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noticed my headlight bulb out on my 16 Premium gt.
Replaced bulb. Still out.
Replaced HID ballast, still out.

Anyone know of any other parts to check?

I plugged in a raxiom led headlight and everything worked fine, so i do not think its a wiring issue.
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You can try one of these very inexpensive mods:

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Did you try swapping bulb sides? Passenger bulb on driver's side, and vice versa?
 
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Yes i plugged in the pass side light to te drivers side, which worked, and now does not... so its def a wiring issue. Anyone know if each light has its own fuse?

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Car is more than likely being sold next week, swapped out the raxiom lights and ran into this issue

It has to be a wiring or fuse issue. The raxiom lights are LED and use less power... maybe thats why they worked. Who knows.
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Did you try reading the manual? :-)

The owners manual for a 2015 says 20A fuse (numbers 33L and 35R) for each light.
 
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I replaced both fuses for the heck of it. I decided to put the stock headlight assembly back together with the original bulb and ballast. I plugged it into the passenger side and it works fine (did this again). Plugged it in the drivers side and no headlights, just indicator lights.

I have an LED raxiom headlight. plugged that into the driverside and everything works. Im at a loss.
 

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Yes i plugged in the pass side light to te drivers side, which worked, and now does not... so its def a wiring issue. Anyone know if each light has its own fuse?

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They'll often fuse different sides, opposite corners etc., to make sure a fuse doesn't take down all your light. You may have a tripped breaker.

Oops, missed the part of another light working on the suspect side. That is weird. Breakers can reset themselves. Perhaps that's the case? Sounds remote.
 
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They'll often fuse different sides, opposite corners etc., to make sure a fuse doesn't take down all your light. You may have a tripped breaker.

Oops, missed the part of another light working on the suspect side. That is weird. Breakers can reset themselves. Perhaps that's the case? Sounds remote.
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If the original plug wasn't modified, that will rule out reverse polarity. If you have a volt meter, set on D/C, black lead on chassis ground (fender screw or frame bolt), then look for 12 volts in your connector with the red lead. If you don't find 12 volts, then it's a continuity chase back to the fuse block. If the 12 volts is there, there's a ground problem somewhere. A wiring schematic would help a lot. The fact that the LED fixture worked adds a strange twist.
 
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Stupid question
I ask this because i did not install the LED lights... American Muscle did for their YouTube channel.

Is there supposed to be relays here? See pics.
 

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I would be inclined to agree that the relays need to be there, but, you said the right side is working.

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So no need for relays... which makes no sense, but found the red power wire was brittle- put a little jumper in there to test and boom works! Ordered a new connector should have tomorrow.

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