What HID's to go with?
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What HID's to go with? Just curious what company you guys would recommend for a nice set of HID's? I had some years ago which I really liked on my Supra that were a white/purple color. The color was close to what the BMW HID's looked like.
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You really should get a good projector retrofit when going HID.
If that's not an option and you're gonna get HID regardless, spend a little money and get some morimoto ballasts/bulbs.
If that's too much, DDMtuning stuff works well, especially for the price.
If that's not an option and you're gonna get HID regardless, spend a little money and get some morimoto ballasts/bulbs.
If that's too much, DDMtuning stuff works well, especially for the price.
ive had xenons/xentec for 2 years get them on amazon for $30 (full kit)...but just had a bulb go out from a defect it worked 1/2 the time but just bought 2 replacements for $10! ...They came out with slim ballast too and waterproof but i power wash my bay like once a week heavily and never had a problem. Not to mention alot of companys come with 2 year or lifetime warranty on the ballast...$30 bucks life time warranty ....$5 a bulb...cant beat that haha
I have cheap ebay slim ballasts and they are working fine 6 years later. I had one bulb burnout but that's expected in that length of time.
I know lots of people that have had problems, you're just lucky you haven't. Besides you probably wouldn't know if someone's car you detailed developed problems after a period of time. But it's your car you do what you want....
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Im sorry but I didnt see any difference because there is none..Xentec/xenon come in 35w or 55w soooo 55 watt are for brights and they both come in different scales 6000k is white 8000k are blueish to 12000 purple..I had regular lights then went to silverstars from wal-world ($40) which were significantly brighter then to my 35w 6000k xenons (30$!) and they blow silverstars out of the water...Sure if u want ur brights for country driving go with 55watt or higher but any more then 35 watt of the so called "cheapos" ur getting pulled over...you can see my sig they are more then enough that I fear getting ticketed when next to police at night...ill make a vid of reg lights, silverstars, 35w and my buddies 55s and see how many views i get lol
the point of the video is how it shows the difference of PROPER ballasts vs cheapo ballast, most of the cheaper ballasts don't light the bulb properly, which makes them burn out easier and look crappy, I know all about the color scale and different temperatures and how 35vs55 actually changes the color slightly, that is NOT what the video was about.
here are some pics of when I had the 6000k in my driver side fog light with these good ballasts to give you an idea of what a proper 6000k should look like, not that greenish hue seen in your sig that is indicative of a cheapo ballast. Should be noted the greenish hue only shows up in pictures and not to the human eye, I see it with the LED bulbs I put in in place of the hid fogs back before I completely replaced the fogs with the 362 navigators.
Last edited by Daniel Richards; Oct 26, 2014 at 10:56 PM.
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Xeion depo is the good ones as well it's not cheap thoe I have them on my camaro and are amazing if I did not spell it right try searching kbb car stuff. Type that in and you should find it
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I got mine through ddm. easy to install nice and bright and look great(besides the dirty headlight lenses.) and they are a pretty good price as well with a lifetime warranty.
even the crappy ones will still be brighter then stock, as long as you don't go above 8000k, but please people stop being cheap and sticking 9006 HIDs into the stock headlights, YOU ARE BLINDING OTHER DRIVERS, you might as well just drive around with your high beams on, it's the same effect, do a proper projector retrofit.
5000k morimotos in mini d2s 2.0 projectors (Firebird BLS v2 kit) 2 pics of just low beams and 2 of 4 high beams, because the mini d2s 2.0 has a solenoid that drops the cutoff shield.
5000k morimotos in mini d2s 2.0 projectors (Firebird BLS v2 kit) 2 pics of just low beams and 2 of 4 high beams, because the mini d2s 2.0 has a solenoid that drops the cutoff shield.
Last edited by Daniel Richards; Oct 28, 2014 at 12:37 AM.