HID's shut truck off

[mint-6oh]

I had a set of hid bulbs and ballasts with the relay harness (35w 6000k) that were in my 06 f-350 6.0l with no problems. Today we put my old headlight hids and a new set of foglights in my friends 00 F-250 7.3L. When you turn the foglights on the idle drops a little then comes back to normal. When you turn the headlights on the truck shuts off. If you turn the headlight on before you start the truck it just cranks and wont start. anybody run into this before or am I special???? thanks in advance

[mint-6oh]

It seems the problem is the combo of hids with his dp tuner. I'll have him call dp tommorrow to see how to/if there is a fix for this

[Bosshogg89]

Man had the same problem with mineI made a thread about it one guy told me to re-do the ground wire. Dont know if that would work or not cause i pulled them. Didnt realize it happened till i was driving down the road! Scared the hell outa me and i took them out as soon as I got home!

[Ryan Rønning]

The fix is a different chip like a TS. Its electrical interference that causes it.

[mint-6oh]

Searched around online. Apparently this is pretty common with a dp tuner and hids. Dp either doesn't shield the cable from the pcm to Thier control or doesn't shield it well. Read on another forum that instaling a ferrite bead on pcm end of dp cable fixes problem. Got 2 ferrite beads from radio shack and it fixed the problem. Dp was no help.

[Ryan Rønning]

Glad you got it fixed

[Kennyv]

Originally Posted by mint-6oh

Searched around online. Apparently this is pretty common with a dp tuner and hids. Dp either doesn't shield the cable from the pcm to Thier control or doesn't shield it well. Read on another forum that instaling a ferrite bead on pcm end of dp cable fixes problem. Got 2 ferrite beads from radio shack and it fixed the problem. Dp was no help.

What size ferrite and where exactly did u mount them?? Any pics of install?? My trucks works fine with headlite hids but sometimes when i turn on fog hids it acts up but most of the time works ok!!

[mint-6oh]

Not sure what size they were. Got 2 of them at radio shack for $10 and clipped them around the cable to the dp tuner at the pcm

[Kennyv]

Originally Posted by mint-6oh

Not sure what size they were. Got 2 of them at radio shack for $10 and clipped them around the cable to the dp tuner at the pcm

Ok no worries i will do a search and see what pops up,, thanks!

[ToMang07]

C'mon guys....

Just because it only happens with DP tuner doesn't mean it has anything to do with the tuner...