I recently purchased a civic with HIDs and one of the bulbs were out , on the balast it says d2r and d2s only but the actuall bulbs look different , can someone tell me wich one i actually need to get?

 

Can i suggest taking them both out, trashing them. NO one wants your HID blasting them in the face. there not that kewl.
however the phillips extreme 80% are very kewl and street leagl. they will last a very long time and only cast about 50$ shipped.

 

ok... didnt help, anyone else?

 

thats an h4 kit with a halogen bulb used for the high beam. Its the wanna-be version of the bi-xenon setup. Ebay may be the best bet to find one of those. Just make sure the connectors are the same so it will plug up easily

 

you have some funky bulb from china or something. they are cheap aftermarket crap.

to replace them get some h4 hid bulbs from ebay

 

You have an H4 "bi-xenon" bulb. Try this: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1847971

Great seller/customer service!

 

buy a some tsx projectors

and do a custom retrofit

screw that h4 bixenon crap.. your lights create alot of glare, and really dont' help..

they may look bright to you.. but the distance they reach is nothing compared to a retrofit

buy the bulbs the first poster said to buy.

they last longer, and actually help.

also it could be that your made in china ballast died... so u might just have to replace the ballast instead.

swap the "dead" bulb with the working one.. if it still works... you have a dead ballast.

the hid kit ballast die more often than their bulbs..

ebay is the source if you want to get a new ballast

 

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Bump.

Which bulbs does this guy need?

He doesn't want to remove his kit just because you don't like it, and he doesn't sound like he plans to upgrade or modify it right now. He just wants both of his headlights to light.

Anyone out there who can help? I don't know much about HID.

 

What's the back of the bulb look like. You might need to go with somebody who supplies the kits to get a replacement.

 

He needs H4 HID low, halogen high bulbs (he can get just hid low and lose his high's or get hid low/hi with moving bulb or "true bi-xeonon" as most sellers claim)..EDIT- Also the reason why the ballast lists "D2S or D2R" is because it's originally ment as an oe use ballast (which used D2S or D2R bulbs in most apps) but has been converted to be a plug n play ballast (frankly the label is just a cheap way to "classy" up a cheap product to make it look more legit). Now with HID plug n play units I'd start checking things before buying bulbs:
First, check the fuses to make sure it's not a bad fuse for the low beam (I've had it happen to me)
Second, swap the bulbs from one ballast to the other to see if again it's the bulb or something else.
And third, Check for loose connections or (again had this happen to me and I just fixed it) check the condition of your H4 sockets, a burned/melted socket and wires can hinder the deliverance of power to the bulbs/hid ballasts. My units were melted and the wires were toasted quite nicely from the previous owner running A. high watt bulbs and B. (cause he told me) running his high beams on as his lows ("well the low was burned out").

I had a pair (had them go out around the same time) of hid pnp bulbs die, when they died what they'd do is struggle to fully initialize (would flash several times if at all and it would take several on-off cycles to get them to light) and if they did light after some much time (went from over 30 mins, to like 5...) they'd go out. When I looked at the bulb the lil bubble where the hid arc is created was black, this is a great sign the bulb is dead (but not always, again check your bulbs).

Now to buy replacements, you can hit up the vendors on here that sell hid kits (make sure to verify that they sell hid low, halogen high bulbs) and see if they'll sell you just bulbs OR you can hit up ebay and again search for the bulbs.... I personally would hit ebay, there is a vendor I've used several times for bulbs and kits who has great prices and I've yet to have an issue with his products (if buying just bulbs he takes two weeks to ship but 9007 hid low, halogen high for 45 bucks is worth the wait).

 

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however the phillips extreme 80% are very kewl and street leagl. they will last a very long time and only cast about 50$ shipped.</TD></TR></TABLE>
honestly.....i guess you dont like then.
OP what degree are you running??? i wanna do this in my EG also but i cant decide between 8k or 6k... do a followup w/ pics for me plz.

 

nice avatar

but you could get a replacement h4 hid bulb on ebay (your choice for a brand name or whatever) and just splice up the wires. yuo'll be good to go

im guessing you know the color temps and all that

 

hey what are the colors to temp?? i looked it up before but lost it all...help??

 

uppppppppp

 

8k have a blueish tint to them and 6k are white so depends on what you like
i have the 8k in my sir

 

^Incorrect.

~4300 = white
6000 = blue tint
8000 = very blue tint
Everything above that is purple.

BTW, if you want the bulbs to match, you'll have to replace both. They color shift during use due to salt deposits.

 

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From Eran's sig:

REF: Automotive Lighting, Color, and You

 

ok if the 6ks have a blue tint it must be a VERY light blue tint
so would the 10k be a light tint of purple and 12k be very purple?

 

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so would the 10k be a light tint of purple and 12k be very purple?</TD></TR></TABLE>
How poor do you want your night visibility?