We don't need personal experiece to judge HID kits. There are plenty of pages in the internet from people who have experience with their 10K/12K kits. That's why there are reviews, so you know about it without going thru the whole personal experience thing. If you search and READ them, you will see that as color temp goes up, amount of useable light decreases
Some more pages for you to read, from people who have "personal experiences":
http://www.mx6.com/forums/showthread...&highlight=HID
http://faqlight.carpassion.info/hl-hid-bulbs.htm
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=697613
http://www.xenondepot.com/htec.php
One section from xenondepot.com best describes your application
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Many people believe the misconception that colour temperature is a rating of the brightness of the bulb or HID kit. This belief is completely false. The reality of the matter is that the higher the colour temperature, the less useable light output you will obtain. A perfect example would be a black light. This light has a colour temperature of approx 12,000k and has almost no useable light or lumens output.
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See the light chart below and everyone can see why 10/12K is not brighter than stock:
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Yellow:
1500 k Candlelight
2700-2900 k Yellow painted fog halogen bulbs
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Yellowish white:
3200 k Sunrise/sunset
3200 k Premium H7 non painted halogen bulb <---Stock
3400 k 1 hour from dusk/dawn
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White:
4100 k Philips/Osram OEM HID D2S
5500 k Bright sunny daylight around noon
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Blueish white
5500-5600 k Electronic photo flash
6000 k Philips Ultinon HID D2S
6500-7500 k Overcast sky
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Blue:
9000-12000 k Blue sky <---Your 10/12K kits
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Purple:
28000 Northern sky
12000-30000 k Ultra Violet light (black light)
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