Mod #1 Done. HIDs installed.

Jngrbrdman

Jngrbrdman

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Let me know if this doesn't work. It should be a clip of them lighting up. I got a sweet deal on a set of 4600K HIDs. $285 shipped. I'm tellin ya, I've never received a package so fast. I put the order in on Tuesday morning and they arrived from Hong Kong FedEx express on Thursday. How is that for service? I can get you guys in touch with the guy who sold them to me. He has access to all bulb types. Its a McCulloch brand kit so you know they are good. Here are some sweet pics that took tonight. I was documenting the cutoff pattern for someone who was interested.

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Mod number one is complete. Next on the list is a tint and then a car cover. Then I can start saving my nickles and dimes for a COBB Accessport ECU reflash device. :naughty So many toys... so little time. Wait, what am I saying? There is plenty of time. :naughty
 
Nice! :mohawk You got a smoking deal on those. I have always wanted to do that mod to my trucks, but I never keep them long enough!
 
so give us the info on the guy. I want a set of HID for my grand prix! the cheapest I found was close to 500 smackers!
 
IF you could PM me some info on who to contact that would be great. HIDs for my Jetta straight from Bosch in Germany run $1200!!! I have seen them go on eBay for between $650-750.
 
Can you show us the ballast and other crap inside the hood?
How you mount the ballast? It stealth? no one noticed?.
 
Not really a link, but he is a vendor on LegacyGT.com. His email is [email protected]. I told him that I have friends who may be interested. ;) The ballasts are very well hidden. The passenger side is totally stealth because there is that intake scoop right there. The driver side is a little less stealth, but you would still have to be looking for them to notice. They are easy to hide in a Legacy. Shoot the guy an email and see what he charges for your bulb size. He gave me the impression that it was the same price for all sizes. Very cool guy with quick responses. Like I said, I paypaled him on Tuesday morning and they arrived on Thursday morning and all I sent him was $285. Very awesome deal.
 
The Chee said:
Looks good :bigups Now you need to change the fog lights too ;)
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Nah. The foglights aren't on all the time. I don't mind if those aren't HIDs. Paying a couple hundred for headlights is fine, but the fogs can just stay the way they are. Maybe I'll get some nicer bulbs down there, but that's about it.
 
Those HID's look good, very OEM looking. I wonder if the seller has bulbs with the cutoff shield on the bulbs for the people who are putting them in with non-projector headlights?
What happened to your HID's Sean?
 
They broke :(


When I go home, I'm gonna grab them and post the problem on here and Autopia. I will send them to someone who is more electronically savvy than me to determine the problem, then hook them up with some products for payment.
 
Sean, just curious what brand are your ballasts and bulbs? Is it possible your bulb broke or died out? For all the claims HID systems make, i've been seeing quite a few headlights out with both aftermarket and oem kits.
 
Johnny: They both died at the same time. I found a new relay from a tech class at Harvard (only place available!) and went to work. Still no go :(.
 
It looks like you get what you pay for. Are you sure these are really HID bulbs and ballast? I've seen "HID like" in stores that are just a bulb with a relay that looks like a ballast.

When they did work did they take a moment to start up and brighten? Are they only for the low beams and not the high as they should be?

A good price on an HID low beam bulb alone is $150, and that's cheap. Ballasts are expensive. I'd be suspicious of a price that was so cheap, especially coming from HK or anywhere in the Orient.
 
im waiting for the day i gte some extra cash. i wanna install some hid's. atleast u made a smart move and kept the kelvin levels low in th 4000k-5000k. people think that the higher the kelvin the more they'll be able to see. WRONG! when ever u see someone with purple looking hid's thats about 12000k. and what that does is like driving with hid's and wearing sunglasses. hid's are made to mimick natural suunlight and the right temperature for it is 4500k. just right... and lower and u're getting close to halogen any higher and u're just dimming the effect of the hid...hids should be a tint of blue that changes color on and off to a yellow... if its tooo deep blue or purple, its just a waste.

just felt like posting this information since some pople here ar eplannign on getting them...
 
The first link I posted is the lights firing up. That should answer that question. I think this picture should answer your other question:

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McCulloch is a respected brand name for HIDs. I've seen them priced much higher than this. I don't think getting a good deal is the same as buying cheap products. I could have paid another 200 bucks for the kit, but it wouldn't have performed any better. Replacement parts are still going to be expensive on these. I think the guy said like $150 per bulb if they go out. That's HIDs for you though. I'm prepared to pay the bucks if I need to replace something, but I don't think I bought a 'cheap' kit from some rip off artist in the Orient. If I avoided everything that was made in China then I would probably be half dressed and walking barefoot everywhere. I certianly wouldn't have any microfiber towels.
 
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