Alien-83

Hi am new in the forum i have a 2006 clk500 its got the Amg package.
the car already got the hid xenon stock, i was wondering too install hid kit at the fog lights the car also has the corner-illuminating, will it still work using the hid's i can disable and enable the corner-illuminating in the dash.

shadenfroh

Installing HID in the fog lights makes you Not a Cool Dude™

Edit: Not to be off topic or come across as picking a fight... I live in a country where at least 70% of headlights are not aligned. Every single rice craphead has kit HID headlights, the real cool ones have HID fog lights. I can tell you that it's f*d up. I know all the arguments people make. If you don't see this kind of thing very often in the states (or where you live), just appreciate what you have.

Alien-83

Its not to make me cool i live in the north usa and we have almost no street lights and i drive threw mountains and its pitch dark i was planing to remove the white and use 3K hid since we have heavy fog sometimes i cant see anything and i have to stop and wait for the fog to clear.

Rudeney

In that case, I can tell you that you definitely do not want HIDs in your fog lights. The reflector housing will scatter the light way too much to be useful in fog. I'd stick with good halogen bulbs.

merceBENZ

Stick with stocks. Our lights are superb as they can be.

shadenfroh

Definitely. I see a couple Mercedes cars (and a lot of other brands) when I'm walking around the neighbourhood and the beam pattern on the road is horrific - nothing close to usable light. As Rudeney said, HID in a headlight designed for halogen will never produce results as good as filament bulbs.

I got the Osram Fog Breakers (yellow in colour) for my fogs and I'm very disappointed with them. As opposed to 3000K HID, these bulbs put out yellow light only because of the yellow filter, but I expected them to bump the output in order to compensate for the lost light. Instead, I just got 1/3 of the light. I'm ditching them and getting the Philips Xtreme Vision +130%.

I can post comparison photos of the Osram, the Philips (when I get them later this week) and a generic bulb if that will be any help.

Alien-83

Am getting some hid's on the fog lights i need it since i live in the north next to canada up north and we have a lot of dears,bears,moses,bob cats, running around and other critters, i purchased 5k and 8k to test with one i like.

sailorben

Have you not read the above replies? A HID in your fog will not be as usable in the fog as a good filament in the projector designed for filament bulbs.

Alien-83

I did but i still like to test it if i dont like it, I may get some projectors fog lights for this car

Rudeney

The best lights I had in a car were the quad-projector headlights from "Fishcake" in my CLK. I put HID kits on both low and high beams. The only downside was using the high-beams for flashing as the HIDs took a few seconds to warm up to full brightness. The upside that it was like driving a football stadium down the road.

Alien-83

People reported a UFO in your area

shadenfroh

I thought both of the projectors were bi-xenon? I guess that's asking too much from an aftermarket piece.

Rudeney

Bi-xenon systems use a movable shutter that lifts to "open up" the beam pattern. The "Fishcake" DEPO headlights are just two pairs projectors. The outer low beams have fixed shutters for a proper cut-off pattern. The inner projectors have no shutter so they project a full beam pattern. Here's my thread showing my installation:

https://mbworld.org/forums/clk-class...ad-xenons.html