Phillmatchett Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Finished installing HIDs in my 2013 Ford Edge Sport "Canadian Version" and everything seemed fine at first. Both lights came on, althought some minor flickering at first with intial start-up, but RetroFit said that it was normal. Noticed some problems next day when I decided to take it for a road test. My lights would't turn on in auto. I had to put the car in park and rotate the dial back and forth and eventually they'd work. Now my driver side won't come on at all. I have the 5Five ballasts, with the relay harness, along with a capacitor. I also have couple resistors, but was told I don't need them as long as I'm not getting any lights/errors on my display/dash. I have two canbuses kicking around as well since I was sent them by mistake, they aren't installed. I decided to redo my grounds, since some might not of been the best choices. I grounded everything to the chassis and made sure to sand off any paint. I just have the one ground with the fuse going to the positive terminal of the battery as recommended. I'm going to recheck my connections and grounds again today. Any suggestions before I give Retrofit a call. I noticed a lot of people ran into some problems installing HIDs here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjsockett Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 I may be wrong because it's not something that I had to deal with, but I thought that in Canada and California you did need the canbus because the headlight is used for drl's. I have five5 5000k hid's and have only had the auto not work a couple of times. For me it seems like the auto doesn't work if I start the vehicle too fast. If I pause for a second on "on" before switching to start everything work works perfectly every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinzII Posted May 26, 2014 Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 Do you have the Warning Canceller and Capacitor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phillmatchett Posted May 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 Do you have the Warning Canceller and Capacitor? Yes, I have the capacitor connected, but not the resistors. I'm not getting any warning lights on my dash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinzII Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 When I got my 2011, it had DRLs but was not Canadian (Found out that Cali had a DRL law). After I got the capacitor and warning canceller, my HIDs worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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