Flickering HIDS on canbus safe kit

**Veccy55** · 2nd March 2013, 17:41

Iv fitted my hids today and they said they were candus safe lights, there is no error messages up on the screen or anything but the drivers side light is flickering but only when the engines running? When the engines off its just a solid light which tells me the kit itself is fine,
the ballasts have the resistors inside them etc so i cant remove them, any suggestions, is there a fuse i can remove to stop the car checking the bulbs or anything??

**Veccy55** · 2nd March 2013, 19:08

Ok update its not flickering constantly, it seems to be doing it every20 seconds

**kenp** · 2nd March 2013, 19:08

Get it Tech2 and activate xenon in the UEC

**Veccy55** · 2nd March 2013, 19:12

That was complete new language to me lol, is that a dealer job?

**Handyandy-UK** · 2nd March 2013, 19:22

Dealer/anyone with a suitable computer based application job.

**Veccy55** · 2nd March 2013, 20:19

So tech 2 will stop the, flickering

**nokiaman1978** · 2nd March 2013, 20:40

I activated xenon before I installed mine on Thursday, all good, tech 2 will costa about 60-70 quid there are other ways, but were not allowed to talk about it. How much did you pay for the kit bet there was a premium for the canbus kit

**Handyandy-UK** · 2nd March 2013, 20:41

Should stop it, assuming that is the cause of the problem.

Essentially, changing the Xenon Lighting setting in UEC to 'present' switches off the lamp check to the headlamps, which is about the most common reason for the flickering you reported.

**john norris** · 2nd March 2013, 20:42

I had this on one side turns out it was a faulty bulb

**Veccy55** · 3rd March 2013, 02:56

Il swap the bulbs tomoz and see what happens then il know for sure, just seems strange it works perfect till i start the engine??? Then it seems to go unstable which os what made me think its the car not the kit