Adding HID to high beams?

[Doppelgänger]

Buncha ricers!!!

This is true.


STRteg - vehicle lighting is NOT about "looking sexy" for Christ's sake. People who think those 10k and higher colors from their headls are "cool" because it "looks cool" are fucking retarded and I want to take a hammer to their headlights everytime I see them. These shitsticks have no clue that blue/pink/purple/violet/magenta lighting absolutely KILLS vision, these colors DO NOT reflect back well and end up making things harder to see while hurting oncoming driver's vision.
I really wish there would be some laws to crack down on people using that retarded crap in their cars.

You can tell me until you are blue in the face that "putting HIDs in reflectors is just fine", but I will contest it based on being blinded/seeing it first hand. Yes, manufacturers can design a reflectory housing and HID combo that works better, but it still scatters light...like the Maximas and Acuras with this type headlight. I can always tell these cars in traffic because their lights are significantly brighter then HID/projector and halogen/reflector setups. Every aftermarket HID kit put into reflector housings that I have see ALWAYS have tons of light scatter.

Dynamicsound- like you really care what people do with these kits. You get your money and obviously you're going to butter up and say everything is fine..you're not going to risk sales and say that it's a bad idea....

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Let me also clarify that my car has OEM projectors, not some retrofit kit. I have 5k bulbs in there and the lighting is fine...perfect cutoff and no scatter. Also, my lows do stay on when the highs are activated and yes, I do know that they take a moment to 'warm up'...but I use my highs for visability...I have a horn to take care of stupid people at close range.

My highs are 9005, so I guess the only way to know if it will work is to suck up and spend the $60 or so bucks on some cheap kit.

[DynamicSound]

Dynamicsound- like you really care what people do with these kits. You get your money and obviously you're going to butter up and say everything is fine..you're not going to risk sales and say that it's a bad idea....

This is a extremely dumb comment. Implying that I will say whatever to make a sale. I will tell you like it is and you can choose to buy them or not, I could care less. I will tell you exactly what it is from my 5+ years experience of selling and installing HID kits. I can call BS from idiots that come onto forums at state things that have heard, read, or dealt with on the 1-2 HID Kits they owned. As said before, to have a clean cutoff, then projectors are the way to go. The small amount of spread that goes beyond the cutoff on halogen housings will not be "blinding" people if your headlights are properly aligned to the correct angle. This is what 99% of people do not do, so when you see a car shooting to high, you are chalking it up to some "ricer" that put a HID kit into a halogen housing. This does not make it true, sorry. On top of this, looking at the vehicle you drive, you are going to be much lower than most people because you 1) have a low to ground small car, and 2) it looks lowered. So you will be blinded by a good deal of cars because you choose to make your car lower than stock. The same when I have jacked up trucks riding behind me with normal halogen bulbs...they are shining right into my window. There are too many factors involved that can cause someone lights to blind people, so to chalke it all up to 1 reason and label them ricers shows me you have very little experience in them. Also, I would seriously look at your own vehicle before you call someone a ricer because you have a ricey vehicle. I am not saying it doesn't look good because it does, but tons of people would label you a ricer.

[speedminded]

This is a extremely dumb comment. Implying that I will say whatever to make a sale. I will tell you like it is and you can choose to buy them or not, I could care less. I will tell you exactly what it is from my 5+ years experience of selling and installing HID kits. I can call BS from idiots that come onto forums at state things that have heard, read, or dealt with on the 1-2 HID Kits they owned. As said before, to have a clean cutoff, then projectors are the way to go. The small amount of spread that goes beyond the cutoff on halogen housings will not be "blinding" people if your headlights are properly aligned to the correct angle. This is what 99% of people do not do, so when you see a car shooting to high, you are chalking it up to some "ricer" that put a HID kit into a halogen housing. This does not make it true, sorry. On top of this, looking at the vehicle you drive, you are going to be much lower than most people because you 1) have a low to ground small car, and 2) it looks lowered. So you will be blinded by a good deal of cars because you choose to make your car lower than stock. The same when I have jacked up trucks riding behind me with normal halogen bulbs...they are shining right into my window. There are too many factors involved that can cause someone lights to blind people, so to chalke it all up to 1 reason and label them ricers shows me you have very little experience in them. Also, I would seriously look at your own vehicle before you call someone a ricer because you have a ricey vehicle. I am not saying it doesn't look good because it does, but tons of people would label you a ricer.

lolol! Is it the Ohlin coil-overs, rollbar, wheels, or turbo that makes it "ricey"? To a hardcore domestic owner that is too ignorant to appreciate all well prepared cars of all makes and models, then yes it is. To someone that is familiar with decades of sports cars and motorsports, then no it's not even close.

While driving down the road you can see other peoples headlights right? It doesn't matter what direction they are aimed, you can still see the light correct?

If that same light with the exact same angle is increased by solely swapping out the bulb then it is emitting more light than before, at any angle in all directions. HID bulbs (say under 6k) do emit more light right?

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