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Originally Posted by striker_1818
yeah man that's why us hard heads know Honda designed their wiring for halogens otherwise HID's wouldve been an option =]
crimpling or soldering doesn't make a difference but for safety snd longevity i'd use soldering(10bux on radioshack)...
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You are sort of correct, the lighting wiring harness for the Civic is the same world-wide for HID and Halogen, and in other countries such as Canada where the Civic is marketed under the Acura brand, HID is an option. In Japan HID is an option on the JDM Civic with the same harness for Halogen and HID. The reason that HID is not available on the Honda Marque here in the US is that upmarket stuff is reserved for the Acura brand.
Click here for the JDM Civic website. There is some really interesting stuff for JDM.
One interesting item if you drill down to the Civic options is that the HID factory lights use reflectors and not projectors.
If a wire is crimped with a industrial crimping tool, the connection is as good if not better than solder, but crimping using a hand tool is a 50-50 proposition of getting a good solid connection. A hand soldered connection has a much higher level of reliability than a hand crimped connection.