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.
Some people said instructions were not included, mine came with it. Looks straight forward. Need to pick up some rivets and borrow volt meter from a friend.
Well look what arrived today Some people said instructions were not included, mine came with it. Looks straight forward. Need to pick up some rivets and borrow volt meter from a friend. Install write up coming soon.
I'm really not sure what is involved in switching over your headlight assemblies to OEM HID headlights. I can assist you with upgrading your headlights to HID with a 2014 Grand Cherokee HID kit.
Hello everyone. This is my first post, but I've been lurking every since I decided to purchase a 2015 Grand Cherokee Altitude that I picked up last Saturday. I installed the XenonDepot 6500k kit with the relay and canbus fix today. I verified the polarity on the factory head lamp connectors were correct prior to installing everything. I really wonder if this is a problem with the actual headlight wiring or the way the HID kit is wired. I really can't see Chrysler producing cars with the same hardware, but different polarities on the headlight wiring. Doesn't make sense. I did not remove the front bumper, I just moved the ECM on the right side and removed the airbox on the left side to gain access to the area. Plenty of room to 'hide' all the related hardware. I also just used the 'jumper' locations on the right side for power and ground. Had to extend the left side wires to make it over there. Still a PITA to get the bulbs installed. Lights work fine, but I am getting a triangle shaped 'shadow' coming from the right side light. Starts at the light and angles down and to the right. I assume this is the problem with the bulb not being indexed correctly. I'm not terribly concerned at this point.
Best thing to do if you can is to swap the bulbs left to right as the bulbs will only plug in one way. Let me know what you find, as if you need a new bulb I will send it out ASAP.
Hi Steve I just bought the hid kit from you guys couple a weeks ago I had that install yesterday but nothing seems to work properly my friend ! First of all when I called you guys on of you said that by buying a canbus fix my new kit will work as drl!! But it seems like not and one of your guys in the phone yesterday told me the same thing cause they use a separate bulb for that ! Second thing the ballast is buzzing and makes a lot of noise as soon you turn on the light switch!!! When you turn on the light sometimes the right Side will not turn or if it will after played around the switch the right will turn on but the left is off this thing is driving me knots man . Hope you guys from xenon depot can get to me as soon as possible cause my guy that installed this he said nothing was quite right what was happening to the kit .He did follow all the instructions with polarity ecc ecc.
If you need my order number it's 47755.
Finally got the kit installed on Saturday, XD 5k + canbus.
Everything went fine with out removing bumper(few scraped knuckles). Disabled DRLs in menu prior to install. Polarity was wrong on driver side but got it sorted in 5 sec since knew what to look for (the light didn't turn on at all originally). The relays have audible buzz with hood open and a bit less but still audible when hood is closed on both sides. Everything else ballast and canbus are dead quite and COLD, no temp change at all. Very solid cut off line at perfect level just at the height of trunk of most cars in front of me with appropriate distance. Have a wire shadow going from center to drive side but not noticeable enough to futs around with it.
Now for the light output compared to halogens as you can imagine its night(halogens) and day(HIDs)... 5k in terms of color looks very white to me with just a hint of blue, i'd say they are same color as what i had on FX35 only a bit brighter.
Had a 2hr drive last night and i could not be happier everything works as advertised, great reach across entire field of view.
I do kind of miss DRLs, so i might do something with fogs to act like ones. Probably get Hoen yellow endurance h11 bulbs and wire to always on when car is running.
Mega8489 - What type of vehicle do you have the kit installed in? Is it a WK2 cherokee? It sounds like you don't have the kit hooked up properly if the relays are buzzing. Please give us a call toll free @ 1-877-522-2701.
antsjeep - Thanks for the feedback. That's also an H7 bulb, whereas the Cherokee uses an H11 bulb (completely different).
Yes it's a 2014 wk2!!!! I don't know man I brought the car to the shop to do this cause I'm not really into lights installment but they said the relay is buzzing and the lights weren't never turning on properly like when you turn on the car one light goes on and the other one is completely off!!! I alteady did call you guys but some guy send me a link to the jeep garage where I don't think that's a dyi guide to me !!
i'll take a pic this evening to make sure but i think not... btw my canbus(what i asume was canbus) looked identical to relay ie both connectors coming out from same side on the box.. not like its shown on pics on site.
So i went back to my installer over the weekend to have it looked at.
Here is what we found:
If canbus is installed between OE harness and relay the lights wont turn on at all. We checked every harness and polarity on each. Unless we moved it between relay and ballast it just doesn't want to work. Additionally when engine off lights on there is no buzzing on any component. Engine on + lights on the relay buzzes.
Now to really mind bugling stuff. After we took apart passenger side and tried to move canbus between OE harness and relay we got same result = no light. After putting everything back the way it was originally the light is back but now a new issue came up. When i turn light off the passenger side turns off 5-7 seconds after the driver side does. I call it the hidden wink feature
The DRLs were turned off prior to install.
I get no warnings of any sort on dash.
Could it be that my car doesn't even need canbus since DRLs are turned off? We didn't try it but it just occurred to me.
Any help is appreciated.
My main concern is: am i bound to fry something, melt headlight housing or introduce battery drain.
Sounds like there is either an issue with the can bus component or that you simply need to reverse the polarity.
Would it be possible to give you a call to discuss? May be easier to do so over the phone as opposed to back and forth through messages. Send me a PM with your phone number, and I will give you a call to discuss.
How did you switch the polarity? Did you simply reverse the connector or did you physically take the pins out of the housing and reverse their locations?
Spend 2 hours to go through this post. Very helpful to me, thank all of you here. Waiting for my XenonDepot kit and hope to install it without trouble.
Spend half day to prepare mounting staffs and a leisure half day to install the Xtreme kit. They are beautiful! No polarity reverse needed, no relay buzz or flickering, just worked as expected! Since I have troube to handling the plastic rivet by myself, I did not remove the front bumper, neither the bottom half of the air filter box (becasue I could not take it away).
Just one issue to be improved: noticeable ground shadow in front of driver. I realized that was because of the returning line of HID. But did not know how to tune up. Any advices? Thanks very much.
I'm planning on installing Hid in my 14 WK2 projectors. I found these Philips ballasts with Philips 6000k bulbs. Anyone have any experience with them? Looking for some input. They look pretty similar to HID Xtreme ballasts sold by xenondepot.