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Old May 21, 2009 | 09:18 AM
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i put on the hid and my lights shine in the air i aimed it down but since the headlight is so big it shines a beam into the air still. Is there something I can get to put into the headlamp so it doesnt reflect off the bottom of the headlamp?
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Old May 21, 2009 | 09:26 AM
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Yah, retrofit a projector into your headlight housing. Right now your blinding everyone.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 09:29 AM
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i dont think im blinding everyone cause my lights are aimed to the ground and the angle the light shoots in the air say the angle is 2 o'clock
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Old May 21, 2009 | 09:30 AM
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do a retro fit... and get rid of the crappy ebay plug n play kit. go into the lighting section on HT and look up how to do an HID Retro fit...it gets expensive but is the RIGHT way to do HID's on a non hid car.
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Old May 25, 2009 | 02:34 PM
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my lights used to do the same thing there really is no way to fix this, due to the civics crappy *** lights
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Old Jun 1, 2009 | 07:39 AM
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just put it in a angle were it does not toch the bottom of the housing and dont get to close to the car in the front
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Old Jun 1, 2009 | 07:53 AM
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Instead of putting a reflector on top of the hid assembly, try taking it back apart and painting a square of matte black below the bulb so it doesn't reflect as much. Make sure it's heat paint, I'm sure those hid's get pretty toasty.
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Old Jun 1, 2009 | 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by djjosehernandez
just put it in a angle were it does not toch the bottom of the housing and dont get to close to the car in the front
ill try this tonite.
when im behind my friend in his dc i blind the hell out of him when he looks in the mirror
being as hes dumped and im not that low.
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Old Jun 2, 2009 | 09:54 PM
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i just did, and wow.
no more light way up in the air on the drivers side, the passagner side im going to try moving the bulb in another spot, i moved it and it did make a lil difference but not much.
but now no more throwing light into on coming traffic, now i kinda like my hids lol
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Old Jun 2, 2009 | 10:14 PM
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whats a good "kit" to retro it to HID correctly????
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Old Jun 2, 2009 | 11:40 PM
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what exactly did you do to the headlight housing?
You spray painted the INSIDE of the housing with flat black high temp right?

I'll try that too.
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Old Jun 2, 2009 | 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by fastrxu
what exactly did you do to the headlight housing?
You spray painted the INSIDE of the housing with flat black high temp right?

I'll try that too.

not the best of ideas from past experience............
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Old Jun 4, 2009 | 02:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Tractor_Boy
not the best of ideas from past experience............
why would you say that? can you explain?
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Old Jun 4, 2009 | 06:11 AM
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cuz its very easy to paint too much and mess it up if you dont know what your doing, and it doesnt look very good either, but what I did this on were mustangs, few GM cars and some trucks also the paint generally doesnt last very long either
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