How to convert from hid to halogen

Can for just a minute you scrap the relay just for a second and a wire up the H4 socket and this picture that I'll send in a minute and turn the light on and see if it comes on just for the hell of it it'll only take a second you have nothing to lose. If that interest you I can try and directly send you the picture The car is sitting right in front of me with the headlights out and the sockets still wired up like they were working last month The car is getting ready to go to the scrap yard after I get finished stripping it

 

Ok, I’m so busy that I shouldn’t have tackled this project in the 1st place. I wanted to just go with halogen instead of Led though. Maybe that’s the difference in the “low and high beams on simultaneously” issue between Led and halogen, idk. Thanks for the replies

 

Side note, how good is your coolant pump, the one that diverts to the heater core or whatever?

 

That's the inverter coolant pump you're thinking of I think on the Gen 2 it's on it's behind and below the left headlight it pumps cooler from the inverter through the inverter loop and back into the radiator I guess. I'm not using the stock pump anymore I gave up on those I don't want to pay near $100 for the Toyota branded one which supposedly will last a few years to knock offs won't make 10 months so I'm using the pump that goes in between the brake actuator and the brake ABS pump there's a 14-volt pump that sits up there looks like a little spa pump. I'm not sure what it's pumping for but I took that off an '05 car and put it where my inverter pump was on my '08 and haven't looked back it's moving water like crazy.

 

I saw a fan somewhere in this mix All I am saying is you don't want to go down that road or maybe you do because you want to replace soon I don't know but the fans go to making a racket I have several sets here hanging up I'll be glad to sell to anybody who would like No problem The fans are not cool to me literally

 

There are plug and play LEDs for the HiD bulbs, no wiring changes required. ALLA Lighting makes one.

 

did the hid to halogen conversion recently. seems to work well. followed chad douglas's instructions in post #33 in this thread. will post some photos later.

 

i apparently didnt take many good photos.

(note especially car pink wire to relay red. and car orange wire to relay white. on the driver side.)

 

How did you do this without cutting wires? I have the bulbs, but need sockets, and connectors to plug into the HID vehicle wiring harness.

 

Right the a l l a lighting kit uses the same plug or socket rather that's in your car now that goes to the bulb You remove that bulb from your system and pick up the 12 volt wire already inside your hid housing. And then plug the lamp into the D1D2 whatever that socket is called and before you put everything back together you should be able to turn the light switch on and see the side you just completed turn on the first step and then when you flip the low beam or the high beam switch forward the shutter should lift up move back and allow the full amount of light to show blinding you in the process while you're standing there with the bulb hanging out weaning against some whatever and then you put all that together If you're using a kit that's not made tomato to the d123 or 4 socket assembly that HIDs are using then you'll have to cobble stuff up not a real problem to do but then there's all the splicing in the nonsense I bought this kit that we're talking about here not from a l l a but from another vendor I think it was $39 no plugs no wiring no nonsense literally just take out the d series bulb replace it with the LED plug the little half round socket plug into the socket that's in the car and then pick up the straight 12 volts or else leave it like it is at works but it's using power although just a little of it to light the lamp the new LED from the ballast so when the ballast dies then you'll have to open the thing back up and pick up straight 12 volts to the d series plug in LED or you can do that now makes no difference to me personally.

 

I am in the process of scrapping out he HID from my 2007 Prius. The original post by Texas Hybrid with the relay listed is a few years old, and the Amazon link is not working, but.... when quoting the post, I was able to see the product number/identifier!! It seems you cannot post Amazon links on this site and have them show up properly.

This appears to be the style of relay to use in the conversion process. Just search this part #.

B07V9M7FMH

I've ordered up the new pair of housings, bulbs obviously and the harness already, so just about there. Will get some of these relays, and once it's working, I will go the extra step of getting the Toyota covers that fit over the back of where the bulb goes in.

Dumping the HID is the way to go.

I hope to make a number of pictures of the process, and will gladly post them here once done. I have a helper.

 

I am relying on post # 20, with the clarifying information from post # 33 in order to do the conversion from HID to halogen as best possible.

 

Why are you going to halogen they just get hot and burn up your sockets Why not just convert the HIDs to LEDs with the a l l a kit there are no relays needed going from either way The relays in the car will do just fine been using this this way for many many years with either HID aftermarket HID factory or LED obviously aftermarket I don't see why all of the write-ups are needed and all of the relays and any of this The car already has relays for each headlamp and they are adequate for whatever you're going to put there unless you're putting tractor bulbs or something and then you're not using these lamps assemblies and all of that so there's always that the car is adequately set up with relays already on the lights I'm not sure why you would add extras You're not going to be removing the ones that go with the car they're in the fuse box. So are you wiring around the factory relays to put in wiring relay and the bulb that's already there but I guess carry on