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Old 09-14-2005, 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by DuMa
to all of you who just got HIDs and no projector, thank you for the glare. it will surely help me the next time i plow into your front bumper
I've neever had anyone flash their lights at me ni a notice that I'm blinding them.
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Old 09-17-2005, 12:01 AM
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are 6000k and 8000k street legal? and which one would most recommend out of those two?
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Originally Posted by rwf
are 6000k and 8000k street legal? and which one would most recommend out of those two?
both are illegal. all kits are illegal. even retros are illegal. but if you must get a kit, get a 6000k if you want to see more at night, get 8000k if you don't care about forground lighting and just want to have blue/purple headlights. stock OEM hids are 4100k.
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Old 09-17-2005, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by rwf
are 6000k and 8000k street legal? and which one would most recommend out of those two?
both are illegal. all kits are illegal. even retros are illegal. but if you must get a kit, get a 6000k if you want to see more at night, get 8000k if you don't care about forground lighting and just want to have blue/purple headlights. stock OEM hids are 4100k.
i thought anything over 8 was illagal and anything under is legal.
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Old 09-21-2005, 02:36 AM
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Installed the hid's tonight ...needless to say...way too bright...is there anyway to aim the headlight or bulb down?...or maybe change the bulb to one thats less bright??...i have 350z bulbs which are rated at 4300k...if i get pulled over once i'll put them in my g/f's celica...at least she has projectors.
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Old 09-21-2005, 09:54 PM
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we have kits for $275 shipped.
lifetime warranty. Put in our first few into the Scion this weekend.

For this crowd, we'd be willing to do any K for $250 shipped

Here's detail on the kit:
http://forum.bimmerforums.com/forum/...d.php?t=353711
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mcculloch 6000k


passenger=8000k
driver=6000k



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McCulloch 6000K:



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Old 08-30-2006, 12:56 AM
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McCulloch 8000k



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Old 08-30-2006, 02:41 AM
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sweet looking lights. im sure they look a crap load better in person. personally, i like the 6k myself.
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Old 08-30-2006, 03:06 AM
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heres my Prolumen 6000k hid's





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Old 08-30-2006, 06:00 AM
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lookin good --^
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Old 08-31-2006, 12:20 PM
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IS the Philips brand a good brand to get for HIDs? I want to get 8000k and I found a pair on ebay that are $180...
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Old 08-31-2006, 08:57 PM
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supposedely phillips is just about the best u can get. i dont know how true that is but as i understand they are the leader. Phillips and Kaizen are the only ones to use sum sort of technology that i cant remember right now low. this wasnt a 100% helpful post but u get the idea. sumbodt will come in later and say whats really up with everybody. is ProLumen tight like that? Umnitza stands by them hard.

wish i could get 7000K tho....
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yea wat he said... make sure its the whole package and just not the bulbs...
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Old 09-01-2006, 01:02 AM
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wat do u guys do with ur foglights? i have the oem ones, i just leave them off now, but i wanna use them, was thinking of getting sylvania silverstars
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Old 09-01-2006, 04:03 AM
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from all of my research I have done, Philips is the only way to go. They are a reputable lighting company that produces most of the OEM HID products for manufactures. The only people I know of who are using and rebasing (so they fit halogen housings) philips ballasts and bulbs, is xenondepot.com. Everything else is pretty much junk, these no name kits with plastic ballasts, and 8000-12000k junk bulbs with little light output, the companys usually end up going out of buisness before your "warranty" is up anyways. Philips offers a 6000k Ultinon bulb, but IMO is too much color and not enough light. Stick to the 4300-5300k.

I have read good and bad things about prolumen, on various forums. To each is thier own, I researched for months before I pulled the trigger, and decided all philips is the only way to go.. I dont know if prolumen offers a wiring harness with thier kits (xenondepot does), but its the ONLY WAY TO GO, so you dont fry your factory wiring...
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REBASING! thats what i was talking about. that is the technology that Phillips uses that Kaizen which is a Korean company that worked with Phillips, also uses as well. Kaizen is not as well known to the US customer but is also top quality. i bleve they are still a notch below phillips but are still not far behind.

thanx pmpnxb cuz i really didnt feel like doing the research to remember that rebasing was the term. lol

so does that mean that Phillips HID kits shouldnt cause glare or blind oncoming if they are used without Projectors?
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Old 09-01-2006, 09:00 PM
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Nope they will still cause glare, I ran the 4300k kit in the factory housings... and in all honesty it wasnt that bad at all. I never got flashed w. high beams, and never got a complaint from anyone. I just felt the need to retrofit, to get the true pleasure of HID lighting. The problem I had with the factory housings was that it scattered light on the ground, so the beams always looked uneven to me. I'm a lighting freak, so I retrofitted, but the HID output is amazing...

If you do decided to go HID without the projectors I would suggest aiming your headlights down just a few notches... Basicially if you pull up beheind a car, and your beams are reflecting off thier bumper and glaring you, chances are your glarin' the rest of the road...

If your about 75ft behind a vehicle and you can see your headlights on the vehicle in front of you's head rests they need to be aimed down.
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both have HIDs
left not my car he has projectors too










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