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      11-05-2007, 10:05 PM   #1
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MTEC HID ballast - Its like the 4th of July in there!!!

No wonder why this POS doenst work.... it like the 4th of july inside that box...

This damn kit gave me trouble from day 1. - now it wont even turn on.



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      11-05-2007, 10:25 PM   #2
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thats ot good....LOL.
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I have one that does the same think. Does anyone know whats wrong?
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      11-06-2007, 12:04 AM   #4
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Bad ballast, should return it or ask for replacement at the first day problem occurred. MTECH ballast is not different from any other HID kit, they are either from china or taiwan. No such of thing made in japan.
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      11-06-2007, 12:07 AM   #5
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I gave up on HID kit.....
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      11-06-2007, 11:59 AM   #6
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damn Marc, sorry to hear that....i would just try and get ur money back.
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      11-06-2007, 09:51 PM   #7
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damn Marc, sorry to hear that....i would just try and get ur money back.
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its almost a year old already though.... and the guy from e-bay MTECPOWER is kind of a douche bag
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      11-07-2007, 07:24 AM   #9
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its almost a year old already though.... and the guy from e-bay MTECPOWER is kind of a douche bag
the ebay listing says mtec HID kit is not supposed to throw errors...
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      11-07-2007, 08:21 AM   #10
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get the new ballast from MTEC Taiwan agent. Not from Ebay!
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get the new ballast from MTEC Taiwan agent. Not from Ebay!
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I got mine, works perfect. No error!
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I got mine, works perfect. No error!
I got one from that same source and they still gave error!!

I think us e90's are just screwed!!
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