Interested UPGRADING your HID's and Lights?

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Old Jun 5, 2003 | 03:31 AM
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Interested UPGRADING your HID's and Lights?

Hey ladies & gentlemen!

I have deals for HID upgrades. Whether you are interested to upgrade your D2R's brighter or if you want to change your OEM foglight to HID's, I can get you people a good deal.

I can also get a full set of light bulb upgrades all around your G35. Exterior and Interior.

First I need some heads up on about how many people are interested. It doesnt matter where you are located, I can have it sent to you easily.

If you are interested, drop me a message here in this post or in private message and tell me what you are interested in. Reason I need to do this first? Because if not enough people are interested, it won't be worth the time to get the stock in. Thanks.


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Old Sep 29, 2005 | 03:41 PM
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interested in all hids to match the existing headlights
 
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Old Sep 29, 2005 | 03:56 PM
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i might be interested depending on the price
 
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Old Sep 29, 2005 | 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by tomii350gt
Hey ladies & gentlemen!

I have deals for HID upgrades. Whether you are interested to upgrade your D2R's brighter or if you want to change your OEM foglight to HID's, I can get you people a good deal.

I can also get a full set of light bulb upgrades all around your G35. Exterior and Interior.

First I need some heads up on about how many people are interested. It doesnt matter where you are located, I can have it sent to you easily.

If you are interested, drop me a message here in this post or in private message and tell me what you are interested in. Reason I need to do this first? Because if not enough people are interested, it won't be worth the time to get the stock in. Thanks.


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Sorry, but any changes to your stock HID bulbs will most likely not net you any increased performance. Also, unless you are converting the halogen fog/high beam reflector to an HID specific reflector or projector you are not increasing performance. In fact you are going to blind other drivers with all that glare coming from your "upgraded" hid fogs. There is a reason why "HID Kits" are illegal in the US. Way to many uninformed people sticking in HID/Xenon bulbs in halogen housing causing blinding glare.
 
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Old Sep 29, 2005 | 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by tomii350gt
Hey ladies & gentlemen!

I have deals for HID upgrades. Whether you are interested to upgrade your D2R's brighter or if you want to change your OEM foglight to HID's, I can get you people a good deal.
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How would the Stock D2Rs be brighter from a ballast swap? All ballasts have a direct current of 35w for the bulb any higher would cause the capsule to become unstable.
 
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Old Sep 29, 2005 | 07:14 PM
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i'm interested in the oem fog light
 
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Old Sep 29, 2005 | 07:24 PM
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enough with the talk. walk us through prices homez.
 
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Old Sep 29, 2005 | 11:04 PM
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Sorry, but any changes to your stock HID bulbs will most likely not net you any increased performance. Also, unless you are converting the halogen fog/high beam reflector to an HID specific reflector or projector you are not increasing performance. In fact you are going to blind other drivers with all that glare coming from your "upgraded" hid fogs. There is a reason why "HID Kits" are illegal in the US. Way to many uninformed people sticking in HID/Xenon bulbs in halogen housing causing blinding glare.

You can use a halogen reflector with an HID conversion kit. A properly designed HID kit will have the same exact light shine as a halogen and will not have any glare. Our fogs/high beams use an H4 bulb. The H4 bulb has a cap above the filement, and a properly designed H4 HID bulb will have some kind of a cap above it to, to ensure the same light spread as light spread.

I have had an H3 HID kit on my previous car, and an H4 HID kit in my G35. Both shine just like normal, but as birght as HIDs. Theres no glare.
 
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Old Sep 30, 2005 | 02:22 AM
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Prices on Fogs/High HIDS! Also, which brands are we talking about?
 
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Old Sep 30, 2005 | 02:27 AM
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Prices on Fogs/High HIDS! Also, which brands are we talking about?
yes. give us the prices and the brands please...
 
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Old Sep 30, 2005 | 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Silverbolt
You can use a halogen reflector with an HID conversion kit. A properly designed HID kit will have the same exact light shine as a halogen and will not have any glare. Our fogs/high beams use an H4 bulb. The H4 bulb has a cap above the filement, and a properly designed H4 HID bulb will have some kind of a cap above it to, to ensure the same light spread as light spread.

I have had an H3 HID kit on my previous car, and an H4 HID kit in my G35. Both shine just like normal, but as birght as HIDs. Theres no glare.
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I am sorry but that is simply untrue. Halogen and HID bulbs distribute light completely differently. Halogen bulbs produce light using a filament which icreates a cylindrical light source. HID bulbs pass current through two electrodes which causes the light to bend up slightly (due to heat forcing it to rise). Please see the picture below.

On the left you have a standard halogen bulb and on the right we have an HID bulb:



As you can see there is a very big difference in the way the light gets dispersed. This means that the reflector or projector assemblies have to be designed specifically for each light source. If you just go ahead and stick an HID bulb in a halogen reflector you will be scattering light all over the place.

Here are some results of HID bulbs in halgen housings:





Here is a comparison of a HID kit installed on a Dodge Neon with 8000K bulbs vs the same headlight with 4300K bulbs and a TSX projector retrofit:



Your fog lights may look "OK" to you. However, you are definitely getting less than stock output and potentially distracting other drivers. These are just simple facts.
 
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Old Sep 30, 2005 | 10:14 AM
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He is right, even if you have a D2R shielded Xenon bulb in a halogen reflector the light will go everywhere.
 
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Old Sep 30, 2005 | 04:55 PM
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What if you have a Xenon bulb that's designed to replace the original bulb type? I was hoping to use one of these in the future.

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Old Sep 30, 2005 | 10:28 PM
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ok so let me get this striaght..if i purchase these bulbs,the 6000k xenonx will scatter light everywhere? and not have a cut off line anymore? i did want to upgrade my xenons to 6000k..
 
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Old Oct 1, 2005 | 01:13 AM
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Obviously the light from an HID bulb and a halogen bulb are produced differently, but if designed correctly, an HID bulb distributes the light in the same exact pattern. If you have a 55 watt halogen bulb vs a 90 watt halogen bulb, the 90 watt bulb will be alot brighter, but the light pattern is the same. The housing doesnt change, so the lighting doesnt change. If you use an H4 HID conversion kit, with a properly designed H4 HID bulb, it creates the same exact light patern as any halogen H4. Also, a 6000k HID bulb will emit more candlelight than any ordinary halogen bulb. I have had two HID kits (H3, and H4), the light patern shines EXACTLY the same if it were the stock halogen bulb.

I dont think you're fully understanding my point, so to simpifly it even more... A halgen reflector assembly was made specifically for that intended halogen bulb. However, if an aftermarket HID bulb was made specifically to have the same exact measurements and characteristics (other than light output), you will have the same exact light pattern, but only with HID lighting.

LCA575, I never said anything about using a D2R HID bulb in a halogen projector. Now that would cause alot of problems! The D2R's cap is completly different from an H4. However, an H4 HID bulb emits an identical light pattern as a normal H4 halgoen bulb.
 
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