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Old Oct 23, 2012 | 01:13 PM
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Does anyone know of the most reliable brand of the cheap ebay hids. I dont have a ton of spare money to buy a nice set. But all four of my cheap ebays hids have blown. I may just put halogen back in for now.
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Old Oct 23, 2012 | 01:27 PM
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Old Nov 8, 2012 | 05:31 PM
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Thanks for the pm. I will look into those! Gotta get something with the clocks going back....
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Old Nov 8, 2012 | 06:23 PM
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Personally I use JLM bulbs from Amazon in all my applications, I wouldn't use there ballast tho, same bulbs in same car with there ballast flicker, but switch to a good brand ballast and the color of the bulbs are better and NO flicker, I like there bulbs because its only like 16 bucks for a pair and my brother has been using them for like a year now and they work just fine, so if its just bulbs you need look them up, if you need ballast don't buy the cheap crap, make sure its a DIGITAL ballast and read reviews.
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Old Nov 9, 2012 | 12:07 PM
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I think the wording is "which ebay HIDs suck the least" not which are the best
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Old Nov 9, 2012 | 12:38 PM
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iv had good luck with the xentecs off ebay
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Old Nov 9, 2012 | 01:01 PM
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DDM Tuning, bitchezzz
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 06:07 PM
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i would say ddm tunning also, if you dont mind waiting a month to get them.......
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i have ddms for over two years and they still work great , my bro on the other hand didnt listen and has xentec because they were so cheap , well his firehawk has stock bulbs again and so does his gfs mazda. While his truck that i bought ddms for him for xmas still work . So go with the ddms , i know the wait sucks .
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Is DDM terrible about their bulbs too, or just the kits? I've purchased 2 or 3 kits from DDM but that was before they took forever... Just needing some extra bulbs now and don't want to wait weeks to get them.
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