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HID install / quality writeup for JAMES@ ACGSD's HID's

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Old 02-19-2009 | 06:13 PM
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HID install / quality writeup for JAMES@ ACGSD's HID's

All I received my HID's from JAMES about an hour ago and of course I couldnt wait so I installed them immediately!! I just wanted you guys to see what he was selling for a great price.

The install was VERY straightforward since all of the connectors on the bulb went to its own cable on the ballast. No cables had to be cut whatsoever. The only mod I had to do was cut a hole into the lastic light cover, this is where the wires have to come out and it even has a gasket to reseal that area. Honestly it could not have been made any simpler!! The install took me about 45 minutes for both sides. When I finished the passenger side I turned the headlights on and it made my Silverstars on the driver side look like yellow mud LOL!! The HID's looked like pure white in the daylight. I have attached some pics of the kit without the error cancellors and the bulbs I ordered are 5000K. I am happy with them so far, but I will drive around a bit tonight so that I can get more of a feel for the light output and cutoff. The pics are from my camera so they are not the best. Here are the pics of the kit straight out of the box.


Here is a pic of the passenger side install. You can see the ballast at the top of the photo. I installed the ballast upside down on the fender with double-sided tape. I think it gave it a cleaner look and made it easy to access if needed.




This is a pic of the HID lights during the day..I will take night pics later tonight.


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Old 02-19-2009 | 09:13 PM
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NIGHT HID PICS

Ok I tried the best I could with the night pics, even with my digital camera...I guess I need a better camera.







Every front angle pic I took was completely useless and blurry so I will try again later.
Old 02-20-2009 | 12:58 AM
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looks good, im sure you'll see alot more road with those 5000k then my headlight & foglights w/8000k...
Old 02-20-2009 | 09:10 AM
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Looks good Greg! Works pretty well with you projectors? My foglight just went out. I think I'm going to get some 55w 3000k HID's
Old 02-20-2009 | 12:38 PM
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Wuz up man!! Yeah they needed to be adjusted after the swap but they came out looking pretty bad ***. I am sure that I need some more adjusting but DAMN do they make as difference..its literally like night and day now.

I will let everyone know that WE DO NOT NEED THE ERROR CANCELLOR on the W208!!! I never even hooked up them up and I didnt get an error on the dash at all!!! So everyone save your 30 bucks.

All in all your total should only be 85 bucks without the error canceller. This is with bulbs and ballast. I a very glad that I went with 5000K...I wouldn't mind going with some 8000K for my fogs though. I just cracked a lens on the way to Houston so I need some new fogs now.

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