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Old 02-28-2007, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 06f150lariat
some guy on ebay sells the HID's for about 120.00 a piece with free shipping, i have seen them, and they look just as good if not better than others, they are made by like siemens, and panasonic i believe
These kits are usaully not bi-xenon, low and high beam, and if they are the high beam is halogen so its a waste. Some people say the lows are so good you really dont need the highs but more is always better right. lol

Remeber that HID's in the stock housing will BLIND oncoming traffic.
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Originally Posted by LovetheTide
These kits are usaully not bi-xenon, low and high beam, and if they are the high beam is halogen so its a waste. Some people say the lows are so good you really dont need the highs but more is always better right. lol

Remeber that HID's in the stock housing will BLIND oncoming traffic.
the bi-xenons that he sells are 180 bux....i did forget to mention that part, sorry, and i believe that they are both xenon, not halogen, though you are right, the only reason i am against them is because they are blinding and annoying, the only good ones are the ones from a BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, Land/Range Rover, or Audi
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I hate those lights, and it seems that they are always aimed right at your face, not the road. I just pull back on my light lever and blind them back, which is pretty bad because I have the halogen bulbs in my headlights and fog lights.
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If you've ever be driving towards that comes with HID's from the factory and they hit a bump and the light shines up into your face.... well thats what it is like permenantly if you put them in our stock housing.
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I hate those lights, and it seems that they are always aimed right at your face, not the road. I just pull back on my light lever and blind them back, which is pretty bad because I have the halogen bulbs in my headlights and fog lights.
good, thats the right thing to do, untill they pull back on theirs, and unfortunately have the extremely illegal 14k lights that are purple, and u drive off the road (always been scared of that happening to me)
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Originally Posted by 06f150lariat
good, thats the right thing to do, untill they pull back on theirs, and unfortunately have the extremely illegal 14k lights that are purple, and u drive off the road (always been scared of that happening to me)
I'm not sure if you know this but the lower the k such as a 6k HID aremuch brighter then the blue'r tinted 14K lights.
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as far as what i have heard from the shops around here, they say that the higher, the more illegal, and the lower, the less (such as the real factory hid, like mecedes and such, they are supposedly 4300K) and the reason when they hit a bump i noticed in my moms benz, is that they have a self leveling unit, so they begin to bounce around...which can be bothersome to the other people driving towards you....but you may be right about the K, and i aswell as the people in the shops around here can be wrong, who knows.....all we know is that they are annoying as hell
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I dont care what they are, they are annoying as hell, lol

I just pitty the person who thinks its "funny" the leave their brights on once I get my light bar.
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Originally Posted by pro-x-144
I dont care what they are, they are annoying as hell, lol

I just pitty the person who thinks its "funny" the leave their brights on once I get my light bar.
if it werent for not wanting to put anything on my roof, i would def. get those...also, if your behind someone, they may think that it is a cop, has happened to me before
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Ure right, i believe, about the higher the K and them being illegal where the lower K lights are legal. But as far as birghtness the lower K are brighter then the higher k lights. The lower K such as 6000k are fairly blue and BRIGHT where the 2000K lights are very blue in color and not nearly as bright. Once you get to around 4000K the light turns to YELLOW, its wierd but true.


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