Their website, www.mccullochmotors.com doesn't have any working links and I'd like to find a retailor on Long Island. Does anyone have a phone number or any thing for them? How about a shop on LI that stocks their kits?

Mike~~

McCulloch does not associate themselves with their HID kits since it is illegal for them to be sold in the USA. I highly doubt there are any distributors in NY.

Mike if your aftermarket stuff has crapped out, why not just ditch it and go with OEM D2S/Phillips on the Morettes? All readily available and OEM-grade hardware with no worries.

What OEM stuff do you mean Dave, like regular bulbs? Problem I'm having with the Morettes is that this is now the second passenger side ballast that the car has blown out. The McCulloch kit was bought new and was less than 4 months old. Do you think you can maybe help me out with the wiring on it?

What I mean is that, as you can read in the HID FAQ thread, with H7 lights you can use off-the-shelf D2S bulbs instead of the questionable rebased ones, and OEM type ballasts along with them. I have such a setup, you've seen it.
How are your ballasts wired, are they directly grounded? If you did a "plug and play" install with the negatives plugged into the factory low beam grounds that may be why your ballasts are blowing. They need a direct ground.

Well I wired in a direct ground but never used it. I know your set-up is great but where could I get something like that around here?

I also have to tackle why my hi-beams won't turn on any more. :rolleyes: Do you know if the Morette wiring diagram is online any where?

That's the point, you don't need to buy the parts locally since they are standard items. I sourced my bulbs and ballasts on Ebay, the only extra thing needed was the centering adapters which are on Ebay as well. You can probably get it all on the HID forums also.
The high beams have a separate fuse, that's the one by the battery. Check it, it may be blown. Do you use standard 55W H1's in the high beams or higher wattage? Higher wattage ones will cause the fuse to blow and I wouldn't recommend them with the stock Morette wiring since it still uses the factory ground switching.

Well I checked all the fuses and such today, everything is fine with that. I don't even know where to start looking with all the wires and relays that these damn headlights have, especially with no wiring diagram to base any thing off of. The high beams are the bulbs that came with the lights, and they both worked fine until I don't even know when. No chance that they're both blown since I replaced one less than 5k ago.

I wouldn't even know what to search for on eBay, but I'd like to first figure out what's causing all these problems.

Big thanks for your help Dave.

So did you check the inline fuse by the battery? I'm willing to bet that it's blown or maybe the wiring is damaged.
As far as all the relays and stuff in the Morettes you don't even need all that, I bypassed that stuff a long time ago. Especially with HIDs, all you need is the direct ground and headlight power. Mine are wired that way.
What to look for? A set of Phillips LQV-212 ballasts with the right-angle bulb connectors, or the Hella equivalent (they are actually identical inside), a pair of OEM D2S bulbs (Phillips or Osram), and a pair of D2S-H7 adapters. That's it.

Yup, I actually replaced that fuse at the beginning of the summer. The wiring might be damaged in an unknown spot, but I replaced the melted male/female connectors with a posi-lock today and it didn't help anything.

I will definatly look into that stuff, but I have a source for a replacement ballast right now so I might just do that. Worst part is that I leave for school on Thusday and I kinda need everything working by then.

Well I have the headlights unbolted and hanging out in the front of the car right now. Not sure where to go from here, but all connections look to be good? From what I can see the body shop hacked the factory harness to wire it to the Morette's. The passenger side high beam also has two wires (power and ground it seems) running from the bulb location to a relay on the drivers side. This looks like its supposed to be like that. I'm really at a loss of what to do here to get every thing working.

Well the newest update is that after unwrapping some of the electrical tape I see that the body shop used vampire taps. Everything still seemed to be tight and in place so I didn't mess with it.

Ugh, ok now the passenger side low beam is not working at all. I moved the working ballast/ignitor/bulb to that side just to test and it wouldn't turn on. At the time there was nothing plugged in on the drivers side...so this might be indirectly related?

So now I'm left with 2 blown ballasts, no passenger side low beam, and no high beams. F'n great. :rolleyes:

Well I re-checked the fuses and the RH Headlight fuse was blown, so that solves the passenger side no low beam issue. Still don't know what to think about the high beams though.

Vampire taps on headlights, not to mention HIDs? Ugh. Time to redo it from scratch.

Vampire taps on headlights, not to mention HIDs? Ugh. Time to redo it from scratch.

Oh man, guess I'll have to either do it when I'm back from school or next summer since the car won't be on the road this winter. Do you still have the diagrams for the Morettes?

I never had any diagrams, never needed them. You don't really need all the relays and crap, best to simplify.

Do you have any pics of your wiring? What would I do...just run the wires coming out of the car direct to the bulbs and then just chassis ground?

Well I plugged the stock bulbs back into the lights today and everything worked fine with the engine off. I start the car tonight and get ready to drive off...turn the lights on...and not a second later the passenger side bulb blows out.