Post your Retro-fit HID setup
01-15-09, 04:53 PM
#52
Has anybody upgraded their S5 foglights with HIDs? what kind of bulb do you use? Do you need two extra ballast to power them or you can use the same ballasts from the headlights? I want to install HIDs on my foglights too but I´ve been too busy lately to check the foglights... does anybody knows?
01-15-09, 06:40 PM
#53
In The Twisties
Why? So you can make even more glare? I hear there's a new trend, taking out your headlights and retrofitting in flood lamps like the ones they use in construction. You should try it out, same goes to everyone else in this thread putting HID's into fail H4 housings. I hear the results are great.
01-15-09, 07:16 PM
#54
Well someone has their panties in a bunch about these things. I dont understand why there is so much of a love/hate with these. I like them, alot of people in my town have them, and they never cause a glare when they are in oncomming traffic. TTT made some good arguments but E dub's only argument is glare, but seriously it isnt that bad. Ive had a harder time being blinded when a lifted truck with Sylvania bulbs pulls behind me.
Oh and E Dub, you cant retro fit flood lamps silly. It would draw too much amps. (joke)
Oh and E Dub, you cant retro fit flood lamps silly. It would draw too much amps. (joke)
01-15-09, 08:59 PM
#55
Well I want to upgrade my foglights with HID's because I want them to go with the headlights. My HIDs will be intense no doubt about that, but ill try to prevent the glare by lowering the aiming. I could care less if you dont agree with me, its something I want to do in my car. ****, I dont agree with wide wheels-stretched tires and their 30mm to 50mm bitch fenders but hey people do it anyways... still, its not of my concern. So if yall gonna act all technical up in here, then go bitch at them Initial D fan boys and Drift punks, you could be VERY useful there and making us a HUGE favor.
01-15-09, 09:10 PM
#57
LOL jk jk...
You ARE making good points though TitaniumTT... but come on, put some cream on that itch and let it go... people are not going to spend $1200 for Rally HID. They would spend that money WISELY, not on some lighting thingies. Plus most people do it MORE for the looks.
You ARE making good points though TitaniumTT... but come on, put some cream on that itch and let it go... people are not going to spend $1200 for Rally HID. They would spend that money WISELY, not on some lighting thingies. Plus most people do it MORE for the looks.
01-15-09, 09:35 PM
#58
In The Twisties
The fogs hardly even have a reflector..all your going to do is have this mass amount of light emitting from the front of your car that doesn't shine down the road at all. Not to mention zero cutoff and no beam pattern.
01-16-09, 01:45 AM
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more recent pics of my car. pretty happy with these projectors. 1st pic = above cutoff (no glare, yey). 2nd pic taken below cutoff.
next headlight setup will be a tsx projector retrofit, because of the funky colored + super sharp cutoff they produce. example (not mine)
next headlight setup will be a tsx projector retrofit, because of the funky colored + super sharp cutoff they produce. example (not mine)
01-16-09, 01:46 AM
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oh yeah they are 4300k for anyone wondering. there are no oem hid's over 4300k, that blue color that everyone wants is all in the optics, has nothing to do with bulb temp FYI
01-16-09, 11:03 AM
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Well I want to upgrade my foglights with HID's because I want them to go with the headlights. My HIDs will be intense no doubt about that, but ill try to prevent the glare by lowering the aiming. I could care less if you dont agree with me, its something I want to do in my car. ****, I dont agree with wide wheels-stretched tires and their 30mm to 50mm bitch fenders but hey people do it anyways... still, its not of my concern. So if yall gonna act all technical up in here, then go bitch at them Initial D fan boys and Drift punks, you could be VERY useful there and making us a HUGE favor.
Ebay HIDs stuffed into crappy H4 housings can blind oncoming traffic and result in loss of life.
Not very technical, shouldn't be that hard to understand the point of the posts in this thread. That said, there are always going to people who have the attitude that they will do whatever they want to their own car no matter the fact that it might be unsafe or even damaging to their cars.
01-20-09, 11:41 PM
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does any body got know anythink about these easy retro fit lences????
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/H4-HB...QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/H4-HB...QQcmdZViewItem
01-20-09, 11:51 PM
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whats a Turbo V?
these 2 last post seemed pretty good TTT what do you think of these 2 items. the 2nd one looks like its more promissing then the first. minus the fact even with these they are mostlikly illegal.
01-21-09, 01:55 PM
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i dont think it is illegal and it has a high and low its a bixenon lens that spouse to be for retro fit.
But it seems like they are no pictures or info online about it that i could thrust to buy. Its not cheap
But it seems like they are no pictures or info online about it that i could thrust to buy. Its not cheap
01-22-09, 01:38 AM
#74
The more I think about this crap, the more I want to redo my setup with new projectors. Has anybody else been thinking about trying to install actual projectors and retain the stock pop up look?
This is kinda what I am thinking:
Check out this thread from a Nissan club:
TSX Projector retrofit and HID popups
This is kinda what I am thinking:
Check out this thread from a Nissan club:
TSX Projector retrofit and HID popups
01-22-09, 07:42 AM
#75
There were no survivors
The problem with TSX projectors is that they aren't bixenon, you'll lose your hi-beam which, around these parts at least, will fail you at inspection. Yes, my car passes legit inspection 