HID Lights on standard cars...
15-08-2005, 10:09 AM
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HID Lights on standard cars...
On a car that comes with HID lights as standard which bulbs exactly are HID? I've noticed that extra fog flights / driving lights are still halogen and Im wondering if the main bulbs are actually only HID on dipped beam. When in high / main beam is the actual light a halogen one?
Im looking at conversion kits for the saph and they sell ones which use a HID light for dipped and it has a built in halogen light for main, or you can buy true hi / low beam HID kits.
Im looking at conversion kits for the saph and they sell ones which use a HID light for dipped and it has a built in halogen light for main, or you can buy true hi / low beam HID kits.
15-08-2005, 10:22 AM
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Alot of HID Kits are just on the Dipped Beam, because the Xenon Light isn't fast enough to achieve brightness should you need to flash your High Beam.
There are Bi-Xenon kits available and as it happens, I know someone that has one for sale!!!
The Bi-Xenon Kits have a clever bulb that has a 'Mechanical' part that alters the Reflector inside the bulb, so that you can have Xenon Main Beam too.
There are Bi-Xenon kits available and as it happens, I know someone that has one for sale!!!
The Bi-Xenon Kits have a clever bulb that has a 'Mechanical' part that alters the Reflector inside the bulb, so that you can have Xenon Main Beam too.
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The kits I've been looking at apparantly will pass an MOT. However they are plug and play installation so its easy enough to switch back to halogens for MOTs.
15-08-2005, 11:23 AM
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just low beam as you can see. high beam is in the other lamp on twin headlights so couldnt get hi low beam kit. there is proper expensive hid look bulbs in main beam and fogs tho as you can see they aint bad
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Only problem i can see is ALL std fitted HID bulbs require a lens to concentrate and direct the light onto the road, otherwise they just just light up a wide area and not the patch of road your driving towards.
So the aftermarket HID's are brighter than std halogen bulbs but they dont produce the correct patten and light direction at std bulbs do and you might mind that at speed it dosnt light enough of the road up infront of you
So the aftermarket HID's are brighter than std halogen bulbs but they dont produce the correct patten and light direction at std bulbs do and you might mind that at speed it dosnt light enough of the road up infront of you
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