Diy Hid Xenon Install - 2006 honda civic

Hey, thanks for tuning in my name is Phil with XenonSupply.com and today we're going to be installing HID lights on a 2006 Honda Civic it will work on all 2006 Honda Civics including the SI these are the tools we're going to need in order to do the HID conversion on your car we need a tire iron to remove the tire or a 19mm socket it's the same thing a 10mm socket for your battery terminal a socket wrench preferably two flatheads one skinny one short and wire clippers one of the first things you need to do on any installation on your vehicle is remove the battery terminal the battery is located right side drivers side here we only need to remove the positive terminal just lift up this hood here this is the 10mm socket I was talking about go ahead and loosen it give it a few knocks to knock it loose you should be able to pull it up ever so slightly now once it's off you don't want to run the risk of allowing the terminal to touch the battery again close the hood and i'd prefer to take some painters tape and just wrap it around just to make sure that the battery terminal cover doesn't come loose and that there's no chance that they will touch while working on your car alright let's move on now in order for us to get access to the headlights we need to remove the wheel to get to the wheel we hve to lift the car up on a jack the jack point for this car from the user manual is this bar right here along the left side skirt now that we have the car jacked up you want to make sure we have a fail safe so the car doesn't hit the ground if the jack malfunctions I've got a jack stand here you're going to be placing it right next to the jack make sure you have it high enough right next to it just in case it fails it will at least hit the jack stand and you can go ahead and take care of that emergency when it takes place there are two types of clips that hold the wheel shround onto the driver's side there's a smaller one here and it is depresses in wait for the click sound and it's on to remove them you have to take a screwdriver a flathead lift from underneath and pull up until it pops out this is the easy one the larger one is a little bit bigger and harder to use to take it out you have to get your screwdriver inbetween and slowly work its way up around until you have enough room to take your fingers and pull it out there are three of these special type of clips on the inside of the wheel well on the back side here one, two and three the rest of them the simpler clips to use are evenly spaced all along the shroud on the inside there should be twelve in total make sure you take them all out and this entire shroud will come out and you can access the headlight housing in addition there's one clip that needs to come out from the bottom in order for you to remove the shroud properly I'm going to show you this location right now It'll be up here it's all the way up here now that we have removed all the clips we're going to remove the shroud from the driver's side wheel well come around here and take a look you're going to start from the back here all this should just come out and it's pretty simple right until you get to this section here there is some plastic tucked in around the well here you have to remove so just be very gradual doesn't have to be too strong just start pulling back don't be afraid to get a little aggressive and there you go now it's off you want to tug the back side underneath and down just like this now we have full access to the headlight housings and we can replace the bulbs now that we have the shroud removed we can get access to the headlight housing get a little bit closer here and I can show you how to remove a stock halogen bulb the stock halogen bulb is right up in this crevice here kind of hard to get access to when you do get access to it there is a small tab in the back end of that connector that you have to press down and pull away and it should come apart so we'll do that quick here push down on that tab pull down that connector should come out now you're going to take the stock halogen bulb right up here turn counterclockwise about forty five degrees you should feel a little click and it should release pull straight out and there's your bulb what I have here is a 6000K 9006 type HID replacement bulb as you can see here it has a number of wires you're going to need to connect while you're inside accessing that headlight housing so get a little bit closer here I'm going to show you how to install it now what you have to remember with this bulb is that there's a grounding wire here this grounding wire always has to be facing down when it installs into the light so this one in particular since we know it's counterclockwise from the start we're going to be twisting it clockwise now to get it back in you're going to start in at an angle so the grounding wire is pointing to your right about forty five degrees bottom and you're going to be twisting it clockwise I'm going to go ahead and do that let's see if we can get it in here and just be very careful and gentle so now it's in turn clockwise and you can feel it tighten now that's in you know a lot of wires that need to be connected to the kits ballast that you see here the larger of the wires connects right here wait for the click let that hange down here just for a minute we're going to mount it soon here there are two wires your power and your ground wire for the actual kit these wires connect to these corresponding wires from the bulb so go ahead and connect those there's only one way you can do it so you can't do it wrong the last wire connector that needs to be attached is the white connector that originally went to the stock halogen bulb it goes to a separate connector going to the HID bulb I'm going to show you how to do it right now this is the last one here it's a little bit tricky I need you to get in and see real quick here there is one tab that has to be depressed to get it in sometimes you just have to feel it out wait for the click and now it's on to clean up all the wiring you're going to need two zip ties and you're going to need to take this ballast push all this wiring through this hole here and you're going to be zip tying to this bracket that comes across and attaches to the right side of the bumper so first take your two zip ties these come in the kit actually pull them together like so take all your wiring push it through the hole and rest the HID kit on this bracket here once it's in place take your zip tie wrap it around and pull it tight you may want to put two sets in there there's enough zip ties in the kit for two sets make sure it's snug doesn't move around much and as always clip your ends and that should be that the wires are all out of the way they're not going to effect any existing system you're just going to put the shroud back together put your wheel back on and you've got yourself some HIDs