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04-13-2012, 07:07 PM | #1 |
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2012 Impreza High beams = Low beams lighting
My 2012 Impreza has all of a sudden started turning on my low beams (HIDS) when I turn on my high beams or flash them. Does anyone else have this problem?
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04-13-2012, 09:02 PM | #2 |
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Does yours have automatic headlights?
The low beams on my car are properly adjusted and I constantly get people flashing their brights at me. So I turn my brights on and leave em till they pass by... If you don't have some sort of auto headlamp optioned car I'd take it back to the stealership. |
04-13-2012, 09:37 PM | #3 |
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Nope, I don't have the auto light option. I think I will bring it to the stealership and see what the issue is.
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04-13-2012, 11:19 PM | #4 |
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I'm pretty sure that hid low beams will always stay on with high beams, as cycling a hid light cause permature failure/ wear. Both my 2010 wrx and 2012 sti always had low beams on when the highs were turned on.
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04-28-2012, 09:22 AM | #5 |
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Can one of you guys with a '12 impreza do me a favor? Can you see if when you flash your high beams your low beams come on too? Please try without your low beams on & let me know. This is driving me crazy & I want to know if my car has an issue or if this is how the car is supposed to operate. Thank you!!!
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04-28-2012, 10:10 AM | #6 | |
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04-28-2012, 10:37 AM | #7 |
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I have noticed the fogs shut off with the high beams on which is normal but I am 99% sure that before I put my hids in when I turned on the high beams the low beams didn't go on. Now that I have hids and I turn the high beams on with the low beams off the low beams go on and this will eventually deplete the life of my hids. Could you check if your low beams go on when you put your high beams on without having your low beams on initially?
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04-28-2012, 11:32 AM | #8 |
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I have noticed the fogs shut off with the high beams on which is normal but I am 99% sure that before I put my hids in when I turned on the high beams the low beams didn't go on. Now that I have hids and I turn the high beams on with the low beams off the low beams go on and this will eventually deplete the life of my hids. Could you check if your low beams go on when you put your high beams on without having your low beams on initially?
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04-28-2012, 11:36 AM | #9 |
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Didn't mean to post same msg twice, sorry
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04-28-2012, 01:33 PM | #10 |
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Lows are on with my HBs.
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04-28-2012, 01:47 PM | #11 |
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Damn these cars are seemingly full of various gremlins!
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04-28-2012, 01:55 PM | #12 |
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Ok when your lights are not turned on you have daytime running lights, and when you flash, it turns on your HIDs.
When you turn on your lights for night driving it switches to your HIDs and turns off your daytime lights. Now when you flash in this mode your day lights are now your high beams. So it's a matter of which light mode you're in. Fogs only come on when yours light are on for night driving. |
04-28-2012, 03:31 PM | #13 |
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04-28-2012, 03:34 PM | #14 | |
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04-29-2012, 07:36 PM | #15 | |
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04-29-2012, 08:24 PM | #16 | |
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04-30-2012, 08:00 AM | #17 | |
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04-30-2012, 12:30 PM | #18 | |
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04-30-2012, 12:32 PM | #19 |
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05-01-2012, 07:57 PM | #20 | |
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Our cars headlights are ground switched, so you should have made a dedicated circuit to run these, otherwise you're going to run the risk of WAY too much juice through seriously under rated gauged wire. |
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05-01-2012, 08:56 PM | #21 | |
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05-01-2012, 09:00 PM | #22 | |
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05-03-2012, 11:59 PM | #23 |
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I'm sure I can get them installed and up running but I'm not sure if I can get them hooked up in a proper circuit without any help or instruction. I assume I can pay someone cheap to get them installed, in order to risk any problems down the road hopefully.
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05-04-2012, 09:55 AM | #24 | |
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05-16-2012, 12:27 PM | #25 |
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Has anyone had any issues with installing HID's and flickering because of the DRL?
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