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Old Sep 3, 2012 | 09:09 PM
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does anybody have any real life pictures of their hids or compairisions to factory. i have been thinkin about a couple extra lights on mine just not sure wat i want yet.
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Old Sep 3, 2012 | 09:12 PM
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I don't have any pics. But, if you do a quick search on here you will find a lot of post on the HID lights that may help you out.
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Old Sep 3, 2012 | 09:34 PM
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i did search but nothin that i was lookin for came up. do you have them? i have them on my four wheeler but it seems like they cast alot of shadows and i do alot of night ridin
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 12:35 AM
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I have 8k HIDS on my jeep and they are bright as hell. They make a huge difference on the trail and road compared to stock. I bought projector beam headlights off eBay for $35 and went to ddmautotuning.com and bought there hid kit for $85
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 12:53 AM
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Left to right:left stock low then my hids on low in middle then stock highs with kc's on the right
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 10:15 AM
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wiggles looks like you throw more light on the road than the others which is good wat housings are you runnin and wat temp bulbs? extreme have you had luck with your housings? thanks guys
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 10:23 AM
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I can tell you one thing.

8k HID's in a set of AutoPal housings SUCK! They're bright but man they have a horrible pattern.

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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 10:37 AM
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Any color other than 4300k is less light.
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by worknprogress90
wiggles looks like you throw more light on the road than the others which is good wat housings are you runnin and wat temp bulbs? extreme have you had luck with your housings? thanks guys
They are some cheap eBay housings and some cheap hid bulbs. Total cost I'm about $75 deep and I think they are like 6k
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by PensacolaRebel
Any color other than 4300k is less light.


The 8k bulbs that I have in my Jeep at the moment are obviously brighter than stock bulbs. I hate them and they'll be coming about but it's not because they aren't bright enough...
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 04:35 PM
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Stock bulb/housings on left(2gn) 5500k-6000k in projectors on right. I took this from three foot off the ground. My drivers headlights is aimed lower.
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 05:19 PM
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pensacola they are bright aint they. lowrange wat housing do you have projectors or regular
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 10:36 PM
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They're low projectors on my Neon. I've been looking into some for the Cherokee. I was thinking HID low beam projectors and replacing the fogs with 100 watt halogen pencil beams.

If I was to spent some serious money, I would buy a retrofit kit and have high & low beam HID projectors.

Has anyone seen the conversions with projectors up close?
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 10:41 PM
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35 watt hids

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