just picked up a hid kit

[02Alero]

i just picked up an hid kit for my car its an 8000k i got it on ebay for $60
heres a pic of the kit the light pics i will have up later

[itsbmw]

nice. I wanna see them when they're done:cool:

[heineck]

sick post pics soon

[02Alero]

heres some of the pic a before and now sorry for the low quality these were from my phone

[Nate's Alero]

heres some of the pic a before and now sorry for the low quality these were from my phone

woah! brighttttt

[YALEROYNOT]

I have heard, people have problems with the ballests burn out on ebay kits. I got mine thru ddm tuning, it has a life time warenty and it was $100 shipped.

looks good tho, make sure you adjust the light so you dont blind people (i got flashed all the time befor I adjusted mine)

[NickAlero2000]

looking good! you have any head on pics looking at the car?

[Beholder88]

I have heard, people have problems with the ballests burn out on ebay kits. I got mine thru ddm tuning, it has a life time warenty and it was $100 shipped.

looks good tho, make sure you adjust the light so you dont blind people (i got flashed all the time befor I adjusted mine)

Don't you just have to angle them down a little more than usual?

[fielder87]

hey i baught some brite white HID bulbs thinks 7500k, it says they just plug and play,they dont come with the ballests is that a problem?

[Beholder88]

If they are true HID then they should come with ballasts. They might just be ultra whites or something.

[fielder87]

i think they might only be ultra whites,then never said nothing bout ballests. Are ultra white still good,or atleast better than stock...they were cheap!lol.

[cherrington17]

yeah... no ballasts = not HID

[02Alero]

I have heard, people have problems with the ballests burn out on ebay kits. I got mine thru ddm tuning, it has a life time warenty and it was $100 shipped.

looks good tho, make sure you adjust the light so you dont blind people (i got flashed all the time befor I adjusted mine)

how do i adjust them and these actually came with a 2 year ballast and bulb warenty. and ill post some head on pics tommarow

[troyertrain]

i think they might only be ultra whites,then never said nothing bout ballests. Are ultra white still good,or atleast better than stock...they were cheap!lol.

do yourself a favor and upgrade the stock headlight harnesses, as they will burn out and melt if your using a bulb higher than 55W...

[Cliff8928]

Thank goodness (most) HIDs are 35w.

[mfuller]

Doesn't Scot have 55W HIDs? I seem to recall from ASS2008 that they were crazy bright.....

[dhurst765]

do u need to modify ur housings or just install the ballasts and the bulbs?

[cherrington17]

just install ballasts and bulbs.

if you want TRUE HIDs, you need projectors. which yes... require modification. Most people run w/o though.

[dhurst765]

i thought that i had read somewhere that it would melt the housing. also where would u put the ballasts and how big r they

[cherrington17]

not very big, and wherever you want.

and they aren't hotter, they use the same amount of power as the stock bulbs. they just use the power more efficiently. The pseudo HIDs, the bulbs you can buy that claim they are HID but don't have a ballast, if the wattage is too high, it'll melt the harness and/or housing.

[Cliff8928]

if you want TRUE HIDs, you need projectors.

Make sure you tell the engineers at Honda, Nissan and Mercedes that too... :ninja:

[cherrington17]

Make sure you tell the engineers at Honda, Nissan and Mercedes that too... :ninja:


???


do they make stock HID setups w/o projectors?

[AJules]

yes..

[cherrington17]

thought that was made illegal?

HIDs w/o projectors cannot be sold... but if a projector is present then its legal.. at least.. thats what i took from that whole mess that occurred.

how can manufacturers get away with it, but civilians can't?

[Cliff8928]

Projectors and HIDs have no direct correlation each other.

The legality of it is what is certified by the DOT. Using any light source not certified by the DOT is illegal. Not because it will cause bad results, just because it's not certified and *may* have bad results.

Even if you have a vehicle with stock projectors but with a halogen light source, installing a HID kit is illegal. The lamp type is required to be marked on the headlamp assembly itself.

[Spilner521]

thought that was made illegal?

HIDs w/o projectors cannot be sold... but if a projector is present then its legal.. at least.. thats what i took from that whole mess that occurred.

how can manufacturers get away with it, but civilians can't?
HIDs in halogen housings are illegal. It's perfectly legal for manufacturers to put HIDs in reflector housings because those housings were designed to handle the amount of light HIDs put out.

When you take a housing designed for a halogen bulb and then throw in a HID bulb that's 3 times as bright, that's where you start having problems with glare, hot spots, etc.

Same thing with projectors, as Cliff mentioned. Projectors designed for halogens aren't meant to deal with the light output of HIDs.

I don't know if you've ever seen the different style bulbs for different housings. The D2S HID bulb is for a projector housing, since the projector has it's own cut-off shield inside of it.

The D2R bulb is for a reflector housing, and has a small cut-off shield on the bulb itself.


D2S_________________________D2R
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[falloutboy]

Got to ask a stupid noob question to get the terms right.

With PROJECTOR you mean these headlights that look like a fish eye?
In comparison to OUR stock REFLECTOR headlights.

AND I have to use D2R bulbs to keep my stock cut-off line of light. Right?

This is quit important for me cause I have to pass german TÜV.
And HID's aren't allowed as long as you don't have Automatic alignment and washing unit in front.

But don't care, Alero's are so rare that it just have to look stock so nobody gets suspicious.

I'm a trained car mechanic so I know to align them properly so that I'm not a hazard to others.

So pleeeeeeaaaase help me :)

Yours
Julian

[jayson_waltz]

1st Q- yes you are right
2nd q- apparently from the post above yes. but i seem to have the D2S style bulb and have yet to get flashed by anybody surprisingly.

btw, i hid my ballasts (i have 4 lol) behind the front bumper piece where the logo is. When you take out the headlights there is plenty of room to get the stuff back in there and stuck down and hide wires. opening my hood i look 100% stock.