Bixenons?
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i don't have 05 headlight yet but soon i will...
i still have forsty light and the HID spread out like hell and it could blind da **** out of people. Yesterday i was driving home, a car keep on flashing High beam at me and i flash him back, i guess he thought i have high beam at him...
and one time i was driving on freeway, i had two to three car lengh(not tailgating) in front of the 80's pick up truck, he show me the finger....
so i guess with 05' light with HID it won't spread out as much and a bit brighter
i still have forsty light and the HID spread out like hell and it could blind da **** out of people. Yesterday i was driving home, a car keep on flashing High beam at me and i flash him back, i guess he thought i have high beam at him...
and one time i was driving on freeway, i had two to three car lengh(not tailgating) in front of the 80's pick up truck, he show me the finger....
so i guess with 05' light with HID it won't spread out as much and a bit brighter
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I picked up a set of OEM frosty Xenons (not BIX) in great condition for $250 on this board. If you wanted good quality OEM Xenons without taking a big chunk out of your wallet, I recommend going this route.
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Rlee2135 qs for you
Rlee2135 qs for you, i'm buying a set of aftermarket Projector Bixieon headlights, i dont think they come with HID BALLAST. Currently i have the FOrsty lights like my old C320" which i hate" what size bulb are you using wih the projector bixeons? h4 h7 ? any help would be greatly appreciated
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i don't have 05 headlight yet but soon i will...
i still have forsty light and the HID spread out like hell and it could blind da **** out of people. Yesterday i was driving home, a car keep on flashing High beam at me and i flash him back, i guess he thought i have high beam at him...
and one time i was driving on freeway, i had two to three car lengh(not tailgating) in front of the 80's pick up truck, he show me the finger....
so i guess with 05' light with HID it won't spread out as much and a bit brighter
i still have forsty light and the HID spread out like hell and it could blind da **** out of people. Yesterday i was driving home, a car keep on flashing High beam at me and i flash him back, i guess he thought i have high beam at him...
and one time i was driving on freeway, i had two to three car lengh(not tailgating) in front of the 80's pick up truck, he show me the finger....
so i guess with 05' light with HID it won't spread out as much and a bit brighter
It was saying that yes, the projector style are better.
ESPECIALLY if you are going to something like 8000K.
The point they made was the higher Kelvin lights,
without being focused will tend to glare. It's the nature of the light itself.
Without the projector style lighting, they stated that the lower Kelvin areas
4500-6000 will give the most usable light, and not blind oncoming drivers.
Shoot, too bad I didn't save the link.
Oh wait, I found it!
http://www.intellexual.net/hid.html#hid
I just bought ordered some cheap lights from ebay for $120, no Xenon setting required. Warrantied for a year...we'll see how they work out.
I was going to go for the 5000K but then read in their feedback that their lights tended to run on the lower end of the scale.
One guy had bought 10000K, and was expecting them to be purple.
Who would want purple lights?
Another hing I noticed, was various group buys over the years on different sites, here, mbklasse, bmw sites, all the links to the people selling them were dead, and people were paying a lot more for supposedly
"quality" stuff.
I did see one site that sold the Philips kits for about 350.
I may learn a lesson from the cheap kit and eventually go to something like that.
I wonder if I can list that site? Hmmm.....
sponsors and all....
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