HID lights

[FunkMasterChipZ]

what would it take to install these, how easy is it and do theyy really help?

 

[slow car]

http://takakaira.co.jp carries some reasonably priced retrofit kits.

 

['96_Talon_TSi]

HID Tech they do retrofitting and all that good stuff. They usually use the stock Audi lamps. Hella ballast system.

 

[Defiant]

Despite their brightness, you're still dealing with the factory reflectors which are designed to use the 9005/6. Your best payoff for performance per dollar is probably in getting a set of Sylvania Silver Star bulbs. HIDs are gruesomely expensive, plus it'd be a real nuisance to have a cop tell you they have to come out the first time they're seen.

 

[slow guy]

Despite their brightness, you're still dealing with the factory reflectors which are designed to use the 9005/6. Your best payoff for performance per dollar is probably in getting a set of Sylvania Silver Star bulbs. HIDs are gruesomely expensive, plus it'd be a real nuisance to have a cop tell you they have to come out the first time they're seen.

do the silver stars produce high output and cause the wires to burn up like numerous other brands have been heard to do?

 

[jimwross]

nope

 

[FunkMasterChipZ]

aight that sounds good so get the sylvanias? how much are those?

 

[HokieDSM]

Advance Auto Parts has Silverstars for $19.99 a bulb.

 

[blitz43]

Despite their brightness, you're still dealing with the factory reflectors which are designed to use the 9005/6. Your best payoff for performance per dollar is probably in getting a set of Sylvania Silver Star bulbs. HIDs are gruesomely expensive, plus it'd be a real nuisance to have a cop tell you they have to come out the first time they're seen.

can't you just put it together with projectors???

 

[Leitnin]

not truely a hijack its still related. the silverstars. people have been known to use the 9005's modified (plastic tabs) to go in the lowbeams. does this cause any problems with wiring or anything or is it really the same buld with no covered tip? (does it take more power and is it enough to kill wires)

 

[Rice Over Wheat]

I wish people would stop putting these things on their cars. It's so annoying getting blinded by them.

 

[BUCK]

I've had HID's on the last 2 Lincoln's - they are unbelievable - properly focused they don't seem to bother anyone.

 

[Leitnin]

preoperly aimed hids and any light really should have a sharp cutoff line about the side view mirror, therefore not projecting directly into the drivers eyes.

 

[blitz43]

well thats what i meant i seen alot ricers and luxery cars now coming with it standard and others as an option installed they get a real good view at night and my crappy light beams aren't really good at night and it just tell other drivers on the road that im driving by...

i want quality light bulbs that project with bright lighting and i think hids does the trick

 

[HokieDSM]

The problem is that every one of the cars that comes with them has reflector housings specifically designed to properly focus the HID beam. When you move a kit over into another car, with a different headlight housing, the beam pattern gets isn't focused properly and you not only get a crappy beam pattern that scatters light everywhere, but you blind everyone else on the road.

There was an article recently in a mag (Time I think?) about how in NJ the '02+ Maximas are now the most broken into car because people are ripping off the HIDs that come standard in those cars - and the police are now looking around for cars that have HIDs that fall into the above category of being not focused properly, or not standard on the car - looking for thiefs.

(Not to mention that putting HIDs is pretty damn illegal)

 

[Defiant]

not truely a hijack its still related. the silverstars. people have been known to use the 9005's modified (plastic tabs) to go in the lowbeams. does this cause any problems with wiring or anything or is it really the same buld with no covered tip? (does it take more power and is it enough to kill wires)

I've done this on mine with no ill effect, no hi-beaming from other drivers, and no scurrying of them out of the lane in front of me. I'd say it gives about a five-percent boost to the low beams, if that. It's a higher-wattage bulb (I'm running 65W low beams and 100W high beams) but the lighting still is far from spectacular. This is in the stock 95 housings.

 

[blitz43]

The problem is that every one of the cars that comes with them has reflector housings specifically designed to properly focus the HID beam. When you move a kit over into another car, with a different headlight housing, the beam pattern gets isn't focused properly and you not only get a crappy beam pattern that scatters light everywhere, but you blind everyone else on the road.

There was an article recently in a mag (Time I think?) about how in NJ the '02+ Maximas are now the most broken into car because people are ripping off the HIDs that come standard in those cars - and the police are now looking around for cars that have HIDs that fall into the above category of being not focused properly, or not standard on the car - looking for thiefs.

(Not to mention that putting HIDs is pretty damn illegal)

well in chicago its illegal to sell HIDs but you could still put them in



also about the housing, they all got projectors on them with HIDs

what i mean by that is that all cars that come standard with HID has projectors
and they make it for civics , crx, rsx, integras , 90-04!!! including dsms heres a pic of the 95-96 and the 97-99

the top is for 95-96 and the bottom 97-99