Thread: Gone cold on the HID idea.

Originally Posted by Discopug

I have been wanting to convert my disco lights to HID for a while now, also my driving lights,
I am also wanting to get a small set of HID driving lights for my motor bike.
Had a bit of a look a while ago but couldn't find much on ebay must have looked in the wrong area.
Whats it under?

Try searching under Bi xenon HID

Originally Posted by Discopug

Had a bit of a look a while ago but couldn't find much on ebay must have looked in the wrong area.
Whats it under?

try an ebay search for "hid h4 dual", that's all I did. If you don't add the "dual" bit you have to sift through hundreds of standard ones

I love my HIDs. Well, when they were working properly anyway.

I thought I'd do the right thing & buy from someone in Australia who advertised a good (15mth) warranty, technical support & parts back up. I won't mention his eBay user name publicly (PM if you want to know ).
I bought a bi-xenon H4 kit (sliding shield type) & a H3 kit, both in 4300k.

I was disappointed that the kit arrived direct from China instead of the advertised Melbourne but I guess that happens with eBay.
Fitting was quite straight forward apart from fiddling around with the globe/headlight seal (why don't they tell you the bulbs can come apart for this ). The performance was great & I was very happy.

Then one of the H4s started to stick on low beam. A few rapid applications of the high beam switch would eventually coax the slide into action & it would be good for a while. Leave it overnight & it would stick again though.
Try explaining this to someone who writes only in Chinglish . Eventually I got through to him that this was a globe problem after swapping globes from side to side to verify & he sent me 2 replacement globes. They were the wrong type completely (10000k HID High, Halogen low) & I sent them back.
Then a package arrived from China - a complete set minus the ballasts. The new globes connections were different so I had to replace the harness- no big deal, just more fiddling around than I wanted. Fit it all up & one globe doesn't want to stay lit. A quick flash & she's out.

Send another message to the eBay seller & he can't explain what's wrong. I swap globes from side to side & confirm that it's a globe issue.

He now says that he'll refund me my money as it seems too hard to fix my problem. I've asked him for an exact refund amount before sending back 1 1/2 kits (as I suspect he doesn't want to refund postage) but has now come back saying that he can't fault my original sticking globe. He's had it for nearly 2 months & now tells me that he can't fault it .

I'm glad that I paid with Paypal so I'm going to get my money back that way if he doesn't come through to my satisfaction.



I've just bought a 50w 6000k set direct from China for the P38a (different seller). Had a trial fit on the weekend & it doesn't trigger the bulb out warning system so that looks positive .



The lesson I've learnt:
If you're going to buy a cheap kit, buy it direct from China as the middle man in Australia doesn't seem to have a clue (in my case at least).

Originally Posted by Scouse

I bought a bi-xenon H4 kit (sliding shield type) & a H3 kit, both in 4300k.

Can I ask what you put the H3's in?

Originally Posted by Treads

Can I ask what you put the H3's in?

A cheap set of Aunger lights bought from BigW.
They're approx 20cm in diameter.

The 50w 6000k set is going into a set of round IPFs & I'll be fitting another 50w set into a couple of Narva bull lights (providing I like the 6000k lights).

just finished upgrading the navara and disco with these absolutely brilliant
swmbo absolutely can't believe the difference it has made to her lights
recommend them to all i have the same kits as rangieman
cheers ken

Hi all, can any lighting guru's out there explain the differences in colours available (4300k - 10000k)? And which suits night driving best.
I personally hate the blue ones, I'm guessing the "pure white" colour lights would be better to drive with????
Thanks in advance,

Tim