Anyone have hyper white or Hid kit for their boxster? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

bigborian · 08-31-2009, 10:43 AM

ok here's a quick step by step

1.) remove the carpeting on the sides of the front trunk. You should see a small round plug looking thing on both sides go ahead and remove that it should pop right out.

2.) there is a small nut driver looking thing in there that you have to use a very small deep socket to turn. I used a 4mm deep socket (regular socket won't worry because the socket is too thick for the small hole) When you turn it, it will pop the entire headlight housing off. This is because there is a small latch looking thing underneath it that pulls the headlight out of the socket that it's attached too.

3.) On the back of the head light there is a cover with a tab ont he top side of it find this and push down and it comes right off.

4.) The bulb that you want to change is the top bulb. There is a little metal clip that holds the bulb in remove this and take the bulb out of the housing.

5.) Once the bulb is removed from the housing you can disconnect the bulb connectors and remove the bulb completely. It's connected to the yellow and brown wires that i believe go to the battery, as a live wire and a ground.

6.) Now take your new bulbs take off the plastic protective casing and put them in the housing of your head lights. You should be able to make the plastic piece that is on the bulb and the housing fit snug. I also put the metal clip back on half of the bulb to make sure that it sits tight.

7.) Now the part that i thought was tricky. You kit comes with a 35w Ballast, you want to connect it all up so that everything is connected together. The only part that you have to connect to the original head light assembly are the red and black wires that go into the former yellow and brown wires that the last bulb was connected to

8.) Then connect the bulb connectors to the ballast connectors male/female to female/male

9.) There is another connector that you connect together as well male/female i think both comes off the ballast but i'm not 100% sure i don't remember. If you connected everything up you're good to go. Make sure that the connections from the bulbs are going to the ballast and that's really all you need.

10.) put everything back and your set.

MidMotor2TrunkToter · 08-31-2009, 08:28 PM

I have litronics in my 2000 S and I put ultra yellow bulbs in my high beam and fog. The high beam gives a Lemans look at night and makes for much better contrast when driving a high speed. I also replaced my front city lights with white LED which look better and last longer than the standard bulbs.

djomlas · 09-01-2009, 07:16 AM

the cheapest HID slim kits can be found on DDM site. (google DDM HID or something like that)
they were 50 bux shipped.
have those on my bike and they are awesome.

TimAustinW · 09-04-2009, 07:10 AM

Thanks for the write up BigBorian!

I'm installing mine today!

TimAustinW · 09-04-2009, 10:08 AM

Wow! What an amazing difference. Best cheap mod I've done to my boxster. :dance:

bigborian · 09-04-2009, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by TimAustinW

Wow! What an amazing difference. Best cheap mod I've done to my boxster. :dance:

Looks nice eh!? take some pics and post i wanna see. When my wife drives the boxster and i'm next to her she turns the whole left side of the road blue haha

The write up help u out?

TimAustinW · 09-04-2009, 12:55 PM

totally helped. I pretty much ignored the instructions that came with. Installation was easy and I did it all in about half an hour. If I had to do it again it would probably take me ten minutes now that I know what I'm doing.