View Poll Results: What to do with Extra HID/Xenon Kits
Xenon/HID Foglights?
7
41.18%
Xenon/HID Highbeams?
1
5.88%
Xenon/HID Foglights & Highbeams?
4
23.53%
Sell it and buy another mod with it.....
5
29.41%
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Extra HID Kits.... What to do???
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Extra HID Kits.... What to do???
OK... those who know me, feel I have lots of 'excess stuff' that I don't need... and I guess, I am guilty of that...
This brings me to the topic of the post...
I have a few HID kits sitting around.... should I retrofit or should I just get rid of it and sell them...
I already bought & retrofitted OE Xenon headlights on my car...
Choices for extras:
- Xenon/HID Foglights?
- Xenon/HID Highbeams?
- Xenon/HID Foglights & Highbeams?
- Sell them all and buy a diff mod....
This brings me to the topic of the post...
I have a few HID kits sitting around.... should I retrofit or should I just get rid of it and sell them...
I already bought & retrofitted OE Xenon headlights on my car...
Choices for extras:
- Xenon/HID Foglights?
- Xenon/HID Highbeams?
- Xenon/HID Foglights & Highbeams?
- Sell them all and buy a diff mod....
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You can be like me and throw a set in your high beams :0) I know you keep telling me it's not that necessary, but once you have it, you'll find reasons to use them. If you have an H7 kit, I'll buy it off you to put in my daily driver if the price is right. :0)
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Originally posted by Josh K
You can be like me and throw a set in your high beams :0) I know you keep telling me it's not that necessary, but once you have it, you'll find reasons to use them. If you have an H7 kit, I'll buy it off you to put in my daily driver if the price is right. :0)
You can be like me and throw a set in your high beams :0) I know you keep telling me it's not that necessary, but once you have it, you'll find reasons to use them. If you have an H7 kit, I'll buy it off you to put in my daily driver if the price is right. :0)
I'm considering the Foglights since I use that more... like most mods, its more for aesthetics then for functionality.....
I have regular D2R/D2S kits... but, an adaptor is all you need for H7 applications... all it is an an attachment ring...
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Originally posted by hinhin7
Hey Danny, do you think you have extra sets for foglights for your car and my car?
Let me know,
THanks,
Solihin
Hey Danny, do you think you have extra sets for foglights for your car and my car?
Let me know,
THanks,
Solihin
I haven't had much time to myself to mess around with it, but I'll give it a whirl soon... I might even modify my Lorinser fog lights to be projector headlights... there is no fog in Cali, so I'd rather have an extra set of driving lights down ther...
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Originally posted by XcvX
let me know how much you'd want for one of those kits, i might be interested in upgrading to some xenons.
let me know how much you'd want for one of those kits, i might be interested in upgrading to some xenons.
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Originally posted by xyzpl
SELL IT and get some PERFORMANCE MODS!!!!!!
SELL IT and get some PERFORMANCE MODS!!!!!!
either that, or use all the kits and still buy performance mods for my car... i like to have my cake and eat it too, and I love cake!!!
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you talking to me? I'll keep the bimmer up until I get the Mercedes. Don't wanna sport pics of a car I don't own yet. Don't be hatin'. Only thing, seriously only thing that's better about a bimmer is the manual tranny's...but I'm over spending so much on a car that keeps breaking down.....until I can afford it for real
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Originally posted by mmgrad
I have the lights I need (and enough for you too), but, its a matter of retrofitting it onto the foglights...
I haven't had much time to myself to mess around with it, but I'll give it a whirl soon... I might even modify my Lorinser fog lights to be projector headlights... there is no fog in Cali, so I'd rather have an extra set of driving lights down ther...
I have the lights I need (and enough for you too), but, its a matter of retrofitting it onto the foglights...
I haven't had much time to myself to mess around with it, but I'll give it a whirl soon... I might even modify my Lorinser fog lights to be projector headlights... there is no fog in Cali, so I'd rather have an extra set of driving lights down ther...
Thanks,
Solihin
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Originally posted by rval_1999
Sell Me a Xenon Bulb, so I don't get raped by the (s)tealer........
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Sell Me a Xenon Bulb, so I don't get raped by the (s)tealer........
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Originally posted by hinhin7
Yeah definitely Danny, Ill just wait until you got something for my foglights, and let me know how much you are asking.
Thanks,
Solihin
Yeah definitely Danny, Ill just wait until you got something for my foglights, and let me know how much you are asking.
Thanks,
Solihin
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Definately upgrade your fogs, would looks hecka sick with that DTM front you got going on, and if you dont like it, sell it and buy Whelen Police Strobes, who says you can can't have a little fun on the roads? Or take that money and get some ICE installed...
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Originally posted by Viktorious
Definately upgrade your fogs, would looks hecka sick with that DTM front you got going on, and if you dont like it, sell it and buy Whelen Police Strobes, who says you can can't have a little fun on the roads? Or take that money and get some ICE installed...
Definately upgrade your fogs, would looks hecka sick with that DTM front you got going on, and if you dont like it, sell it and buy Whelen Police Strobes, who says you can can't have a little fun on the roads? Or take that money and get some ICE installed...
i've had ICE in my previous car... and started it on the CLK, but I went back to the OE look for something cleaner... but some good ICE is very tempting...
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Originally posted by espo5166
Anyone put HID's into the front citylights?
espo
Anyone put HID's into the front citylights?
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Nope - I did mean the small inner lights next to the grill.
If they were properly aimed why would they be blinding? I think they would look great with 2 sets of HIDs in the front. no more yellow lights and be great for the dark highways.
espo
If they were properly aimed why would they be blinding? I think they would look great with 2 sets of HIDs in the front. no more yellow lights and be great for the dark highways.
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Well aside from the fact that the small inner lights can't be aimed, the city light bulb is slightly larger than a thumbnail, and no one makes HID's for a city light. The inner lights also house the high beams, and although it is possible to put HID's in there, aiming them so as not to blind oncoming traffic is essentially impossible due to the fact that the lens for that light is mean for a high beam application and thus doesn't have any way of diffusing the light or creating the right cutoff/pattern. Also, the high beams don't aim independently of the lows.
If you simply want bulbs to match the color of your Xenon low beams, there's a variety of blue tinted bulbs but no one's really been happy with the quality. I have LED city lights that match the color pretty well, but are not as bright as the stock city lights.
If you simply want bulbs to match the color of your Xenon low beams, there's a variety of blue tinted bulbs but no one's really been happy with the quality. I have LED city lights that match the color pretty well, but are not as bright as the stock city lights.
