Philips HID kit - SICK!!!
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Re: Philips HID kit - SICK!!! (RacerXI)
How is the beam pattern? I've just heard that HID kits on our cars tend to scatter light everywhere. It looks great BTW. 
hopefully they look better in person. Where did you order your kit from?
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Re: Philips HID kit - SICK!!! (slmdryd)
I hate HID's! How about you blind on coming traffic? Thanks, now when I veer into your lane in a 79 F250 Custom (w/the 351 mutant engine
) don't say "some stupid ******* in a truck went into my lane and totaled my car!" When I'm driving my car and a car with hid's pulls up behind me I have to literally move my head to the right to avoid the reflection in my drivers side mirror and then I have to flip the little switch on the rear view mirror.
Cliff Notes - HIDs sucks, thanks for blinding your fellow drivers.
P.S. Blinding light wouldn't make me swerve, just an over-exaggeration, but you get the point.
Chris
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) don't say "some stupid ******* in a truck went into my lane and totaled my car!" When I'm driving my car and a car with hid's pulls up behind me I have to literally move my head to the right to avoid the reflection in my drivers side mirror and then I have to flip the little switch on the rear view mirror. Cliff Notes - HIDs sucks, thanks for blinding your fellow drivers.
P.S. Blinding light wouldn't make me swerve, just an over-exaggeration, but you get the point.
Chris
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Re: Philips HID kit - SICK!!! (pLaYbOi)
They shouldn't blind anyone , anymore than normal headlights would or could . If your lamps are way out of alighnment then yeah people are gonna get blinded .
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Re: Philips HID kit - SICK!!! (slmdryd)
Had HID on my GSR, loved them too, but the projector beam lights of Integras are very good at avoiding the common problem that Civics present when using HID lights...
I only bring this up because you posted a pic of your lights, not a pic of the "improved lighting" or the beam pattern.
So I am curious if you are happy that we all know you have HID or if you are happy that you can see much more while you are not scattering more light into oncoming traffic.
Just wondering really, not trying to be an ***.
Reason is , really, that therer are a lot of local guys with the same setup and it really is horrible, their beams do not even touch the road, so I cannot understand why they are happy with their setups (none of these fools have an H4 kit though, they have all modified other bulbs to "fit"
which).
LOL, I could care less how they look on your car (blue/purple/blah blah blah as a cosmetic mod)
-->I want to know if they give you better light output, so you can see more road irregularities, better clarity and farther...
I only bring this up because you posted a pic of your lights, not a pic of the "improved lighting" or the beam pattern.
So I am curious if you are happy that we all know you have HID or if you are happy that you can see much more while you are not scattering more light into oncoming traffic.
Just wondering really, not trying to be an ***.
Reason is , really, that therer are a lot of local guys with the same setup and it really is horrible, their beams do not even touch the road, so I cannot understand why they are happy with their setups (none of these fools have an H4 kit though, they have all modified other bulbs to "fit"
which).LOL, I could care less how they look on your car (blue/purple/blah blah blah as a cosmetic mod)
-->I want to know if they give you better light output, so you can see more road irregularities, better clarity and farther...
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Re: Philips HID kit - SICK!!! (slmdryd)
hey thats at the Lesmill Plaza, I live quite close to there.
Anyways by the pic, it doesnt look like the light is shining on the ground, which defeats the purpose of buying hid lighting.
I'm currently in the process of purchasing some H.I.D lighting for my EK, and I would like to know how NOT to scatter the light, and provide a factory like lighting pattern.
Thanks for the help
Anyways by the pic, it doesnt look like the light is shining on the ground, which defeats the purpose of buying hid lighting.
I'm currently in the process of purchasing some H.I.D lighting for my EK, and I would like to know how NOT to scatter the light, and provide a factory like lighting pattern.
Thanks for the help
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Re: Philips HID kit - SICK!!! (SpoonCivic)
Thanks for your replys.
The reason the light seems to scatter is simply because I have the JDM headlights. I haven't been able to align those things since the day I got them. It scattered with the stock halogen lighting and obviously with the HIDs it amplified. However, I am putting the stock ones back in.
I got my kit from
http://www.XenonDepot.com
The beam pattern is great - I get a straight line against the garage. I was also talking to another guys with a civic that bought his car from xenondepot and he said that angling the lights down a little made them look even better.
A DEFINITE RECOMMENDATION TO ANYONE!!!!!
This is a mod that I see everytime I get in the car and turn on the lights. Its not like an exhaust where you have to dyno the car to see if you got the extra 5 horsepower.
The reason the light seems to scatter is simply because I have the JDM headlights. I haven't been able to align those things since the day I got them. It scattered with the stock halogen lighting and obviously with the HIDs it amplified. However, I am putting the stock ones back in.
I got my kit from
http://www.XenonDepot.com
The beam pattern is great - I get a straight line against the garage. I was also talking to another guys with a civic that bought his car from xenondepot and he said that angling the lights down a little made them look even better.
A DEFINITE RECOMMENDATION TO ANYONE!!!!!
This is a mod that I see everytime I get in the car and turn on the lights. Its not like an exhaust where you have to dyno the car to see if you got the extra 5 horsepower.