just installed 10k hids
#4
are the low beams really a H11 bulb? I want to order a pair of HID's before I get my new xB so they are ready to go in when I get it. I just want someone to varify this with me before I go and buy some. Thanks for all your input.
#9
Be sure to post up pics please!
I know I should get the 4300K for max lumens (3200 right?). But I keep seeing that 5000K is around 3000 lumens which is not a big loss and they look like a "cooler" shade of white whereas the 4300K can have a "warm" white look to them. OEM is 4100K or 4300K so that also weighs in, I don't want the blue ricey look, sorry, I actually want usable light and visibility. Decisions, decisions...
I know I should get the 4300K for max lumens (3200 right?). But I keep seeing that 5000K is around 3000 lumens which is not a big loss and they look like a "cooler" shade of white whereas the 4300K can have a "warm" white look to them. OEM is 4100K or 4300K so that also weighs in, I don't want the blue ricey look, sorry, I actually want usable light and visibility. Decisions, decisions...
#10
Originally Posted by uberspeed
I don't want the blue ricey look, sorry, I actually want usable light and visibility. Decisions, decisions...
#12
Originally Posted by uberspeed
I don't want the blue ricey look, sorry, I actually want usable light and visibility. Decisions, decisions...
Or did you mean you just don't care for the bluish ones personally?
#13
All OEM have 4100K - 4300K and use Philips or Osram-Sylvania. The highest K rating from those two companies (that have the OEM HID market owned) is marketed as a 6000K kit, the Philips Ultinon which in fact is 5800K. BMW's, Audi's , etc seem to have a blue hue to them due to the projectors and the angle at which you're viewing the light (refraction) coming off that projector housing. The light they have inside is 4100K - 4300K which is the closes that we can manufacture to sunlight. Proven time and time again to be the most "visible" spectrum the human eye can see.
What I'm looking for though, is I might trade off some visibility and real light output for perhaps what I would see as a "colder" hue of white. That said all OEM HID's I've seen look real good on the road and not at all "warm", including the ones in our current Mazda 3 GT hatchback so I'm leaning towards staying with the science behind it and going 4300K but I'd still like to see some pics. :-P
What I'm looking for though, is I might trade off some visibility and real light output for perhaps what I would see as a "colder" hue of white. That said all OEM HID's I've seen look real good on the road and not at all "warm", including the ones in our current Mazda 3 GT hatchback so I'm leaning towards staying with the science behind it and going 4300K but I'd still like to see some pics. :-P
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