Hi all,
Recently purchased (this afternoon in fact) a 97 TF Magna. The thing has HID headlights, the problem is one side I only have parkers, no headlight, the other I have parkers and normal beam (although its extremely bright, no doubt not legal). I am assuming the car (due to it being a single beam HID Kit??) may not have high beam at all as I noticed one bulb on each side doesn't even have the connector plugged in, I assume those are high beam?

Anyway, I'm happy to get rid of the HID, but I don't have much time tomorrow and I really need headlights tomorrow night, so some idea how it MIGHT be hooked up so I can convert it back to stock would be appreciated so I know what I am going to attack with only a few hours tomorrow.

From a little Googling, do I assume correctly that:

1. Normal headlight bulb is replaced with a HID
2. Ballasts have what looks like a thick cable coming out, does that go to the new bulb, and also a power connection, that somehow hook up to the vehicle wiring harness (input power) somewhere?
Its tight fit and I can't quite see where everything goes. I'm hoping the original wiring hasn't been cut but only spliced so I can plug and play back to original.

How am I with my assumptions?

Thanks.

My ones I had were plug and play type thing so the original wiring should be there plugs and all including the high beam for you to reconnect just follow the wires from the HID bulb to the ballast and then to where they plug in. You will however have to replace the bulbs so removal of the washer bottle on the drivers side and replace the low beam bulbs with H4 bulbs and if needed H1's into the high beam socket. Hope this makes sense to you and that its that easy

Thanks very much. I'm hoping its that easy. I will attack it in the morning.

Will report back!

Holy shimoly, what a job that was!!

Drivers side was easy peasy since removing the washer bottle is easy and gives great access. I unplugged the HID bulb, put in a new Narva 50 Plus, plugged the original wiring in, fire it up and voila, drivers headlight works. Didn't even struggle with the clip, although I expected I would.

Passenger side was a tad harder. Is it normal to have a cover with a fold open lid on these things? That and the lower battery protector was a pain to get my hands in, but a couple of swear words and that's all done too. GREAT! Even managed to untangle all the HID wiring and pull it all out including the ballasts. I noticed it also has a Hi/Lo converter box in the HID system too.

Thanks, I have headlights for tonight, I was stressing about that!

Sounds like a battery cover mate.

Interesting about the HID's though, where they a replacement bulb by itself and still had the standard black plastic bit that the standard globe plugs into?

I've never owned a car with a battery cover to tell the truth. It makes working on the headlight difficult with fat hands!

I'm not 100% sure, but think I know what you mean - you know how the standard bulbs have like a 3 pronged 'base' that the silly clip pushes against, well the HID bulbs slip into an adaptor that makes it look and act like a normal bulb hence it just replaces the standard bulb.