I thought one of my Headlights was flickering the other day but put it down to the battery perhaps dying, it worked the next day briefly but then went completely dead.

 

On testing and swapping fuses, bulbs, ballasts about I concluded 100% that it was the ballast to blame :thumbdown:.

 

My kit is nearly 3 years old, ballasts are the old chunky ones, 6000k and the 55w type, been admirable for this period for a cheap far east kit.

 

I replaced just the ballast for a brand new slim one, again from a £20.00 kit, like for like at 55w and the bulbs have not been changed and are both from the same kit bought 3 years ago.

 

You will notice and in real life it was clearly visible straight away that the 'new' one on the right looking at the pic was as advertised a lovely crisp white 6000k colour but the old one was somewhere about a 3000k colour with that tinge of yellow about it, concluding therefore that it is the ballasts that over this 3 year period with me as actually become weary and do need changing periodically for that optimum colour.

 

Intresting conclusion Andy..cheers

Well I never knew that. Very useful info there buddy :thumbup1:

Nice one dude as one of my brothers has started to look a bit dim, will plug one of my ballasts in and see if it's that