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Hi,

I have recently bought the same MTEC HID Kit on ebay with 8000k for Lexus IS250. The installation was done, the light works, but later, the fuse gets blown very easily, Can someone please explain why this is happening and how to fix it?

Thanks

I've recently got an HID kit from Mtec on eBay, these guys have good feedback scores and looks like their prodcts are better than the average generic craps that may break evey now and then. Anyway, the installation of the wires and bulbs was fairly smooth and problem-free. The tricky part is actually to find a right place for the ballasts. The Mtec kit comes with 4 mounting brackets and I used them to mount the ballasts on top of that shock-absorber mount thingy. The only problem I had with the kit was the length of the power cords. They are just about say 5cm too short so I had to turn the ballasts slightly and only put one set of nut and bolt for each ballast.

I recommend their 6000K bulbs as they give you perfect white light with just very very slight tinge of blue at the edge of the light pattern. I've also changed the small position lights in near the high beam, I've put in Philips 4000K w5w bulbs, they look less yellow than the stock ones but are still far too yellow compared to the HID lights. Maybe the LED bulbs on eBay can be a good compliment to the HID. Also, the HID bulbs are considerably brighter than the stock halegon, I turned the levelling knob to 3 to not to piss off any incoming traffic. Also, quite frankly I don't belive these Mtec kits are made in Japan as the seller claims. It looks to me they are either made in China or Taiwan. I'm an electronics engineer and I think the quality of the Mtec kit is very good. Hope they can last a few years.

Things you need to prepare before the instalation:

1. The HID kit, of course

2. 10mm socket that's long enough to reach the base of the air filter

3. screw driver

4. silicone sealant

5. drill and 25mm spade drill bit and sand paper

6. some cable fasteners

Installation steps:

1. remove the engine cover, refer to the menu for this, and it's simple, just secure the fastener as they may cost you $$ if you loose them

[passenger side]

2. I did the passenger side first, unscrew the top of the windscreen washer reservoir filler, turn and pull the filler and the pipe gently, and remove the filler and the filler pipe.

3. remove the cover to the light housing that is on the side of the car, that's for the low beam.

4. drill a hole in the cover with a 25mm drill bit. Sand the drill edge smooth

5. remove the factory bulb by turning it xxxxxx-wise and pull it out. Disconnect the wire on the factory bulb from the gray socket.

6. disconnect the bulb from the short wire, place all wires through the drill hole on the light cover.

7. Attach the wire to the power cord from the HID kit. You'll need to push the pin of the power cord in the provided white socket, and make sure your blue wire from the factory power cord is connect to the red wire of the HID kit's power cord.

8. apply a good amount silicone sealant around the rubber seal and the hole you drill on the light cover.

9. place the HID bulb in the light housing socket, do this gently and don't break the bulb, you need to look carefully at the socket as the three arms of the bulb base are uneven.

10. when the bulb is securely installed, apply sillicone sealant inside the rubber sealto seal the wires and the rubber seal

11. close the light housing cover tight and connect the wires (there are three sockets you need to connect and trust me you won't get this wrong)

12. put the filler pipe back to the windscreen washer reservoir

[driver side]

13. remove the screw and the fastener on the air-intake and gently remove the air-intake

14. remove the two screws on the air-filter and remove the fastener on the air-filter hose

15. disconnect the wire going to the air-filter

16. remove the air-filter

17. you now have access to the light housing on the driver side, repeat from steps 3 to 11

18. put the air-filter back and DO NOT FORGET to reconnect that damn wire to the air-filter or you'll have the bloody "Check VSC" thrown on your dash and only disconnect your battery can fix it.

19. test the new HID lights

20. replace all engine covers

Some pictures:

the hole drilled on the light housing cover:

ballast installed on the passenger side:

how the mtec 6000K looks like on IS250

stock halogen (driver side) vs 6000K HID (passenger side)