Huge Hid Problems! Radio Interferance

JRod707 · 10-06-2007, 09:56 PM

okay after months of decision making i seen HEMI4ME's thread i made up my mind and went with 8,000K low's and fogs (was gonna go with 12,000K originaly) so they came in today and i expected the flickering problem so instead of wiring up relays i bought the plug & play anti-flickering kit from stealth auto.

when i turned them on in the garage, the signal to the radio in the garage went out. i turned off the lights and reception came back. Same thing happens to the reception in the car! when i turn the HID's on i get no signal on the radio! wtf!

anybody else experience this????? any way to fix this??

JRod707 · 10-07-2007, 01:17 AM

okay ive done some research and i guess this is a common problem. if it helps the brand of the HID kit is Xentec. if i dont come up with a solution im going to return them on monday. Is this something that has to be sacrafised for the upgrade? is this an unspoken about issue thats supposed to be ignored?

**CUEBALL** · 10-07-2007, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by JRod707

okay ive done some research and i guess this is a common problem. if it helps the brand of the HID kit is Xentec. if i dont come up with a solution im going to return them on monday. Is this something that has to be sacrafised for the upgrade? is this an unspoken about issue thats supposed to be ignored?

I wouldn't ignore it for any upgrade.... I would try the company tech line, or get another brand. Give the vendor a call to see if they can help...

BIG SMOOTH · 10-07-2007, 11:33 AM

This actually happened to me when I wired up my AAC halos, so when I reinstalled them, I grounded the neg. wires to different grounding posts away from the posts that were already grounding other things and made sure the wiring I had ran away from other wires in the engine compartment. Now I have halos and clear radio reception. Try it out, may make the difference.

JRod707 · 10-08-2007, 01:09 AM

i dont have an aftermarket relay hooked up, i ordered the stealth auto anti flicker capacitor. so should i splice the OEM negative headlight cable and ground it somewhere? i did some research and this is a very common problem. I think the ballast is sending out some sort of signal that kills everything. It sounds like a high pitched sound maybe only dogs can hear. i can barly hear it when im up close to the ballest (its the dog in me)

**STAY AWAY FROM XENTEC HID'S**

Mass300c · 06-22-2008, 06:24 PM

hey i actually just installed xentec hids and i am having the same exact problem, were you able to fix them??

JRod707 · 06-22-2008, 07:14 PM

i returned them and got a different brand

Mass300c · 06-22-2008, 07:40 PM

ok, i just spoke with the company that sold the kit to me, they are a middle man type seller, they said they would ship me a different ballast other than the xentec, you think that will fix the problem, is so what brand works well. thanks man,

BLACKOUT · 06-22-2008, 08:15 PM

Thats wild, my stealth auto HID kit is from DDM and they do whine when they fire up but the radios good.

GROUNDED · 06-22-2008, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Mass300c

ok, i just spoke with the company that sold the kit to me, they are a middle man type seller, they said they would ship me a different ballast other than the xentec, you think that will fix the problem, is so what brand works well. thanks man,

Where are you in MA?

I have like 18 sets coming from Hidgate if you want in. I run 2 onmy 300 and now 1 on my trx450r atv.