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    Install location for power inverter?

    Location Cobra CP 1575 I also brought an inverter but a pretty big one, it was on sale on Amazon for $100.00 I couldn't resist, but not I don't know where to put this bad boy. There isn't enough room under the passenger seat, please help. I have a 2008 V8 and the inverter is a Cobra CP 1575...
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    Inverter power connection

    Cobra CP 1575 I also just have brought an inverter, but mine is much bigger and I don't seem to have a place to put it. The inverter is the Cobra CP 1575 I have a 2008 V8 Sports Edition, please help. Thanks
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    Question about thump when at a stop and let off the brakes.

    Yup I have the same problem also, 4 WD , sports Edition
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    Car just shuts off while in Drive

    So after dying again that day. I was able to start the car again after discounting the battery to take out the ballast for the HID. As of right now nothing. I think it honestly at this point be a faulty ballast from the MTEC HID I brought. Maybe I was just one of those 1 in a 1000. (I mean MTEC...
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    Car just shuts off while in Drive

    So I took out the HID as the dealer suggested, and reinstalled the factory light bulbs. Driving around yesterday was fine till dawn came and I had to turn on my headlights. The car went crazy and died about 8 times in 20 mins. I was lucky enough to drive home on the highway without it dying...
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    Car just shuts off while in Drive

    hmr graphics I think you are right, I spoke to the tech personally and he said it's not the HID but because they are aftermarket that is what he is "suppose to say". ( Putting the blame on aftermarket produces) What is really interesting after is they told me that the factory battery has been...
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    Car just shuts off while in Drive

    Nope the car just shuts off but the lights on the dash stay on. The tech says that the lights are "Electronic controlled" so that is why HID are causing a short to the system. I am about to go pick up the car but I still think its BS, HID causing the car to complete shut off while in Drive...
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    Car just shuts off while in Drive

    Everything was connect because I have been driving the car for a week after the install without problems and then all of a sudden one day it stopped the car. Its been raining a lot in NYC but the day it was dry and the HID were off the car died. The tech said there was water in the connectors...
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    Car just shuts off while in Drive

    I have a 2008 Sports 4 runner, after install MTEC HID over a week ago, my car just dies/ engine shuts off while I am driving. After taking it to Star Toyota in flushing , NY. The tech says its the HID I have installed. Has anyone ever had similar experience or heard of anything like that... I am...

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