Thread: legal hi/low beam hid

Originally Posted by joel0407

Even the best quality halogen bulbs won't come close to a cheap set of HID. They are only illegal in low beam and not that hard to install. .

Oh dunno about that, I've seen some pretty good halogens that'll give HIDs a good run for their money. Just look at what they put in aircrafts for example.

You can get Halogens with partial Xenon gas filled bulbs with very interesting results.

one thing with HIDs in high beam or spotties as good as they are is they don't like constant on and off when approaching oncoming traffic, shortens the bulb life dramatically.

Personally im leaning towards getting LED spotties which is a totally different ball game again.

Originally Posted by redandy3575

Oh dunno about that, I've seen some pretty good halogens that'll give HIDs a good run for their money. Just look at what they put in aircrafts for example.

You can get Halogens with partial Xenon gas filled bulbs with very interesting results.

one thing with HIDs in high beam or spotties as good as they are is they don't like constant on and off when approaching oncoming traffic, shortens the bulb life dramatically.

Personally im leaning towards getting LED spotties which is a totally different ball game again.

No way will even the Xenon Halogens come close.

I have tried all the plus 50% up to Plus 90% bulbs (Haven't tried Plus 100%) and they are not a shadow on HID.

The only down side I find with HID is the warm up time with constant dipping of the lights for on coming traffic. If it's one car they are fine but dip them for a few minutes and theres a 10 - 20 second wait until they reach full brightness.

I have run 3 sets for over 5 years now with no bulb failures. I now have sets 4 and 5 on the way and my Skoda has them as standard so you could say 6 sets.

I'd love to see a side by side test of LED v HID. I think the LED will excell in flood lighting with instant on but I doubt they will have the long range of the HID. What I like about the HID is even though they are excellent in long range light, they also spill heaps to flood.

For $35, if you have driving lights, I highly recommend you try HID before you spend hundreds on a LED light bar.

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Originally Posted by redandy3575

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Just out of interest have you seen HID driving lights?

If you get some make sure you aim for 5000k. Anything over 6000k get a bit too blue.

Further information just out of interest. The blue is just a by product of producing so much light. It's just the dominant colour and not wanted in lights. Blue is the hardest colour for human eyes to focus on and caused the most eye strain. It's just trendy at the moment to have bluse lights.

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and even more on blue lights.

If people put some thought into it. Blue coatings on bulbs arent actually blue they are red/yellow filters that filter out red and yellow light, leaving blue. So they are actually removing light.

Blue filters are bad OK.

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I have to agree nothing comes close to hid. 8 years ago I got dad a 55wat hid kit for his hella spotlights, we measured 1.6 km of visible light, and a huge amount of spread.

Can't wait to find out about the led spotlights though, but I'll wait a few years untill the price comes down.

Originally Posted by benji

A much bigger problem than light projection is buggers on high beam who are only 500m behind you.

Get yourself an L322 - auto dimming mirrors mean you never have to worry about turds like that again.

Originally Posted by benji

I have to agree nothing comes close to hid. 8 years ago I got dad a 55wat hid kit for his hella spotlights, we measured 1.6 km of visible light, and a huge amount of spread.

Can't wait to find out about the led spotlights though, but I'll wait a few years untill the price comes down.

The prices are fairly even. Check this mob out: Korr Lighting

Never seen HID spotties for $35 though. Unless its sold out the back of a truck, LOL.

They are still very far apart. Grab a set of halogen globe lights for what ever price. I like Hella Rally 4000 lights. They are one of the more expensive lights but they have a glass refector. Something many others don't. Most use tin or plastic. Glass reflectors give that mirror reflection of light.

Then buy a HID kit for your halogen based lights. I've seen kits as low as $20 but the last one I bought was $35.


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