[lawndart]

Hi all,

There seem to be a million threads about HID's with cracked/faulty wiring. I fear I may have fallen victim to that dreaded issue.

I have an 04 v6 with 72k miles and welp my head lights are on the fritz. I've replaced the bulbs and ballasts only to have the lights flicker on/off at random. I love my reg, but with all of the drama(valve body,lights,potentially driveshaft) it's been giving me as of late I'm about ready to drive it off a cliff and call it a day.

Baja Rudy made a post regarding swapping factory hid's out for aftermarket hid kit.
http://www.clubtouareg.com/forums/f43/2004-vw-touareg-headlight-41419.html

This definitely caught my eye. Has anyone else successfully swapped out the stock setup. This seems like a much cheaper and easier solution rather than buying new factory bulbs,ballasts,and chasing wires all day long.

Any tips, thoughts or insight on this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian

 

[atxtouareg]

I'm in the same boat now. The only thing on the whole car I am dissatisfied is with is the lights. My drivers side flickers randomly, my HID fogs both went out last night. My parking lights never worked. The plastic sheathing on the wires are brittle and cracked exposing the copper.

I would just say fck it and buy new housings but at more than $500 a pop (and thats without a ballast) I am contemplating bypassing the internals and run an external set up with new lenses.

Ugh.

 

[noobytoogy]

Aftermarket HID kits use bulbs that are made to use the existing halogen bulb fitting in the headlight.

I am pretty sure that you do not have that fitting in your headlights so you need new headlight units for starters.

Then there will be other issues around the wiring, levelling, headlight washers, etcetera.

I wouldn't even start to go there!

 

[volkswagendude]

My headlights have began to flicker intermittently as well for the first 5 min of operation until they warm up. No my bulbs are not old. The interesting thing is, that once again, the same ol' strategy seems to work. When I step out and punch them, the flickering immediately stops. Yes I have checked my headlight housing connectors and have even cleaned them.

Sigh....

 

[noobytoogy]

I find the assaulting a machine often works well.

The one time it didn't was when I had spent an entire Sunday getting ready for the annual audit the next day and discovered that my electro-mechanical calculator had a defect and swathes of numbers on the stock-take were wrong.

Kicking THAT across the office in a temper wasn't a good idea . . .

It didn't take folk long the next morning to put two and two together when they saw me on crutches, the smashed calculator in the bin, and the hole in the office plasterboard wall!

 

[al83s]

If pushing/punching te headlight works - it may not be all the way in. Take it out, spray the connector with a connector spray and put it back in. Make sure that when you put it back in and turn the locking rod under the hood - it clicks. It mat take some force.
It may help to apply a layer or two of masking tape on the latch under the headlight. Take it out, flip it over and you will see exactly what Im talking about. Hope it helps. Solved flickering on mine

 

[baja rudy]

I'm still doing just fine with my aftermarket HID kit for a fraction of the cost. I'm available to help a fellow member, send me a PM with a phone number or email and I'll give you a call/email.

Rudy