HondaDanny06

just have a dumb question, if i put an hid kit in the fog lights, would they be to strong and melt the the lens in the fog light? or somehow ruined the fog light?

K5^

People have put HID pnp kits onto their fogs. I haven't hear of a case where it ruined the fog housing.

http://www.8thcivic.com/forums....html

This guy did a plug and play on his low beams and measured the thermal temperature of both the stock halogen vs. the pnp xenon. The xenon was actually a few degrees cooler during operation. However, there are different variables to consider: what temp, manufacturer of the kit (not just bulbs but ballasts, ignitors, harnesses). Just be sure to get a kit from a reputable manufacturer.

Anyone correct me if I'm wrong.

HondaDanny06

i have the same exact kit in my low beams to. i have them in 8k im thinking bout doing the same to my foglights, i think they'll be ok, i just wanna find out if anyone has had any problems with them, no one has posted yet to i guess not.

2008fijibluesi

I have HID low beams and fogs. You have nothing to worry about.

Power of Dreams

8000K has absolutely nothing to do with the temperature that the actual HID light bulb produces when illuminated. 8000 Kelvin is equivalent to 13,940 degrees Fahrenheit. An average HID or incandescent light bulb will produce a temperature of about 100-200 degrees Fahrenheit (estimated since I don't know the exact figure) when illuminated.

The "K" number in reference to an HID bulb is the "color temperature" of the bulb based on an "ancient Kelvin scale" before we knew that light is the electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength.

Yellow:
1500 k Candlelight
2700-2900 k Yellow painted fog halogen bulbs
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Yellowish white:
3200 k Sunrise/sunset
3200 k Premium H7 non painted halogen bulb
3400 k 1 hour from dusk/dawn
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White:
4100 k Philips/Osram OEM HID D2S
5500 k Bright sunny daylight around noon
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Blueish white
5500-5600 k Electronic photo flash
6000 k Philips Ultinon HID D2S
6500-7500 k Overcast sky
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Blue:
9000-12000 k Blue sky
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Purple:
28000 Northern sky
12000-30000 k Ultra Violet light (black light)

HondaDanny06

Did you go to HID school lol-haha j/k...thanks for the info man, it answered some questions i had.

-805ER-

i heard when putting the HID's on our cars we will have a bunch of scatterd light? how can we fix that .. and do the hid's really light up the street that much better then the stock lights? i want them to light up the street more and make the car look good too but yeah help on those 2 questions thanks in advance

K5^

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The light housing does "scatter" light in different directions and create hot spots. Apparently because the hid's light output is significantly greater than that of the stock halogens, the housing cannot allocate all the light evenly. To alleviate this problem, one would have to go with a retrofit projector setup to aim and spread the light evenly. I really don't see any scattered light issues with simple pnp kits.



To answer your other question, Hid light output ranges in the color temperature range of anywhere from 2500-120000k. The 4300-5000 color range is white. The whole idea of hid's is to mimic the light output of the sun, thus a more intense white light as opposed as to the yellowish color cast by halogens. Personally I would go 6000k, to give it a slight tint of blue. However, the higher in color temp you go, the more light output (lumens) you sacrifice.

Power of Dreams

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Well, if you had a housing that accepts them, you would need get D2R HID bulbs rather than D2S. The former are made for reflector-type housings. D2S HID bulbs are made for projector type. Honestly, I just got my Si today and it doesn't have fogs, so not exactly sure which type of lens the Si foglights use. My bad. Probably doesn't matter since you couldn't use either D2S or D2R in the Si housings (I'm pretty sure on that). So, you would have to deal with the light scatter.