used ITR non-HID front end: $1899
used ITR HID front end: $2499

$600 dollar difference (my bad, not $900, I forgot about tax).

in any case, I was reading through Honda-Tech "Please Read Before You Post" dealie, and it looks like I'm not the first one to experience this problem (where a head light flickers, and then goes out).

From their forum, I've come up with a few trial and error things to test, add what you can, or rule out one before I do it if you can. I'd do it now, or would've done it last night, if not for my gosh darn job that makes me go to work!

1. Try different fuses. Someone had said their lights weren't coming on because of the fuse. They said they were blowing their fuses though, and my fuses aren't blown. I'm running 20's, but they switched to 15A and it got theirs to work.

2. Adjust the aim. I read that someone elses were flickering because of a cut off point in the JDM Housing for the HID's. It didn't say anything about them eventually shutting off, or changing color, but it was referred to as "cut off point." I'm assuming cut off point is where it would turn off.

3. Swap the bulb from one side to the other. At this point, it's kind of discouraging, given that HID bulbs are supposed to last over 2500 hours. Still, I would hope that it's a blown bulb, and not a bad unit.

4. Check all the connections again. Even though I went over it a dozen times already, I'll check again. Furthermore, I'll let my friend check it too, in case there's anything he might catch that I overlooked.

5. Be really sad and drive around with only one working head light, then probably get pulled over and given a ticket for having only one head light, and then given another ticket on top of that for having HID's. That's right! Even with all this time spent at work, I live pay check to pay check and won't be able to afford new/used HID lamps again for a while.