hid headlights

[Wonkss]

I have a 2000 grand am.

Can someone please tell me if I can just tap the hi/low beam wires and run my hid lights as well as my stock headlights at same time or will it fry something. I would like to use the running light spot to mount a separate high beam halogen lights so low beams will be hid and high beams will be hid as well as the halogen high beams. halogen bulbs would be in stock wire harness with the hid plug tapped into drivers side plug? or can I tap into the high beam wire on the going to hid kit and run a relay can I even do that?

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[sam priem]

i wouldnt tap into the stock wiring harness. The wires are not meant to run extra lights and probly wont be a heavy enough wire to support the extra amps. You might fry the wire or keep blowing fuses. What i would do is run your own wiring for the lights but hook it up to the junction box with the other lights. That way the lights will work with the stock lights but will be on their own harness. I did something similar to this to a freinds chevy pickup and we’ve never had problems with it. You’ll just have to look at the owners manual/do some research online to find out exactly where to put the wires in the junction box.

[Wonkss]

do hid kits use power from the factory wire harness or does it get all its power from the fused battery wire you hook up for them.

[sam priem]

the fused wire is used only if you want it seperate from the stock lighting system (the lights would have there own switch and would not be activated with the stock lights). you would have to run your own wiring. You would ground the lights individually on anything metal, but your power would come from the junction box. You would hook it up to the power that supplies the lighting system (not just splicing it into a headlight wire). Does your car have an isolated light switch?

[Wonkss]

my hid lights have a fused wire direct to the battery. the drivers side headlight plug plugs into the hid kit and the passenger side is just unplugged so I the hid kit just using the factory headlight plug to activate a relay to turn on the hid headlights or is it drawing power from it?

so I guess I’m asking if I can tap into that plug to run another relay to turn the high beams on a different set of headlight bulbs? or just use my regular factory plugs with halogen bulbs and tap the plug to run to the hid control/wire harness thing?

sorry I’m not so good with the electrical side of car stuff more just able to change parts etc..
so I thank you for any help/advice

[sam priem]

if youre only using the factory plug to activate the relay for hid lights but not pulling direct power from them, you should be fine. is the fused wire connecting the battery directly to the light or something else? if the wire is connected directly to the light, thats where your main power is coming from.

[college man]

[Wonkss]

the fused wire goes to the harness that came with the hid kit.. in the hid harness there is a box which I would think would hold a relay ( not sure though). Its he same harness Eric used to hook up his hid lights in his video. so I want to make sure I’m fine to use a wire from the passenger side headlight (which is not used right now ) and run it to a separate relay ill add to turn on the halogen Bright’s as well as letting the hid change to Bright’s as well.(hid headlights have hi/lo) so basically I would have hid and halogen Bright’s at the same time.but will not use the halogen while in low beam setting.

Thanks again for the help and replies

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