HID conversion kits

NotMatt · Jan 14, 2010

WHITE TRASH said:
You are missing the point.. A factory housing can not be aimed correctly with an HID. The light is still going all over the place when you put that much output into the stock housing. You can aim them down but that only helps so much. :;

WT is right... ever notice how a car with factory HID's has a very sharp cutoff if you park the car against a wall and turn the lights on? That's so the HID's don't blind oncoming cars. You don't get that cutoff with standard light housings designed for regular bulbs, so no matter how you aim them, you're still blinding oncoming cars.

And the "HID" bulbs you get at autozone or wherever are just regular bulbs (maybe higher wattage) with a blue tint on them.

bigiron · Jan 14, 2010

I run AMI housings and lights in the big green rig and they work great....night and day difference

Totalled · Jan 14, 2010

NotMatt said:
WT is right... ever notice how a car with factory HID's has a very sharp cutoff if you park the car against a wall and turn the lights on? That's so the HID's don't blind oncoming cars. You don't get that cutoff with standard light housings designed for regular bulbs, so no matter how you aim them, you're still blinding oncoming cars.

And the "HID" bulbs you get at autozone or wherever are just regular bulbs (maybe higher wattage) with a blue tint on them.

HIDs blind me whether they are in a factory application or not..

CHOP SHOP · Jan 14, 2010

NotMatt said:
And the "HID" bulbs you get at autozone or wherever are just regular bulbs (maybe higher wattage) with a blue tint on them.

If it doesnt have a seperate ballast its not an HID.. Hid is for high intensity discharge. Its a light that has gas that is excited by high voltage. A gas is sealed in a glass capsule and has an terminal in each end of the glass capsule. When high voltage is introduced to the gas it excites it and it glows.

A replacement bulb with factory wiring is not a true HID and most likely is just a higher wattage bulb with blue tint. The higher wattage lights tend to melt factory housing too.