i was thinkin about install a HID kit into my civic
and also i wanna install a HID kit on my foglight either
so in this case do i need to buy 2 set of HID kit??

 

yes.

 

yup....make sure u get water proof ones too....especially for the fogs...hint...water and electricity are not friends...lol....yea ALOT say they are water proof...but they are not..beware of those....

 

Be prepared for a very poor beam pattern from both sets of lamps.

 

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how so??

 

The stock Civic headlamp housings are not very good to begin with, and when you install a drop-in HID kit that overpowers the halogen optics, the results are a lot of glare and a splotchy, poor beam pattern. The fog lamps suffer from a similar problem.

If you want to upgrade the lighting in your Civic, pick up a set of Philips X-treme Power bulbs for your headlamps and either Philips Vision Plus, or PIAA Ion Crystal H3 bulbs for your fog lamps (depending upon whether you want white or amber light).

 

^^^^^^^^^ true

i think you will be happier (and other drivers) with the results from some high quality bulbs for you head lights and your fogs.

 

ya i was wondering the same. should i get HID's or just "better" bulbs they sell at walmart.. like those philips extreme power bubls.. anyone have pictures to show what they look like as compared to HID

 

I would get the phillips bulbs u said, unless you plan on running projectors with those hid's

 

please elaborate?

 

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Elaborate on what? There is nothing to elaborate on.

Do you even know how true HIDs work?

OP, please do a retro fit, or get some decent bulbs. Otherwise you'll get poor light ouput and blind the sh*t out of oncoming traffic.

 

Dude imagine this : driving on a highway at 1 am tired as expletive after driving across california, and u see a damn civic with some ******* lights as bright as expletive, and all you see is the lights,nothign else!, its not fun man.

 

Do you want better lighting? Or "mAd TytE HiD's!"?

Phillips X-treme /thread

 

you should get them for better lighting not cause the y look cool

 

WERD!

 

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Plug and play HID's give worse lighting than oem. My phillips x-treme's light 3x as good as either PnP HID kit I had.

 

the Phillips bulbs are just as good if not slightly better-lite distribution wise as a drop in HID kit. just get some bulbs, you'll be happier. and wont blind the S**T out of everybody on the road at night.

 

well i dont know about pnp being worse than oem, because i had pnp for a month since i had to wait to find some projectors, and the lighting was wayyy better, was wide, **** i could see highway signs light up from a mile away, and nobody flashed thei high beams , i just aimed the lights down, and it was a 5000k

 

i have a projector..headlight.on my civic..so if i install HID in that will that make anything better????

 

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Elaborate on what? There is nothing to elaborate on.

Do you even know how true HIDs work?

OP, please do a retro fit, or get some decent bulbs. Otherwise you'll get poor light ouput and blind the sh*t out of oncoming traffic.</TD></TR></TABLE>

indeed

 

when i said projector, i meant the hid bulb housing not the egay projectors.

 

anyone have a pic with the philips bulbs on as apposed to stock?

 

I was searching and i found a thread by a guy named erann or eran idfk and he did a comparison of philips vs stock on his hatch

 

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yes, just do a search for his threads.

It's also in his sig.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1888068