[e-love]

Last night I was being flashed a lot so I pulled over at a gas station and it turns out that my headlights were not on, even though I had them turned on. My high beams still work, so I drove home with those on. Anyways, I'm concerned about my headlights not working-- I just replaced the stock bulbs wtih Silverstars over the summer so they are pretty new bulbs.
Also, I'm in Southern California with all the rain right now, so I was wondering if maybe water had compromised my headlight electric system. A previous night I was driving through the storm and my battery and brake lights came on even though both were fine...is this water damage? I'm confused! New headlights and working high beams :nuts:

 

[kabob]

The Eclipse's H4 bulbs are dual-filament meaning that one bulb contains a filament for both low and high beams. It sounds like either your low-beam filament burned out or, as you speculate, that you have a short with your wiring. Easiest solution is to plug your stock bulbs back in and see if your low-beam works. If so, your current bulbs had burned out.

 

[eclipsegt66]

I just got my car back from the paint shop a week ago and my right fog light was out. I took it back and they fixed it for free, they told me one of the wires were corroded. As of today my right headlights low beam isnt working??

 

[e-love]

Took my car in to get looked at because it wasn't the fuses and I didn't have my stock bulbs with me to switch out, as per my mom's concerns about headlights and the safety issues involved (no matter how old I am, I'm always her baby girl :hug3: )
The cause is unknown but my new silverstars both burned out at the same time. It might be that the alternator was affected by all the rain storms and burned out the low setting of my bulbs. ANYWAYS, now have to get new bulbs....I said a resounding NO to Mitsu's $30/bulb+labor offer to put OEM lights back in my car HAHAH. Anyone have any preferences as far as bulbs go? I'd like some quality bright, white ones and I just thought I'd ask before I go buy some new ones this time around. :happysad:

 

[littleman54321]

just go to autozone, they have all kinds, just get the OEM equivalent, be like $5. ive found that most bulbs that are "whiter" dont light up as well at all. unless you have some kind of uber $90 bulb, i dont think its really worth it. just mho.

 

[Glenn]

I like PIAAs.

30 bucks for putting in headlight bulbs? What a ripp-off.

 

[spoolup]

just get the regualr bulbs from autozone, the silverstars are about crap. My friend works for autozone and they get returned quite regularly. I think the headlights are 9003s (use the book near the bulbs to cross reference. I just this morning replaced the headlights in my friends car, but the plastic connector from the vehicle harness melted itself to the dam bulb, these were just regular bulbs, no bling high wattage blue crap or anything. so I had to get a new connector and wire that in. I cant belive how hard and, sorry to say, rink-a-dink the 3G headlight housing are to get to.

When you installed the headlights the other day, you didnt by any chance happen to touch the glass bulbs did you? Hope you get your problem figured out.

 

[eclipse03gts]

i was going through headlight bulbs like crazy. just as you said, the low beams would burn out, but the highbeams would still work. As someone suggested on here, I installed a harness upgrade kit. The stock one looked fine, no melted wires or anything, so i didnt think it would do any good for me. It seems to have solved the problem. So far, so good with the new harness. as far as bubls, i got some xtreme vision bulbs from a group buy and they were my favorites so far. they supposedly have a lifetime warranty although I sent my bad ones back while ago and havent recieved new ones yet.

 

[e-love]

When you installed the headlights the other day, you didnt by any chance happen to touch the glass bulbs did you? Hope you get your problem figured out.

I popped the silverstars in August...so they were working fine for awhile, and I took special care to not touch the bulbs (used latex gloves and tissues) Thanks for the input! Its not that hard to replace the bulbs, just a pain to get them in the housings straight and get that stupid spring hooked around the back (being right handed means that doing the passenger side is a bitch!) Actually, mitsu wanted $140 total to replace the bulbs after checking....it was worse than I previously mentioned

 

[Zalec]

take a volt meter out and see if there is current going through them.