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GTi Dead Xenon?


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My beloved GTi is struggling a bit getting it's drivers side headlight turned on! When the lights are turned on, all 4 fronts light up, but the drivers side xenon flickers on and off full brightness before turning off after about 10s.

I have a suspicion it's the (rather expensive) ballast that's causing the problem, but wondered if anyone else has had a similar issue?

My battery hasn't been overly happy recently, but given regular usage it seems to charge fine and the battery issues predate the light problem.

Any help would be much appreciated!!

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Stick the ballast in an oven on low heat (no more than 60c) for a few hours/overnight. It may be nothing more than moisture causing the high volts to break over...

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  • 1 month later...

Just in case anyone has the same issue and is searching around (and balking at the price of a new ballast), changing the bulb seems to have done the trick for me - so far so good...

Cheers for all suggestions

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