and everything works. The ones that came with it looked ok but i guess they werent. I bought a new set of H1 bulbs from, I hate to say it, AutoZone. Thanks to all that helped.

 

lol autozone is ok for some things, did u pick up a nice chrome 4x4 stick on badge? Glad ya got it goin

 

sweet lights man!! what happened to our 60 degree weather last week?!?!? i was loving the dry pavement but now we got 6 inches in sioux foo :'(