What happend to my Xenon
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This just happend a couple days ago, Bulb seems to be bright as soon as it warms up it goes to this light purple color sorry for the crappy pic I will try to post a better one, what would I need to replace???
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I am just saying it from my personal experience. I had the same purple issue, and bought new bulbs and still had a prominent pinkness. It turned out to be the ballast for me, changed it and worked perfectly.
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Yep, ballast is usually what goes. There's no filament in the 'bulb' so there's nothing to break. The color change is from weak current or a change in frequency.
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I concur ^^^. It is the ballast. This also happen to me along with a little flickering. I changed out both my ballast just to be sure the other wasnt going out and what do you know back to new.
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southgate, before you order bulb/ballast, test and confirm the failed part.
Swap headlight bulbs [left bulb to right and right bulb to left] and let us know the results.
Swap headlight bulbs [left bulb to right and right bulb to left] and let us know the results.