HID bad radio reception
#4
Where did you run the power relay wire (red wire with the in-line fuse) and harness? If you ran it close to the firewall, it's too close to the radio and antenna and will cause interference. Reroute the wire and harness around the front end of the engine compartment and that should alleviate some, if not all, of the RF interference.
#5
Where did you run the power relay wire (red wire with the in-line fuse) and harness? If you ran it close to the firewall, it's too close to the radio and antenna and will cause interference. Reroute the wire and harness around the front end of the engine compartment and that should alleviate some, if not all, of the RF interference.
#8
Some ballasts are cheaply made without any type of EM shielding. Try this: take those silver plastic bags that computer hard drives come in and wrap those around your ballasts. If the static goes away or is reduced greatly, then your ballasts are causing the radio interference. Sometimes, the wiring to the ballasts emits EM radiation. Cut strips of the hard drive bags and wrap them around the wiring. Short of building a Faraday cage around the ballasts and running the wiring in shielded conduit, there's not much else you can do to eliminate the EM interference. I had an issue with static until I got the manufacturer of the HID kit I bought to send me new ballasts. The static was eliminated. Sometimes, you'll get a bad ballast.
#9
I thought about the Faraday cage for the ballasts last night, so this morning, I went to Home Depot and picked up a roll of aluminum window screen material. Gonna wrap my ballasts up with this (because I still get a touch of static through my car stereo) and see if this eliminates the static. I'm going to wrap the wiring harness too. I'll let you know how well it works. The window screen material should attenuate the EM interference while providing ventilation to the ballasts. I don't know how hot the ballasts get, but it's probably not a good idea to wrap it in a plastic anti-static/anti-EM bag for too long.