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Originally Posted by paul34 What car do you have? The question is when getting HIDs are, "are there any quality projectors out there for my vehicle?"
If not, you'll have to look into doing a retrofit, which will take time and dedication - however, you can get better results than many "pre-built" type solutions. Most eBay solutions are bunk and low-quality.
Regardless, I forgot the exact forum, but I believe its the forums at HID Retrofit Parts Projectors Ballasts D2S Bulbs for retrofit information.
Obviously, I say all this because you don't want to throw HIDs in halogen housings like ricers do (this isn't even limited to the import crowd... I see plenty of HIDs in halogen housings on pickups and other domestics as well... I call it "American rice").
It's a danger to everyone else on the road, and you'll probably get worse performance than with just plain halogens as far as lighting up the road. |
I agree with the above statement for the most part. A good quality HID kit will cost several hundred dollars. I'll post a link below of a side by side (stock halogen vs HID kit) below. The HID kit I installed on my girlfriends Escalade EXT, next to my stock halogen set up on my Escalade. I had already purchased the same kit for mine, but wanted to show the difference between the two.
Considering these were installed in Domestic trucks...sign me up for domestic rice. As for worse performance...I'll let the pics speak for themselves. Picked up both kits from
.: Xenon Factory ... Xenon HID Conversion Kit Specialist They have a 3 year warranty, and great customer service. I feel this is a good comparison because they both are same make, same year and both have identical
headlight housings. Also forgot to mention that these are the 5000K bulbs.
Regards
Walter
side by side against the garage
http://autopia.org/forum/attachment....1&d=1178199642
side by side
http://autopia.org/forum/attachment....1&d=1178199027
stock downhill
http://autopia.org/forum/attachment....1&d=1178199027
HID kit downhill
http://autopia.org/forum/attachment....1&d=1178199027
side by side downhill
http://autopia.org/forum/attachment....1&d=1178199027