I am trying to increase my visibility at night with my 5th gen prelude. So far I have made sure that the headlights are aimed correctly, and I have wetsanded/buffed my headlight housing so that it looks brand new.

In order to increase visibility i believe I have only three choices

1) Get brighter bulbs, a quality bulb such as the Osram Nightbreaker
2) Get a PnP HID kit such as the DDM Tuning one
3) Do a full retrofit

actually there is another

4) Fogs


I need help choosing between 1) and 2), as right now I won't be getting fog lights, and I cannot afford a retrofit at the moment (i believe that is over 400 bucks easily).

I know that many PnP HID kits are not ideal, but some have experienced greater visibility even in stock headlight housings over halogens.

I have noticed that even with stock halogens in the headlight housing there is some glare. So the question is this. Do I go with quality bulbs, or do I go with a PnP HID kit for the greatest visibility. Obviously a retrofit would be ideal, but that is not happening, at least not now.

 

1 and 2 should not even be an option, because you help yourself but blind others on the road. A retrofit is really the best solution, and honestly it is not all that difficult or expensive. They can easily be done for $2-300 and a weekend's worth of time.

Something else that is usually overlooked is the windshield. I know mine has about 200K miles on it and all the little pits really add up at night.

 

I just have OEM fogs and run them all the time, better visibility and you don't blind anyone.

 

Morimoto mini h1 retrofit. Under $300, a few hrs beginning to end, and MASSIVE improvement over stock or pnp hids. I did this on my 4th gen and I could never go back

 

How would you go about doing that someone else suggested that to me as well. Is there a writeup or a how to somewhere?

 

I emailed Matt at theretrofitsource.com about what I might encounter while doing the install with these projectors and he sent back a detailed answer, a pic of a completed install, and a link to a DIY on a 5th gen lude. You can google morimoto retrofit, you'll come across a lot of DIYs but it ultimately comes down to how you do it in particular. If I get less lazy I'll take pix the next time I pull out my lights or possible do a DIY myself and PM it to you

 

Thank you for the info man!

 

I plan on pulling the headlights possibly on Monday FYI. I'll see if I can get my cam to work and snap some pics