eBay Blackout headlights?
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im not comparing reflectors on oem hids with halogen reflectors with aftermarket hids installed, you misunderstood what i said. The guy Truth was bashing the other one for getting the Ebay halogen headlights and installing hids on them saying that he probably has a ricer glare. And i said that how would it be any different than hid's installed on a G that came stock with halogen headlights which is what many people did including myself and i don't have a ricer glare
#49
I said that because HID kits are garbage. I guess knowing Larry Wu(Litto Devil) and going to his house watching his crazy HID experiments has my views pretty extreme but I have not seen a kit that did not give off excess glare. I can't imagine HID in a non HID housing would reflect very good output.
#50
I said that because HID kits are garbage. I guess knowing Larry Wu(Litto Devil) and going to his house watching his crazy HID experiments has my views pretty extreme but I have not seen a kit that did not give off excess glare. I can't imagine HID in a non HID housing would reflect very good output.
#52
Sorry I wont just sell one. I will take pics of them this week. Let you look at them and then we can talk price.
#53
Dark, yea i thought HID ran cooler, but someone told me that the area on the lens that the HID hits gets white and eventually bubbles and spider cracks.. didnt make much sense to me cuz of the whole runs cooler thing, but im still tryin to cover all my bases.. thanks for the feedback
FlyingLumpia, sounds good, let me know when you have the pics. thanks, talk to you soon
FlyingLumpia, sounds good, let me know when you have the pics. thanks, talk to you soon
#54
Dark is right. I can tell you from personal experiance HID is cooler than Halogen. Also, CAtoPA6mt, you do realize that "JDM" stands for "Japanese Domestic Market" and means you're talking about the stock part from the Japanese version of the car, not a brand name right? JDM gets trown on tones of parts that aren't really JDM.
Everyone who decideds to get these, please post back with a review. I would like to know I have a cheap backup plan incase I mess up my stock ones doing a projector mod.
Everyone who decideds to get these, please post back with a review. I would like to know I have a cheap backup plan incase I mess up my stock ones doing a projector mod.
Last edited by NFSP G35; 11-13-2009 at 12:15 AM.
#55
nfsp1, yea i knew what it stood for, but the ones i got had no brand name on the site and i didnt see one on the ebay site either.. so just used what they had written to describe them.. but no i didnt realize they lable non-JDM parts with JDM, still somewhat of a noob i guess
thanks for confirming the heat issue.. have you personally thrown an HID kit on halogen assemblies before?
thanks for confirming the heat issue.. have you personally thrown an HID kit on halogen assemblies before?
#58
HIDs always run cooler, why you might ask?
High Intensity discharge lamps fire once, to react the metal and gas salts forming a plama which then emits the lights using the arc.
Halogens on the other hand, constantly fire pumping electricity through the filament.
This is also why HID and gas based bulbs are cost efficient. Those sodium lights used in gas stations take about 10 minutes to heat up but save about 50% of the electricity a halogen would.
HIDs, going green without even knowin' it
High Intensity discharge lamps fire once, to react the metal and gas salts forming a plama which then emits the lights using the arc.
Halogens on the other hand, constantly fire pumping electricity through the filament.
This is also why HID and gas based bulbs are cost efficient. Those sodium lights used in gas stations take about 10 minutes to heat up but save about 50% of the electricity a halogen would.
HIDs, going green without even knowin' it
#59
A few weeks ago I had an '03 sedan with aftermarket HID kit behind me on the highway...and i couldn't see crap. Even with my dimming rearview mirror and tint, the glare was bad enough i had to move over and let him pass me.