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Originally Posted by FALer
Actually, it's Halogen, InfraRed but everything else seems correct. I first read about them many years ago on the forum at the predecessor to Automotive Lighting FAQ , when looking to buy an HID plug-and-play kit. Reading convinced me that HIR were the only way to fly if you didn't want to retrofit HID specific projectors, but I do find it interesting that Australian Land Cruiser owners were the originators of the use of HIR retrofits. |
Ah yes, correction noted.
I'm not sure if it was owner
s, per se, but one who worked at an Australian John Deere dealership who immediately shared his finding with the "80 Series Land Cruiser Mailing List", which goes international.
Re-reading my posts on the ih8mud.com Land Cruiser board, it looks like I bought my first HIR bulbs in February of '04. Those, the early GE versions, burnt out a year later. I got my high beam bulbs in March of '04.
So now, I'm getting ready to install my March of '05 and March of '04 HIR bulbs into my new Si. How's that for longevity?
Here's a diagram of what the first GE bulbs looked like, by the way:
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Very goofy.