I have a 04 G35 coupe brembo package with everything stock/OEM in and out of the headlights. Is it normal that they are very hot to the touch after 30min. of driving? It does not have the projectors however it does have OEM HIDs. Could that be one of the reasons why our headlights turn yellowish or foggy?

 

They turn yellow/foggy from UV damage, but the heat is the by product of light. At 35W it gets pretty hot inside the headlight - as designed.

 

Right...I believe the design of the headlights were flawed since high/low beam, fogs, signals, parking lights are all in one housing. I had all the lights on the other day and drove for only 30min. touched the headlights by accident and it nearly burned my hands. I am thinking if anyone else has experience this and is it normal?


Anyone tried switching the fogs nor other lights to LED bulbs? From my understandings, the HID and LED produces less heat.

 

They should be around 115-120 F on the lens (in the dark, not with mid-day summer sun) if you shoot it with an IR heat scanner, pretty normal for every vehicle on the road not using newer style lighting. Nothing wrong with a combination lamp cluster either, if there was a design flaw it would only be how inaccessible some of the lamps can be.

 

LEDs are fine for turn signals and clearance lights, but not in the place of HALOGEN bulbs. Led/hid where halogen should be is a mistake.

 

You'd be surprised at how well some of the new kits work.

 

I really wish it was true, but they really don't when you compare output shots, any light above the horizon line is a killer.

 

Since we are talking about LEDs. Has anyone tried out the LED bulbs that does not require resistors? I believe it will help with temperature and the brightness is higher, in addition each blink is sharper. If any one has tried them out please do share. I am very interested in switching them out. Please see the Amazon links that I found below.

 

I'm pretty certain you will still need resistors for your turn signal due to the decreased power consumption making your vehicle think the lamp is burned out.

 

From my understandings the newly innovated LED bulbs has resistors built in which is why we don't need the extra wiring with the resistors. Not sure if anyone has tried the ones that are built in yet, if anyone out here has tried them please chime in.
Thanks.

 

Maybe new ones, those ones you linked though still require them according to the description and comments.

 

You are just paying a lot extra when simple clip in resistors work just fine.