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  1. This is too funny. It never ceases to amase me the level of mis-guided direction that comes up when it comes to electricity in any automotive forum. Your stock headlight circut can not and will not handle high wattage lamps. It isn't designed for it and it will fail, usually catostrophicly. You may get lucky and just melt the plug. You might not be so lucky and lose a good chunk or you wire harness. When it starts melting, it will also melt the wires around it rending whatever circut it happens to be inoperable. You might ger REALLY un-lucky and burn your car down. If you are going to run high wattage headlights, you need a heavier duty plug that can take the heat. You also need to convert the headlight circut to run on relays with heavy gauge wire feeding them. The cars existing headlight circut will turn the relays on and off and thats it. And none of this is any good if it melts the actual housing of the headlight. I haven't tried it so I don't know. This buisness about not using solder because of heat and making this fix here and there, etc is total non-sense and should be completely ignored. I had to read it over several times to make sure I was actually reading it right. If you are going to connect two wires together, there are two ways to properly do so: 1. Solder & Heat Shink 2. But connector crimp splice with silicone (and heat shink to be really nice) WIRE NUTS THAT YOU TWIST ENDS TOGETHER WITH (like for home wiring) ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICAL WORK. DO NOT USE THEM.
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