Flickering DEPO Xenon Angel Eyes - United Bimmer Community

**koul7** · 02-25-2012, 01:22 PM

Hi all!
A month ago, I upgraded my stock xenon headlights to a set of DEPO Angel Eyes. Although right from the beginning i had an error indication on the dashboard, the were working well, until this flickering problem showed up.

-When the ignition is ON but the lights switch is OFF, the passenger side halogen lamp (not the AE ring) is flickering, and a sound is also heard from the ballast, with the same frequency the lamp flickers.
-If i switch ON the lights, they work fine, w/o flickering.
-When i switch the ignition OFF, they start flicker again for some seconds or maybe minutes, and then they stop flickering.

I read somewhere about "Xenon HID Cancellers" and an "HID Capacitor OBC Fix" set; would any of these help?

Is there any danger of the lamp being burned due to the high frequency of switching ON/OFF?

Thanks in advance for inputs!

DEATH2000 · 02-25-2012, 07:38 PM

The stock headlights on a 97 are halogen, not xenon.

Take a read through this and see of it helps:

http://www.unitedbimmer.com/kb-e36-zkwhid.php

**koul7** · 02-26-2012, 04:26 AM

If the stock headlights were halogen, then one of previous owners changed it to xenon. What i did was to change the whole case of the headlights, without changing the xenon mechanism. Hence, i didn't change any fuse during installation, cause the lamps are the ones i had before.

I also tried changing the fuse after the problem showed up, but the flickering kept going with the new fuse as well. I dis/re-connected the ballast cables, cause i think the problem might be somewhere there, due to the "click click" sound coming out of there, the exact moment the lamp flickers.

DEATH2000 · 02-27-2012, 11:08 PM

Try hard wiring them in. I hear that usually solves the issue.