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

[dizzybridge]

alright man you know it all...just keep those factory halogens since HID's won't work properly...and i'll keep my HID's and laugh...thanks to people like you everybody gets scared of doin simple stuff to their cars.

[elvasoshexai]

alright man you know it all...just keep those factory halogens since HID's won't work properly...and i'll keep my HID's and laugh...thanks to people like you everybody gets scared of doin simple stuff to their cars.
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is this directed at me?

no i don't know it all. that's why i was asking questions.

when did i ever say factory halogens are better?

in fact. i am very interested in getting HIDs too. just that i don't want to do it the wrong way.

(btw, i checked out ur cardomain site... no photos of your HID beam output? was hoping to see some as i'm really interested seeing how they look with celica projectors/reflectors)

I know that HIDs can go in both projectors and reflectors. but there are HD projectors, HID reflectors, then there are halogen projectors and halogen reflectors. but they don't all work WELL with HIDs. sure you can install HIDs into anything but the results MAY be bad... i don't know. maybe the halogen reflectors and projectors made for a celica won't cause glare as much as other cars. i have no idea

stock halogens will most likely give glare too. however HIDs are about.. i dunno.. 20x brighter? which is why if it scatters it blinds people and is a bigger problem becaue of being SO bright. if you don't have clear lenses it will scatter too.

a while back a lot of PnP HID kits were made illegal because there were a lot of cheap and imitation parts being sold as well as people were installing them wrong and thus it melted harnesses and blinded people. here's a list of a few of them:
RM Racing
Astex USA
Kmax International
FET, Inc.
J. Liu LLC
Gourmet Garage
JC Whitney
Lighting Research
SPW Industries, Inc.
Pacific Micro-lite
McCulloch Motors, Inc.
Santeca Electronics
JF Manufacturing
Streetglow, Inc.
Outback Products, Inc.
Nu Performance
GR Motorsports, Inc.
Global Premier
New Clor
Importhookup.com
DG International
MTC Lighting
Umnitza
Liteglow
American Products Company

when you aim your headlights straight against a wall a 20 meters away is the light scattered all over the place? if yes, chances are that it will give oncoming drivers glare.

**i'm really interested in how the beam pattern looks like for those of you with HIDs... could some people post some good ones? (please indicate if you have stock housings or the st205 projector housings**

i'm not saying HIDs are bad. as long as their done right it's fine. as i said before i'm interested in them too. i just want to know how they look like on a celica before making a decision if people post pictures of their beam pattern and it looks good i'll 99% get HIDs. if they look really bad. i'll have to decide what to do.

here are some examples of kits that caused glare in stock houseings:



here are how they SHOULD look like:



here's another comparison pic:


i've seen proper retrofitting done forconsiderably less than 1000... (like 300-700 depending on quality of equipment/install etc) so this should be doable on a celica as well

i'm not trying to make people scared of doing this stuff... i just hope people are doing it right and have courtesy for others on the road

(o, and incase anyone was wondering.. those aren't pics i made... got them off of hidplanet)

This post has been edited by elvasoshexai: Oct 20, 2005 - 8:07 PM