HID Question. See picture.
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HID Question. See picture.
I noticed my low beams don't have the nice cut off line. They seem to have a yellowish hot spot surrounded by very low light. I'm thinking the bulbs are the cause of it. I ordered new Osram Xenarc 5000K since I'm going to re-lamp both headlights completely.
Any of you experienced this with your headlights?
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Any of you experienced this with your headlights?
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About 5 feet on that picture, but even at further distance you can't see nice straight line.
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Honestly I can't really recall if it was. I watched a Fifth Gear episode once where they pointed this out and referred to as bad bulbs. I would also assume is due to optics.
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Here is a picture with the new Xenarc Cool Blue Intense installed. I'm having an issue as you can see the right side is very different color temperature. Looks almost as 4300K. Going to have to return them. I'm not happy with this.
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What temp scale are those xenarc bulbs? Also I repeat you have to be atleast 10 to 15 ft away from the wall to tell the difference in output. If you want bmw white output then you need to step up the kelvin around 5k.
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These bulbs are 5000K. It shouldn't matter how far are you from the wall in order to tell the difference in color. I can clearly tell the left bulb spill is much whiter.
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Follow up HID
Today I replaced the passenger side bulb for new one, and color difference still remains. Both bulbs produce same color when ignited, but shortly after the right quickly turns yellowish. Both projectors are clean and lenses are not discolored.
Could it be the ballast?
Could it be the ballast?
