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05-04-07, 10:23
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Join Date: May 2005 Location: Binghamton, NY Posts: 888 | Re: HID lights
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05-04-07, 09:14
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Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 7 | Re: HID lights
buy 6500k they good from philips or sylvania
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05-04-07, 10:00
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Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Gilbert, AZ Posts: 5,793 | Re: HID lights
One of the projects I have for my next A33 Maxima is HID high beams and foglights. I have already gotten a price for the kits from a Maxima.org sponsor (3000K H3 (Fogs) and 5000K 9005 (High Beams))
The low beam is a 4150K HID using the D2S bulb.
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03-19-08, 10:18
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Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Gilbert, AZ Posts: 5,793 | Re: HID lights
...fast forward to this year....
One of the first mods I put on the Edge is low and high beam HIDS. I have 2 6000k, 35w kits.
This is a pic of the low and high beams lit. 
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03-19-08, 11:52
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| | Practical Perfectionist
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Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 20,437 | Re: HID lights
PrinzII- Are you using the HIDs in the OE housings/reflectors? If so, how is the patterning? | |
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03-19-08, 12:29
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Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: White Plains, NY Posts: 1,608 | Re: HID lights
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03-19-08, 04:53
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Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: C.C. TX Posts: 310 | Re: HID lights
I have the true HID hi/low bi-xenon in my xB and it looks just like stock only much brighter. I bought the wire harness with the relays and fuse to take the load off the original headlight plugs. Only problem I had was water got into the relays due to their location. But a little electrical tape solved that.
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03-19-08, 08:36
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Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: SoCal Posts: 1,900 | Re: HID lights
jsatek, IIRC you bought an inexpensive HID kit so I'm curious to know which kit you got and do you think those are real Bosch ballasts or Chinese knock-offs? | |
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03-19-08, 10:04
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Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Gilbert, AZ Posts: 5,793 | Re: HID lights
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Originally Posted by Accumulator PrinzII- Are you using the HIDs in the OE housings/reflectors? If so, how is the patterning? | They are in the OE housings. The patterning isn't too bad. I just need to make a minor adjustment.
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03-20-08, 12:22
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Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Jose / Hollister, CA Posts: 1,628 | Re: HID lights
Retrofit is the only way to go as far as investing in some sort of aftermarket kit. I advise against plug-and-play kits without retrofitting your housings unless you can achieve a defined cutoff on your HIDs. Otherwise, you will just be blinding everyone in front of you.
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03-27-08, 05:41
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Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 59 | Re: HID lights
I've got a set of H7 4100k's in my MB C280 that do quite well in the factory halogen housing.The bulb has a metal shield that helps tremendously with cut off.
In some aspects they are actually less blinding than some OEM projectors i've seen.
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03-29-08, 11:10
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Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Fort Worth/Austin/College Station, Texas Posts: 11 | Re: HID lights
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Originally Posted by BlackElantraGT  jsatek, IIRC you bought an inexpensive HID kit so I'm curious to know which kit you got and do you think those are real Bosch ballasts or Chinese knock-offs? | I know this question wasn't directed to me but I got a cheap chinese knock-off kit... for 90 bucks shipped... and they've been working great for over a year now.. It actually looks very similar to that one pic in the red packing posted above.
My car already had projectors but with normal halogen bulbs so I wanted to replace them with something a bit brighter. They look great and OEM as far as I can tell. | |
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