What color HID's
What color HID's I am about to do the fog lights in HID - Headlight is currently a 6k
I am using them for look purposes and do not care about lightning output.
Should I stick with 6k again or try an 8 or 10k bulb color?
New car is NBM btw
I am using them for look purposes and do not care about lightning output.
Should I stick with 6k again or try an 8 or 10k bulb color?
New car is NBM btw
Last edited by z28_YOU_HO; Oct 16, 2015 at 01:21 PM.
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You're going to burn up the housing, but if you absolutely must do it, anything greater than 6k, IMO, looks rice. I like the look of yellow fogs personally, so 3k. But if I were you, I'd just use some glass paint on the lens and paint it yellow, and stick with halogens. I put 50w in mine instead of the stock 37 watts.
Quoting this thread - https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...hs-rumors.html
Says that a 35W HID should be fine for the fog bulbs
Says that a 35W HID should be fine for the fog bulbs
I would also switch to 5000k bulbs on the headlights, looks much nicer and not ricer, provided you have good ballasts.
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Anyway, I may be the only one, I have 8k on my TA and they look fine too me. Slight blue hue, not ricer to me but then again it's my car and I'll do what I think looks best.
I think 8k would look great on an NBM car.
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Verdad Gallardo I've run 6000k in the past myself, after seeing 5000k in person I will NEVER go back, 5000k just looks right and compared to 5000k, 6000k looks blue (even before going 5000k I could see a hint of blue in 6000k), I don't get why people like the color of 8000k, it's totally blue and 10k is full on purple, but I see ricers (toyota, GM and ford pickups too) running 8 and 10k and I just laugh at the light not going more then a car length in front of them, hell stock halogens are brighter then most of those guys are running (to be far most are cheap ebay kits), to me those colors are for people that want to get attention for their headlights, where 5000k is for someone that wants to have LIGHT when driving.
I installed 8k in a few of my vehicles and it was kinda blue. I since installed 5k in my DD and I will never go with another color. It looks luxury like a BMW or infinity. Perfect bright white. I was also told not to do the fog lights but I think it looks great.
I have 8k hids in my headlights going strong for about 7 years now
I did try 55w hid kits, however they triggered the down function on my wipers. The only car I've had success with 55w HIDs are in my old 96 eclipse
I do not reccomend an Hid setup for fog lights though they were a pain in the ***. I tried running them off of the factory wiring, they would blow a tail light fuse, I ran them independently and they would flicker. The stock fog light housings are crap and mine literally fell apart from the heat the bulb generated
The best replacement is actually a round set of led running lights I picked up at autozone. They fit into my stock fog light brackets and are 100x brighter than my HIDs were in those crappy camaro housings. They are a round set with 4 led lights in them, $20 and they are extremely visible and match my hids perfectly.
I believe I created the thread you linked because I received a ton of flack about the hids in the factory reflector headlights. I still believe the hid kits are by far the best performance headlight solution available for our vehicles, having said that though I do not run hid kits in any of my daily driven cars. On newer vehicles they cause too many issues
Damn just read my own link, that was a longfreaking write up. I remember reading the 256 page document on dot vehicle approved lighting lol I just tried to edit that first post and it is literally at the 1000 character limit when I entered it
I did try 55w hid kits, however they triggered the down function on my wipers. The only car I've had success with 55w HIDs are in my old 96 eclipse
I do not reccomend an Hid setup for fog lights though they were a pain in the ***. I tried running them off of the factory wiring, they would blow a tail light fuse, I ran them independently and they would flicker. The stock fog light housings are crap and mine literally fell apart from the heat the bulb generated
The best replacement is actually a round set of led running lights I picked up at autozone. They fit into my stock fog light brackets and are 100x brighter than my HIDs were in those crappy camaro housings. They are a round set with 4 led lights in them, $20 and they are extremely visible and match my hids perfectly.
I believe I created the thread you linked because I received a ton of flack about the hids in the factory reflector headlights. I still believe the hid kits are by far the best performance headlight solution available for our vehicles, having said that though I do not run hid kits in any of my daily driven cars. On newer vehicles they cause too many issues
Damn just read my own link, that was a longfreaking write up. I remember reading the 256 page document on dot vehicle approved lighting lol I just tried to edit that first post and it is literally at the 1000 character limit when I entered it
Last edited by chrysler kid; Oct 19, 2015 at 05:41 PM.
Yeahhh, since camaro fog light upgrades are going to make a substantial difference in lighting output..
I don't think anyone does HID (or LED for that matter) fog lights because they genuinely need them for driving in the fog.. Let's get serious.
I don't think anyone does HID (or LED for that matter) fog lights because they genuinely need them for driving in the fog.. Let's get serious.