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If you ordered like a spyder headlight or one any other per fabbed projector housing your light out put is going to suck. Especially with 8000k. If your interested you could do a projector retrofit. Checkout The RetrofitSource. I did a retrofit and it looks amazing. I was offering to build them for guys on the forum at cost but never head from anyone. Doing it was a pain in the A but it was worth it. Also don't get any other type of hid color other the. 5000k. 5000k is a nice bright white. I love mine.
Got an ebay kit and was worried about quality and fit. I love them. Super bright, very white light with hints of blue at the edges (6000k). Have been getting compliments on them and the taillights non-stop since they went on. Couldn't be happier. I have some issues being blinded by other drivers in dark situations (night, highway, no other lights, oncoming car with low beams: very hard for me to see anything) and these removed that.
Those are just with the parking lights on, I have to get a good picture of the HIDs in action which is hard to do on my phone. I will get the camera out tonight and try.
Got an ebay kit and was worried about quality and fit. I love them. Super bright, very white light with hints of blue at the edges (6000k). Have been getting compliments on them and the taillights non-stop since they went on. Couldn't be happier. I have some issues being blinded by other drivers in dark situations (night, highway, no other lights, oncoming car with low beams: very hard for me to see anything) and these removed that.
Those are just with the parking lights on, I have to get a good picture of the HIDs in action which is hard to do on my phone. I will get the camera out tonight and try.
Sorry to threadjack, but do those aftermarket housings require the stock headlamp doors/bezels? It doesn't look like it in your picture, but I want to be 100% sure, because my next paycheck is buying those same housings, but my passenger headlamp bezel is broken. Also, do you have the blacked out tail lights as well? I would like to see those as well. Thanks in advance! =)
As for the OP, I have always wanted to do an HID conversion, but I don't see them very often, and I haven't seen many good writeups for a DIY. I'm sure they are out there, but I haven't tried too hard to find them.
It comes as one piece, I wanted to re-use the chrome but there is no way to separate the black trim from the assemble. No I got these:
Wanted to get the chrome version on these headlights but the was afraid the black trim wasn't removable so I went all black. Ordered tails a week before, thought about the smoked taillight but I wanted as much light visibility as possible. Even though they don't match they still look good together.
Next I want a billet style grill.
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It comes as one piece, I wanted to re-use the chrome but there is no way to separate the black trim from the assemble. No I got these:
Wanted to get the chrome version on these headlights but the was afraid the black trim wasn't removable so I went all black. Ordered tails a week before, thought about the smoked taillight but I wanted as much light visibility as possible. Even though they don't match they still look good together.
Next I want a billet style grill.
Did the headlights require any wiring, or was it plug and play? I haven't put a lot of research into them, but I know yours are the same style I want to get. I think it said something about H7 lows and H1 high beams or something. Honestly, I don't understand the H7/H1, and the 6000k, 8000k stuff.
As for the grill, I'm not too big of a fan of the Billet style. I like the stock grille better, especially if it's color matched like the sport style trucks and the lightnings. The chrome ones are cool too with the color matched stripes.
This one had H3 style low beams, H1 style high beams. It's just the style of bulb like ours are originally 9007 style bulbs. I had to remove the regular H3 bulb, put in the HID H3, connect the black/red wires to the original H3 connector, plug the new connector from the ballast into the bulb, then just plug the red/black wires into there corresponding connector on the ballast and plug the new bulb connector into the ballast (one side is + other is -, red+ black-), I also had to cut a hole in the rubber cover (protects bulb/wiring) to fit the grommet the wires (red/black ballast) are run through. Took about 5-10 minutes per light. Basically just matching colors then plug and play.
The 6000k/8000k are the color spectrum of the light.
Without projectors those HIDs are going to shine all over, reducing there effectiveness for you and "dazzling" other drivers. Unless you retrofit them with projectors you won't be happy and will probably get brights flashed at you a lot if not pulled over for driving with high beams on.
HIDs need projectors to properly direct their output, with standard reflective lenses they just go everywhere.
