This is not my first time tampering with my headlights, so I normally preach on about retro-fitting to upgrade to H.I.D. lighting. However, I've seen questionably good results without a retro-fit with reputable companies such as TYC. So here I've gone out on a limb, and put TYC to the test.

The car is a 2000 Accord coupe. The housings are TYC black housing projectors. The H.I.D.s are a no-name kit with H1 bulbs in a 6000Kelvin color temp. This is the lowest I could find while trying to reach the 4200-4300K of OEM bulbs.

The halogen projectors in these TYC housings have great output with halogen bulbs, and even better output with Sylvania Silverstars, so I figured I'd try to 1-up once more. I'll let you be the judge of whether this was worth the $110 for a knock-off H.I.D kit. I believe the results speak for themselves...













Roadtests:








Worth it?

? ?

 

I like dude. i say its worth it !! where did you buy them from ?

 

wow, thats amazing light output out of those things, im very impressed.
do you happen to have any pictures from the front of the car though? like looking towards the car?
and how blinding is it towards incoming drivers? have you had anyone flash you yet? or have a friend drive towards you?

im very impressed tho, good job

 

That looks really well done. Very similar to the out put of my Maxima

 

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The H.I.D kit was purchased from 'japanimportparts' on eBay. $92, with expensive *** shipping, $40, and $18 extra to have them overnighted to me so I can begin my cross-country road trip today.

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do you happen to have any pictures from the front of the car though? like looking towards the car?
and how blinding is it towards incoming drivers? have you had anyone flash you yet? or have a friend drive towards you?

im very impressed tho, good job </TD></TR></TABLE>

Don't have any head-on pics yet, but I'll get some when I settle in tonight. They're crystal white if you're in the 'beam', the projectors have a very nice color from the cut-off shield, for a bright purpleish blue, and they look extremely clean and white above the cutoff. No glare whatsoever. That's the point of having the sharp cut-off afterall... No flashes or complaints from other drivers. Since the headlights are so low to begin with, I aimed them with 1/4" drop for ever two feet of distance. Basically 2.5 inches lower than headlight level at 20 feet, and 5" lower at 40 feet. This gave me the furthest coverage of light, without blinding others.

Keep in mind that some of those pics are with me sitting up-hill to give a better example of the cutoff.


This picture was taken on a flat road, and is what I normally see while driving.

 

wow, thats amazing, lol.. im definately looking into this.. where did you pick up your tyc projectors from? whats the point of retrofitting your headlights when you can get this? how much better of a cut-off can you really get? lmao

 

So how much did you spend in all?????

 

hey, did you get another accord? i still remember the old one

no comment on the picture of hight, i know how to make a 194 blub looks like an atomic bomb blast with a 40 years old camera as well as photoshop

i guess the better question would be how do you like it, did it change the glare cut off at all?

 

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no comment on the picture of hight, i know how to make a 194 blub looks like an atomic bomb blast with a 40 years old camera as well as photoshop

i guess the better question would be how do you like it, did it change the glare cut off at all?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah yeah lol. I can make a picture of cow crap look like a chrome-plated ferrari myself. Actually, I didn't touch these pictures at all. They were shot in manual mode to get the most true representation of the light, and then resized to 25% in photoshop. Not a single other thing was done.

Yes i did get a new car. Here's the only pics i have of it for now...



infamous cell phone pic...

 

very nice looking so what was the total cost?

 

also, how hard was this to do? on a scale of 1-10 1 being complete retard and 10 being pro and 5 being average joe

 

I think those headlights goes for about $175 shipped on ebay and as far how hard to install, I would rated a 5 an average joe. Also, TYC's products are pretty close to stock quality.

 

what kind of halogen bulbs to these take? i wanted to get some luminics but i dont know what type of bulb goes in the projectors

 

I believe the bulb size for the projectors are H1. Question does these come with puilt in foglights?

 

no they do not just parking, turn, low beam, high beam

 

if you do the HID retrofit like the Op did, what has to be done to the TYc housing? anything other than "plug and play"? also, do you maintain halgon bulbs for your high beams if you do a HID retrofit?

 

That looks GREAT!! I've been contemplating this for a long time and was really worried about spending the money on this, but as I can see in your pix it is WELL worth it. Thanks AfAccord

 

the light output looks great.

the headlights themselves, i'm definitely not a fan of.

 

Looks damn good
Gotta love HID's

 

Hmm....
So the headlights are off ebay?
Will they melt ? :/

I wanna get some HID's but im afraid my egay stuff wont take IT.
But Im lookin foward to DIY black housing soon

 

Im with iam7head on the pictures. After owning HID's I can really say those pictures are very misleading. You may have set it to "manual mode" for the truest pic but there's no way in hell that its just sudden darkness like that anywhere outside.

The TYC's have always gotten good reviews as far as HID plug and play. I would just suggest getting a better brand HID kit. Ive gone cheapo and learned the hardway.

Ive had HIDs in stock housings and now im on a retrofit. Truthfully the retro is disappoiting as far as lighting up the road. All you really get is a pretty" cutoff.

 

Where can you get get TYC's????

 

ive seen them on ebay

 

Nice post, AFAccord.

I guess I'll have to give the TYCs some more credit from now on. Not much more, but at least it's a start.

The pictures themselves look as if the ISO was turned down as low as possible in order to expose the amount of lighting that HIDs provide, hence the heavy contrast between light, and dark.

 

maybe the iso was messed with, since he did state they were taken in "manual" mode. but if the iso was turned all the way down the areas that the headlights hit would be compleatly white washed. I think the point of this post is to state whether people agree with his project, not whether the op "doctored" his pictures. I say on a job well dont to the OP keep the good work and cool ideas coming.