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2014 Grand Cherokee HID Kit Installation

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#1 ·
Are you thinking of upgrading your 2014 Grand Cherokee's headlights to HID with an HID kit but are unsure of what to expect?

We recently received some great feedback from forum member tvguy710 who recently installed the XenonDepot 5000k HID Kit in his 2014 Grand Cherokee and was kind enough to post up some pictures and provide feedback. The 2014 Cherokee uses H11 bulbs for the low beams meaning that you would need to order an H11 HID kit if you are considering this upgrade. While Jeep has changed the headlights on the 2014 the overall installation and parts required are the same for 2011+ model year Jeep Cherokee. Here is what you would need to get:

1) Xtreme HID Kit and select the H11 fitment. If you are unsure about which color temperature to select, keep in mind that 4300k will provide you with the closest output to stock HID lighting and the higher you go in terms of color temperature the less actual useable light output you will get. Please view this HID Kit Buying Guide for more info.

2) You will have to use a relay harness and capacitors or HID Kit error code eliminators when upgrading your headlights to HID. The Xtreme kit will come with a relay harness however you will also need to order the error code eliminators to prevent any sort of flickering or error codes being thrown when the kit is installed.

3) The XenonDepot H11 Xtreme HID kit will be plug+play. The kit will come with proper H11 connectors that will plug into your vehicle's OEM H11 headlight harness and will not require you to cut, tap, or splice any wires.

This customer chose to remove his headlights in order to install the kit which unfortunately required bumper removal. In some cases, customers have reported that they were able to access the headlights by removing the fender liner and accessing the headlights from the back (2011, 2012, and 2013 models).

Check out the pictures below to see some pictures of the 5000k HID kit installed in factory 2014 Jeep Cherokee halogen projector headlights.




















Danny
 
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#271 ·
04blackz - I also find it very odd… I think it would be best to have you send the lights in for inspection at this point - I will provide you with a return label. Please send me a Pm with your order information so that I can get this taken care of.

Steve
 
#273 ·
You can but for the sake of other drivers please do not. You will be blinding every oncoming car you see because your halogen housings are designed for halogen light output. The light produced by HID'S is thrown everywhere. If you had a 2014 you would be fine because all of those come with projector housings but the 2013's came with reflectors.
 
#297 ·
Just installed the Extreme kit on my wife's '13 Accord. Looks great. Impressed by the cutoff and width of it actually.


I happened to look in my engine bay at my ballasts. Drive side still secured. Passenger side fell down from it's mounting location. The sticky film, separated from the yellow pad, that was attached to the vehicle. So now, I have a ballast hanging there with a non-stick foam attached to it. Looks like it will be a pain in the ass to remove and clean off the ballast.

PS, I did not use the zip tie to secure. All foam pad only. The passenger side, had the ballast mounted vertically. Whereas, my driver side, is mounted horizontal, so I guess that's the difference. Also felt warmer too on the passenger side area.

Picked up some of that Scotch plastic Velcro thingy. We'll see if that will hold up better or not.
 
#299 ·
So the member who the post is originally about had a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Did his come with stock Halogen headlamps? If so did he replace the headlamps with the BI-XENON headlamps or did he just use the HID kit in his Halogen headlamps? I believe the BI-Xenon headlamp assemblies actually have a place where the ballast installs on the assemblies themselves, so no zip-tying is needed.

I just recently purchased a 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee and it came with stock Halogen Headlamps. I am badly wanting to upgrade them to the BI-XENONs but 1st I must obtain used/new BI_XENON Headlamp Assemblies. Used can be found on Ebay for 200-400$. New assemblies are 700-800$. Once those are obtained what exactly else do I need. HID Kit (Xenon Bulb & Ballast), Special Wiring Harness & Canbus boxes?
 
#300 · (Edited)
Hi this thread is about adding HIDs to 2014 Halogen Projector head lights:
They look like this:


There is also a thread about converting from 2014 halogen projectors pictured above to 2014 stock HIDs which look like this:



here is that thread: http://www.jeepgarage.org/f176/2014-jeep-oem-projected-headlight-to-oem-hid-headlight-62850.html


So you have 3 options:

1. Convert from 2013 Reflector Halogen to 2013 Stock HIDs:


2. Convert to 2014 Halogen Projector + Hid kit (probably less expansive, and more plug and play depending on 2013 Wiring Harness) (might require front end modification)

3. Convert to 2014 Stock HID (will be much more expansive and will requires custom wiring harness) (might require front end modification)
 
#306 ·
I went the really cheap route. Got a pair of HID kit OPT7 35W 6000k H11 that came with canbus kit for the low beam, Generic LED H11 6000k for fog, & Generic LED 9005 6000k for the high beam; all off Amazon for a total of $56. Took a couple hrs to put them on w/o taking the bumper off. Yeah, we Asians' small hands come in handy once in a while. :) The HID is working out nicely so far (6 miles of driving at night), no flicker, stayed on. But those generic LEDs are not putting out real light though. The color matches but that's about it, not usable light at all. Hey but they were cheap, H11: $6.39/pair and 9005: $8/pair. Will leave them on until I figure out what to do. May go with Silverstar or put the yellow stock bulbs back on.
 
#307 ·
Unfortunately individual LED bulbs do not provide enough light output. As you said they color match perfectly but the brightness just isn't there and even with our 30W CREE LED Fog light bulbs they do not provided enough output at 725 lumens.

For anyone looking to color match and get more light output, an HID kit would be your best option for your fog lights. As for the high beams, we would recommend getting a performance halogen bulb from Philips or Osram for best results.

Danny
 
#309 ·
I had some hid lights installed on my 2014 JGC in the fog lights on Thursday and one as gone out already.
I have them in the head lights with the canceler box and no rely and they are working fine for almost a year now

The fog lights - looks like the shop installed race sport brand... they did not use a rely but did use the cancelers like the head lights.
they were working fine the first day but then the driver side went out. I had some extra bulbs and balest along with connection wires around the house from my 11 JGC, so i tried to see if it that will work but still no luck. I then put the stock light back in and connected it to find that that does not work now as well

- however i don't know if the old hid stuff i had in the house was working to begin with. I did not want to take the working head light out to check..

if i am right using a rely only uses one stock connection - but i still want the stock connection to work...
but if that is right then i can always use the other sides connection with the relay

Does anyone know whats going on and what i can do to fix this

please help and if you have any recommendations i would like to here

Adam
 
#315 ·
XenonDepot, may i suggest something? What may help the forum members is a picture diagram of all wiring set up the right way ex: h11/9006 connector ( wire colors and polarity)->relay connector ( matching colors to correct wires -> CANBUS connector ( matching the color wires to correct wires on stock harness connector) -> HID ballast connector. this would sort a lot of confusion....
 
#318 ·
Thank you for your suggestion, the HID kits are designed to be plug and play so its just a matter of connecting the male and female connectors to each other. Its very rare that there would be polarity issue but in case there is, the HID kit does have polarity protection. In the odd chance there is, nothing will light up and you simply need to reverse the polarity on the connector you connect to your stock harness (EX: H11, 9006, H10 & ETC)

Here is a great video we together on how to achieve this:

How to Reverse Polarity on an HID Kit - YouTube

I ordered xtreme hid kit 5000k + cbfix .
I'll do full write up with pics starting with bumper removal + wiring layout etc
Congrats and any additional tips or info would be appropriated to help other members out :)

Danny
 
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