If i put HIDs on my car will they melt the Stock headlight housing or any other kind of problem i'd have to worry about?

 

stock is the new cool. put your money into better things.

 

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Yes, you will blind other drivers.

Do not put HID's in fluted lenses. It is not only illegal but dangerous.

 

Ok but no one is really answering my question i already know i might get a ticket or blind people i just wanted to know if they are going to burn the stock headlight housing or fry wires things like that

 

seriously, if you don't care about blinding other drivers, or possibly endangering other peoples lives. I do not feel like you deserve help here.

We don't want to help you potentially harm other people.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by black88si &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">seriously, if you don't care about blinding other drivers, or possibly endangering other peoples lives. I do not feel like you deserve help here.

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not giving a expletive

 

I'm not trying to harm anyone i just want brighter lights so i can see better at night and if theres something else out there thats just as good but not as harmfull like HIDs then tell me please cause thats why i came to HT to find help not start a lame internet fight so please i'm just asking for help

 

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Mistake number 1. Trust me.

 

yeah dooooooooode the sylvania light bulbls work good there brighter than stock but not no HID kit or nothing

 

I am more than willing to help.

Brighter lights are always good. The thing about that.....there is a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things.

If you put HID's in your stock headlights you will see better yes. But you will blind almost all oncoming traffic. If you are passing me when I am driving my truck, there are good odds I am going to run you over.

If you are going to do it the right way (non fluted lenses with a proper HID retrofit) I am more than willing to help.

I am not trying to start an internet fight by any means. Quite contrary actually. But I do not want to contribute to the possible injury of another person. If you are willing to do things the right way, you will actually probably find most of my posts fairly helpful.

 

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lmao thanks

But yeah i already have the sylvania's in my car and i just wanted something alittle brighter

 

[QUOTE=black88si] If you are going to do it the right way (non fluted lenses with a proper HID retrofit) I am more than willing to help.QUOTE]

where can i get a proper HID retrofit? and how does it help?

 

try buffing out your lenses out with rubbing compound and put some new bulbs in.

 

o i guess but like Black 88si said if you want HID you got to doit right some one is going to get pissed at you while your driveing and that never ends up good

 

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where can i get a proper HID retrofit? and how does it help?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Unfortunatey nobody that I know of makes anything. You have to make something yourself.

Most people use TSX, S2000, BMW HID projectors and ballasts with some form of aftermarket headlight lenses. You have to cut your old headlight housing and find a way to mount the projector where the old bulb was.

If you put HID's in your stock fluted housings, the flutes in the lenses will scatter the light in all sorts of crazy directions.

When you do a projector retrofit, you use smooth (clear) lenses. With the retrofit you get a sharp cutoff line that will not blind other drivers.

Eran has some better information than I can give about HID's and how to get them working properly in your car.

Click here for HID questions

 

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Unfortunatey nobody that I know of makes anything. You have to make something yourself.

Most people use TSX, S2000, BMW HID projectors and ballasts with some form of aftermarket headlight lenses. You have to cut your old headlight housing and find a way to mount the projector where the old bulb was.

If you put HID's in your stock fluted housings, the flutes in the lenses will scatter the light in all sorts of crazy directions.

When you do a projector retrofit, you use smooth (clear) lenses. With the retrofit you get a sharp cutoff line that will not blind other drivers.
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Thank you Black88si that really helps me out and i can see what you mean about the light being scattered around, thank you again for the help sorry things got off on the wrong foot

 

No worries.

 

yeahhh and if an accident happened... involving you you MIGHT be at fault lol. sooo you might not want to do this. i saw a post from someone on HT saying after the they isntalled their headlights they had a harder time seing because of scatter(improper isntall i think) so thats another problem....

 

to each his own opinion, these are my HID plug and play 8k. these are in brand new OEM Honda headlights.
haven't been high beamed by other drivers and crusin around town gotten a few compliments

aim them like they are supposed to be and they are awesome.

 

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Listen to this man, Silverstars are around $35 for a pair. Or do a straight up conversion which will cost you lots of money.

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haven't been high beamed by other drivers and crusin around town gotten a few compliments

aim them like they are supposed to be and they are awesome.
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That looks very nice, HIDs in stock headlights? How much?

 

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haven't been high beamed by other drivers and crusin around town gotten a few compliments

aim them like they are supposed to be and they are awesome.
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1: Like I said, it is illegal to use HID's with fluted lenses. There is a reason for this. It is dangerous.
2: Lets see a picture of your cutoff line. I bet there is more scattered light than you know.
3: I hope you get pulled over and your car gets impounded, I will be on the lookout so I can buy it cheap.

 

5ft or closer

facing the wall~ 25ft out

~ 30ft


approx eye height of oncoming traffic, mind you no headlights aiming back for reference.


straight ahead


properly aimed, down towards the passenger side(why the light has so much glare)


1. it's illegal to do a lot of modifications to your car that most people do, how is this any different?
2. so what? it's not like i need em.
3. i hope the condoms you use are good, i'd hate to see ingnorance and indifference spread

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1: Like I said, it is illegal to use HID's with fluted lenses. There is a reason for this. It is dangerous.
2: Lets see a picture of your cutoff line. I bet there is more scattered light than you know.
3: I hope you get pulled over and your car gets impounded, I will be on the lookout so I can buy it cheap.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NastyHabitzCRX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">to each his own opinion, these are my HID plug and play 8k. these are in brand new OEM Honda headlights.
haven't been high beamed by other drivers and crusin around town gotten a few compliments

aim them like they are supposed to be and they are awesome.
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I was hoping someone who knew anything about HID retrofit would post... Yeah if you jam a HID bulb randomly into your housing its not gonna work (scattered light etc) but it'll do the same **** in projectors... THERE ARE OEM CARS WITH HIDS IN FLUTED LENSES I dono where the **** ppl got this idea that fluted lenses = scattered light, my Hella E-Code fluted lenses in my PGT have better cutoff than some oem projectors... Sylvania even sells a fully DOT approved fluted lens hid kits for sealed beam applications lol....
/rant

Anyhow I agree if you improperly install an HIDs in your car and blind me I'd wanna kill you too, but if install HIDs in stock housings PROPERLY and aim your headlights PROPERLY everyone will be OK... Besides I see tons of cars that blind the **** out of me with blue halogen bulbs aimed into the sky and the only HIDs that've I've noticed blinding me are from a local ricer with an H3 retrofit kit hot glued into his stock H4 EG headlights... I know a bunch of people with retrofit hid projectors and retrofit hid kits in stock housings, as long as the arc is lined up exactly where the filament was you're good, if you have the light source in the wrong spot halogen or hid is gonna be jacked (see people putting H4 bulbs in H4H housings for instance).

P.S. For the record yes HID arc will make a Halogen housing's cutoff slightly less precise due to the shape of an arc vs a filament and if your lenses have a **** beam pattern to start with things aren't gonna end well, but if your lights have a decent cutoff aim them right and it'll be fine.

In the end just look at your lights on a wall as pictured above, if it looks like **** try to fix it or do a full retrofit and don't use your lights while they're messed up is that so hard?

Edit: Oh yeah and to answer your origonal question HIDs run cooler than Halogen bulbs.

 

I'd agree with the logic that many mods are illegal but are performed without much of a peep from most people here.

Fact in matter, I too have PnP HID in my OEM crx housings, and they are just fine - I've had people tell me that they look and perform great, especially since aiming them correctly. No blinding at all.

 

man i have 4000k in my 87 rex and they are bright. but they are not melting anything. I had to lower the light down to solve the blinding thing but I still have more then enought light to see for a good distance.