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Old Sep 14, 2013 | 08:42 AM
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berlinetta headlight upgrade?

I was reading the tech article on upgrading headlights. from my understanding all that you are doing is adding relays and larger guage wire to a car w/o relays.

My high beams keep tripping the circuit breaker and I know some of the lights have been replaced before (I wouldn't say upgraded though).

The berlinetta already has a relay system for the head lights so to "upgrade" it would I just run larger wires from relay box to headlights? or am I misinterpreting this.

Also I'm pretty sure its tripping the circuit breaker, but could something else cause my lights to go out after running my brights for a few minutes?
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Old Sep 14, 2013 | 03:49 PM
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Car: 1989 camaro rs convertable
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Axle/Gears: 7.5"3.42 gears forth gen 2000 camar
Re: berlinetta headlight upgrade?

Originally Posted by nater
I was reading the tech article on upgrading headlights. from my understanding all that you are doing is adding relays and larger guage wire to a car w/o relays.

My high beams keep tripping the circuit breaker and I know some of the lights have been replaced before (I wouldn't say upgraded though).



Also I'm pretty sure its tripping the circuit breaker, but could something else cause my lights to go out after running my brights for a few minutes?
unless someone put put high wattage high beam bulbs in your car the likely reason the crcuit breaker keeps tripping is a skinned wire thats touching metal somewhere.or maybe your light switch is worn out.
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Old Sep 14, 2013 | 05:55 PM
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Re: berlinetta headlight upgrade?

Or a bad ground on the core support.
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