8th Generation Honda Civic Forum - View Single Post - What you need to know about HID vs HID kit

***Tim*** · 12-24-2006, 03:05 AM

You don't understand, my friend. I have a projector retrofit in my headlights and I still think you're going about this the wrong way.

And I think the term that you're looking for is REFLECTOR. You are describing the classic reflector headlight- all of them. And contrary to what you may think, even modern reflectors are designed to minimize light above the cutoff. Unless they come that way from the factory (and surprise! there are factory-equipped cars with HID that have reflector technology) many reflector headlights just aren't designed to handle the intensity (high INTENSITY discharge) of D2S or D2R bulbs.

So whether your general argument is with reflector technology, HID technology, or with plug-and-play ebay kits remains unclear. You come off as belligerent and condescendingly didactic, and when you combine that with opinions rather than facts (citations, pictures, examples, figures, testimonial, etc), you aren't helping your argument.

12-24-2006, 03:05 AM	#22 (permalink)
*Tim* VIP Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 32 Posts: 5,368	You don't understand, my friend. I have a projector retrofit in my headlights and I still think you're going about this the wrong way. And I think the term that you're looking for is REFLECTOR. You are describing the classic reflector headlight- all of them. And contrary to what you may think, even modern reflectors are designed to minimize light above the cutoff. Unless they come that way from the factory (and surprise! there are factory-equipped cars with HID that have reflector technology) many reflector headlights just aren't designed to handle the intensity (high INTENSITY discharge) of D2S or D2R bulbs. So whether your general argument is with reflector technology, HID technology, or with plug-and-play ebay kits remains unclear. You come off as belligerent and condescendingly didactic, and when you combine that with opinions rather than facts (citations, pictures, examples, figures, testimonial, etc), you aren't helping your argument.