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Old 05-01-2009, 12:13 AM   #101 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by VanSi07 View Post
Missileman... are you at all familiar with HIR bulbs?

They are still halogen filaments, and sit in the same place in our reflectors. The beam pattern will not change.
Now, it is going to be brighter, and that includes the ideas where the reflector is not doing a good job keeping light out of, eg. the area above the cutoff. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts however it's still well within legal tolerances, this is not like putting HIDs in our housings causing a bunch of glare and a sloppy pattern.
High beam bulbs, either 9011 or 9005, don't have the opaque coating on the end like 9006/9012 capsules.
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