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[cavaliers60]

gotcha. looks nice man.

[YALEROYNOT]

Originally Posted by Spilner521

That bluish color from far away also has a lot to do with the cut off shield in projectors. If you notice in this picture, right at the cut off line there is a strip of blue. A combination of the projector lens and the shape of the cut off shield bends the light towards the blue end of the spectrum and you get that nice blue cut off. That's why you get a blue flicker from a HID projector equipped vehicle coming towards you.



Yes, HID's also run cooler than regular halogen bulbs and use less power, drawing only 35 watts as apposed to 55 watts of a standard halogen low beam bulb.

what bulbs are they? highs ? lows ? and fogs?

[Spilner521]

Originally Posted by YALEROYNOT

what bulbs are they? highs ? lows ? and fogs?

When cars come from the factory, HID's are only on the low beams.

Some cars have Bi-Xenon projectors, which means they are low and high beam from the same projector. What happens is when you hit the high beam switch, an actuator pulls the cutoff shield down and away so there's no cut off line, which makes it a HID high beam.

Also, a few cars, like the Lexus, have 3000K yellow HID capsules in the fog lights.

That beam pattern pictured above is of one single low beam projector.