HID Bulbs Options

[Drew-887]

Do you guys think that these bulbs will work on my car?Yes I know that there cheap HID's but i want them anyway.

Here's the link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/8000K-JAPAN...000919735QQrdZ1

[Galcobar]

Hmph, take a reflector housing designed for a filament bulb and install a gas discharge bulb....think the beam pattern's going to be more than a bit off. Mind you, with the lousy DOT pattern the U.S. demands, who could tell?

That assumes, of course, you've altered the wiring harness enough to convert standard car power to the much different voltages required by HID...

[dizzybridge]

Hmph, take a reflector housing designed for a filament bulb and install a gas discharge bulb....think the beam pattern's going to be more than a bit off. Mind you, with the lousy DOT pattern the U.S. demands, who could tell?

That assumes, of course, you've altered the wiring harness enough to convert standard car power to the much different voltages required by HID...
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the beam pattern is the same becuase the bulbs are the same size...9006...NO ADJUSTMENT of any kind is needed...but hey i don't care i like being the only one with HID's since everybody else thinks it's such a hard thing to do...just tryin to tell you it's nearly plug and play and since you don't have em in your car how would you know? another thing...HID's use 35watts compared to the 60-65 your factorys or aftermarkets use and actually burn cooler...again there is no danger whatsoever to your housings or harnesses....i've had em for over a year...a friend has em in his supra...another in his mr2...no adjustments...sorry for sounding like a dick, but it's really not that complex of a thing and people spread alot of fiction about em.

[Galcobar]

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There is no possible way for a halogen bulb with a tungsten filament, and a xenon bulb using arc discharges between two electrodes to have the same pattern of light output.

Halogen is not the same as HID. The base may be the same, but the bulb itself is not. Put it this way, a compact fluorescent can fit into the same base as an incasdescent, but the shape of the light it produces is different. Car lights, being much more carefully shaped, are even more subject to this reality.

Car headlight reflectors are sensitive enough that even a cheap bulb has a noticably different beam pattern than a high-quality bulb -- filament geometry is that important. You're applying a bulb that has no filament at all into a housing designed to shape the light coming out of a burning filament.

Admittedly, the American DOT standard is such a lousy beam pattern that you might not notice it, but other drivers will.

This post has been edited by Galcobar: Oct 20, 2005 - 3:42 PM