hid's!! who likes them and who doesnt!
- Thread starter smythy75
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sx_turbo
Lifer
im not to sure on that.
elaine gt put hid kit on her car and i can safely say they were flipping bright. much brighter than any stock gt/glanza. they were so bright it kinda done my eyes in a bit. yet hers are road legal.
did you mean efficient as in the ammount of power they draw?
Franza1
Supermoderator & Area Reps Manager
Well there are many factors, the way HID works is different from halogen bulbs the light output pattern is different. lenses that are manufactured for HID bulbs are a different shape. so it isn't the light output from the lense may be more but it is not being focused in the correct area. i had HID's on my car for a while too and the did look alot brighter but where the light was shed wasn't right. when i went back to the normal Halogen bulbs i could notice the difference straight away. also it can dazzle on coming traffic
sx_turbo
Lifer
Franza1
Supermoderator & Area Reps Manager
dac69er
Super Moderator
thing is, alot of people have probably gone from old tired bulbs to HIDs so the difference will be greater. if you changed your normal bulbs to a set of quality 50% brighter bulbs or something then you would notice a difference with those alone.
you can get 60w brighter bublbs my brother had 90w (need bigger relay or something for those) and flippen heck they were bright.
Also when buying HID's please be considerate for other road drivers and do not buy the highest damned ones like the 10000k get something lower down the linke 6000k (not sure how bright they are)
Also when buying HID's please be considerate for other road drivers and do not buy the highest damned ones like the 10000k get something lower down the linke 6000k (not sure how bright they are)
i havent experienced any problems with my uprated bulbs
i got 100w/80w ones much brighter, was worried about the risk of the headlight melting and the wires but i've reguarly checked and they are ok. i fitted them last year and its all ok. had no one flash me either, although my lenses are shit so aint getting the full benefit, so waiting to buy some new lights.
i got 100w/80w ones much brighter, was worried about the risk of the headlight melting and the wires but i've reguarly checked and they are ok. i fitted them last year and its all ok. had no one flash me either, although my lenses are shit so aint getting the full benefit, so waiting to buy some new lights.
azerty
Supermoderator
the poll question is a bit short. nobody can be against HID, as it is a powerfull light. hence why Top cars use them. Now as Franky said, when it comes to GT and Glanza light, they were not designed to match xenon light bulb. so it will glare all around the place. Also. you are missing one main point: color temperature. As this is a very important thing when choosing HID. anything higher than 6000°K is worthless... it will have that chavy blueish light that reflect fog and rain (higher °K figures doesn't mean it is brighter, it only means its color temperature.). that's why OEM HID light are around 4500°K. it's just more efficient. In fact most people confuse Kelvin & Candela. As I just said, Kelvin mesurement is color temperature of the light (yellow, white, blue, purple...). Candela is brightness mesurement. Don't confuse the two
Please don't fit HID bulbs in foglight housing. I realy can't see why you would like to do that, unless you don't want foglight anymore... (or you want enlight FOG device
)
Please don't fit HID bulbs in foglight housing. I realy can't see why you would like to do that, unless you don't want foglight anymore... (or you want enlight FOG device
)
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6000k is the brightest
it has adapters with thicker wiring to prevent that from happening, 6000k and so forth is the temperature, which a 6000k halogen will produce the same effect just not as bright. damage from heat will more be caused by 10000k+ bulbs or HID's.