Yet another HID install w/ review (lots of pics)

[Tastycakes]

Bought these http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HID-X...0106QQtcZphoto

Got em from him due to he has 100% feedback w/ 13000 feedbacks

Anyway install was flawless. The HID's were $140. Took roughly 1.5 hours to install w/ not knowing wtf to do.
Oh and its 10,000k
Bought sunday night, shipped monday, got wendsday morning

Edit: i'll take some night shots tonight

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Here's a HID bulb that didn't work too well in a stock reflector.
Did some reading and it seems HIDs bleed very little on ours.
Taken from http://www.intellexual.net/hid.html


and a good HID projector cutoff

[USDM-FG2]

overall how was the install?

[caveman74]

Your night will now be BLUE/PURPLE

[Tastycakes]

Pretty easy. You have to go through the fender to get to em, pop out a clip and pull the housing back, took 5 mins for that to reach the bulbs. I unbolted the ABS pump for passenger side and took out the little coolant tank (just pulls straight up) by the battery to get to the wires (drivers side). Then plugged it all in and worked fine.

[Tastycakes]

Originally Posted by caveman74

Your night will now be BLUE/PURPLE

I know i cant wait til dark. I'm probably gonna get OEM fogs then get pure yellow LED bulbs then LEDs in the turn signals. Put LED's on my yaris, the color yellow is so fresh and clear.

[Hondasi15]

They look really nice...They make a huge diffrence

[Tastycakes]

Bump for night time pics.

Also anyone get picked on by cops w/ HID's?

[caveman74]

they would be brighter if you got 4300k. Too blue for my taste, too much attraction to the police

[NIGHTHAWKSI]

Originally Posted by caveman74

they would be brighter if you got 4300k. Too blue for my taste, too much attraction to the police

i agree....it doesnt look like you can see that well, you might have more light in front of your car, buy when it is a blue/purple it is too dark to see with....almost like blac.

[Tastycakes]

Yea i'm probably gonna buy a 6000k bulb. This is WAY too blue. I feel like a black light on wheels, all the white on the road has a small blac effect kinda.

[NIGHTHAWKSI]

^you should try 4300k bulbs....

[Tastycakes]

4300k would look like roughly a 3.2 tl right? I wanna get em just a little blueish.

[NIGHTHAWKSI]

yea...4300k is oem specs...so 5k or 6k would be a little more blue

[Tastycakes]

Well just bough a set of 4300k, man i'm so broke lol.

[gus738]

they look great so this is 100k ? deep blue right? im thinking of getting the 80k iceburg blue or sometn .... it says its 3x more lighting and 100k is 2x... what should i look at if i want better visablity but at the same time i want blue only kinda effect? these are going on projectors

[Yodums]

Originally Posted by gus738

they look great so this is 100k ? deep blue right? im thinking of getting the 80k iceburg blue or sometn .... it says its 3x more lighting and 100k is 2x... what should i look at if i want better visablity but at the same time i want blue only kinda effect? these are going on projectors

You're magnifying the temperatures by 10x. It should be 4,300, 6,000, etc.

Personally, I wouldn't go anymore than 6,000K. You're getting the most usable light output at around 4,300K. It just seems people don't find the look too appealing and need some "blue" in there - that's why 6,000K is so common as it has that hint of blue in there. I personally think anything higher is too blue and impractical.

[gus738]

Originally Posted by Yodums

You're magnifying the temperatures by 10x. It should be 4,300, 6,000, etc.

Personally, I wouldn't go anymore than 6,000K. You're getting the most usable light output at around 4,300K. It just seems people don't find the look too appealing and need some "blue" in there - that's why 6,000K is so common as it has that hint of blue in there. I personally think anything higher is too blue and impractical.

im confused 4,300 ? 6k? i saw from that link the guy provided and in a nutshell hid kits plug n play seem to be worser then oem? plz if someone can clearify to me oem vs hid kits in a short matter i would apriciate it , i love how a white one looked like is that 6k? cuz 8k lumonous? lms is 2500 and thats 3x better then oem based on info..... plz help out

[Tastycakes]

The 10,000k i had were way too blue and it was about as good of visibility as stock if not worse.

When i went to 4,300 (OEM color temp for HIDs in cars) its at least 2x as bright just by eyeballing it.

4300 is pure white w/ a very very tiny hit of blue (brightest)
6000 are a bit blue
8000 are blue
10000 are really blue w/ some purple
12000 are blue/purple (least brightest)

Each time you go to the next level (more color 4300-12000 in that direction) you lose brightness. I love my 4300s. When i hit my brights you can see a world of a difference, the brights are stock and yellow as hell compared to the normal lights w/ HID's

Edit: Yea that link, the one w/ all the HID info. Our housing is built for normal bulbs not HID bulbs. Some head light housings takes HIDs bad and reflects the light everywhere. You can see from my cutoff pic on the fence that its pretty even and only blinding the oncomming traffic a bit so they seem to work well in our reflector housing. I'll take some cutoff pics w/ the 4300s on a flat wall soon enough.

Hope that helps

[gus738]

Originally Posted by Tastycakes

The 10,000k i had were way too blue and it was about as good of visibility as stock if not worse.

When i went to 4,300 (OEM color temp for HIDs in cars) its at least 2x as bright just by eyeballing it.

4300 is pure white w/ a very very tiny hit of blue (brightest)
6000 are a bit blue
8000 are blue
10000 are really blue w/ some purple
12000 are blue/purple (least brightest)

Each time you go to the next level (more color 4300-12000 in that direction) you lose brightness. I love my 4300s. When i hit my brights you can see a world of a difference, the brights are stock and yellow as hell compared to the normal lights w/ HID's

Edit: Yea that link, the one w/ all the HID info. Our housing is built for normal bulbs not HID bulbs. Some head light housings takes HIDs bad and reflects the light everywhere. You can see from my cutoff pic on the fence that its pretty even and only blinding the oncomming traffic a bit so they seem to work well in our reflector housing. I'll take some cutoff pics w/ the 4300s on a flat wall soon enough.

Hope that helps

thx for the info i think im getting it , higher k less visability right?

and what did you mean by "our housings"? oem ones or what? cuz i have the projectors the black aftermarket ones and i wanna put those with either 6k or 8k.....

and last Q if i do 8k is it a inprovement over oem or not?

[asndragonboii]

Originally Posted by gus738

thx for the info i think im getting it , higher k less visability right?

and what did you mean by "our housings"? oem ones or what? cuz i have the projectors the black aftermarket ones and i wanna put those with either 6k or 8k.....

and last Q if i do 8k is it a inprovement over oem or not?

The "K" does not mean THOUSAND. It's short for Kelvin.... which is the scale that is used to tell you the color temperature.

So 6K is 6 Kelvin and 6000k is 6000 Kelvin.