I recently just bought 2003 Audi A4 and its beautiful ..I drove it home and everything was fine .. When i took my friend for a spin it some smoking came out of the driver side headlight its was like a wiring being burnt smell .This car has the HID headlights.. It only works when the headlights are on randomly .. I dont know if anyone could help me out give me your opinoins im going to pull the headlight off tommerow to see any possible causes

 

color of smoke?

 

whitish something is burning some wire

 

anyone have idea's what It could be ?

 

Does the car have stock HID's, or are they aftermarket?

 

Most likely they're aftermarket and one of the little balasts came off, check on your headlight for obvious wire problems to see if you find anything visually wrong with it.

 

u know how to take our your headlight right. If not heres how to http://www.a4mods.com/index.php?page...earcorner.html. If u have ahole in the cover for ur lights then u are aftermarket. If it looks the way it does in the diy pic then u are stock.

 

well Im new to this car and I know it has alot things on it ... its stock HID's .. I took the headlight off today didnt find any burnt wiring and it hasnt did it since .. I think i know what the problem is tho ..I flickered the high beam on and off by accident and i think thats wat caused it to smoke randomly like that idk .. I just bought this car ill post pictures on it later .. I had a mustang gt and i wanted something new that nobody around nj has ..

 

so when u flick ur highbeams the smoke comes out. Could it be the bulb has dirt of grease on it and is burning up. when the car is smoking can u open the hood and pinpoint or even snap a pic to get a better idea of what it could possibly be>?

 

yeah i know its so weird it only happend last night it hasnt happend again so i couldnt get a picture of it .. I also have a question im thinking of putting a downpipe on the car to have a little better tone im used to having a loud mustang do you think 3in is to big i dont wanna lose power i think 2.5 will be good and what type of brands are decent for these cars ..