Thread: Tsuru headlights are dim is this normal?

Update: Greg V set me straight it's all good now!



Problem:

When I turn on the Tsuru headlights (low beam) they seem more dim than the original ('92) factory headlights that I replaced and they just look way to weak to me. But when I switch to high beams they work like high beams should (nice and bright). What am I doing wrong? Any pointers would be great!

Get new bulbs

i dont think its the bulbs, you probably have bad wiring, they shouldnt be dim. So double check the wiring. Wires might be backwards

I have the opposite problem. I think its the wiring but I haven't been under the hood to check it out yet.

shouldnt be dim at all, they are 3x brighter than stock lights with a razor sharp cutoff(the oem do tsurus anyway)check your grounds

Probably one of the grounds. Check the two smaller grounds in each fender well area (IE. clean and freshen up the metal).

Dudeman

Not sure If I'm following correctly? If my stock lights were working great (just took them off and replaced with New Oem Tsuru's in the same day) why would my grounds be bad? I even ran an extra temporary (testing my new ground connections, making sure they were good) ground wire from the headlght straight to the ground cable on my battery to see if maybe my ground or my new connections is bad, it made no difference at all in the brightness department.

If I reverse my connections on the headlights I can have good low beams (probably just my high beams are on the low beam side now?) and have crappy high beams (dim). Do I really need a second ground to improve my dilema or is it, that these are so much more powerful that my grounds that they need better contacts on the sheetmetal to help compensate for the power (but would it not effect both the high and low beams not just one side?).

Do I run my gound on the new adapters (center terminal on the the headlight connector) to the ground on the factory harness. Aagin thanks for the Help hope this make sense. I guess i'll keep pluggin away at this.

Again this is for a '92 model, not the newer '93-'94 models where you guys just plug and play.

sounds like you might have a break in a wire on your plug(wire to low beam first time and wire to hi beam latest time)it sounds like your not getting full voltage through that one wire. ill go look at my wiring and get back to you as to which wires go where on my setup

Nevermind my dumbass had the ground wrong on the harness. Greg V just set me straight, thanks to everyone for trying to help me . It's all good now!!! Thanks Greg V.