Thread: Ebay HID spotlights

I personally don't rate HID lights. Bright? Sure. But the bulbs do break so carry spares. The ballasts can fail.... nah give me a decent halgoen anyday. I've a Defender it's an old school thing !

If going HID buy quality not cheap ebay as you'll get what you pay for.

Like Vlad said, Ebay cheap stuff, I wouldn't. Personally I would go with LED now anyway if buying again. Currently I've got standard Light Force that go pretty hard and from memory they were only about $340 or something.


We just put $1500 worth of LED on the Mack Low Loader, WOW, and the best part I find about LED is you don't get the glare back off road signs etc. My eyes get far less tired, it's a real white light, love em.

No experience with those lights but I have done good quality hid conversions to driving lights in the past and have been very pleased with the outcome.

Actually just removed my super-duper led driving lights to go back to my old hid converted lights as I find LEDs to be a poor option for a driving light.

Has anyone found a source of LED spots that actually are spots? I have tried several that are called "Spots" but they really are more like floods. The nearfield light is so bright that distance vision is very limited.

Otherwise LED's are great.

I bought a set of HID's similar to those on ebay. The beam was okay, but the height adjustment was on a spline, and one spline had them possum spotting and the next one down was much too low.

Yep,

Bought as pair of these cheap HID's he other day and have now fitted them to my Defender.
Too early to say how long they'll last, but at $135 a pair, (for 7" 75 Watters) I don't have a lot to lose I reckon.

They certainly put out plenty of light..very blue light..makes the headlights look very yellow.

Only issue was that the angle of elevation adjustment is not indefinitely variable. There's a sort of ratchet mechanism that only allows that angle to be set in discrete steps. Had to bend one of the mounting lugs slightly to get the exact elevation I wanted.

Alan

Originally Posted by rar110

Has anyone had experience with these or similar HID spotlights?

2 X 7inch 55W HID Xenon Driving Lights Spot 4x4 OFF Road 4WD UTE Flood Work BLK | eBay

I have had those ones on for around 4 years now, they work well and are nice and bright, I had a lens shatter with a stone, so may be worth finding ones that come with covers, but it was easy to get a replacement lens, there are a couple of places in oz online that sell spares, cost around $20 to replace so was quite happy. I have Trucklite LED headlams now also, and as good as they are the HID's still out perform them, I went for the euro beam instead of spot, I think it is just a wide beam rather than spot.

cheers
Pat

Ive had them for over a year and they are brilliant, bought a set for my father, and mates use them to, make sure you get a spread and a pencil beam, great value for money but of course if your a trendy that needs a brand name they wont be any good

I had a set of them on my 110 think I had them in there for nearly 4years with no dramas
Out perform night stalker by a long shot but that wasn't hard.

The car did the cape and they were dunked a number of times too and stayed sealed they also gave good distance (we had pencil and spot)

Can't complian I thought they were a good light for the money but I paid 300bux for the set back then but at the time other units were more like 700/900

This time I will be putting fyrlyts on though but if you want an inexpensive light I would say yes to these particular ones