HID (done right) conversions

[Dogmeat]

Ok, so I'm looking at doing an HID conversion on the headlights on my new truck, but the last thing I want to do is blind oncoming traffic. I cannot ****ing stand when *******s have lights so bright it blinds me. It makes me want to murder their entire families while they watch. Seriously. I think they deserve to die. Painfully.

So, I'm looking at these:

http://www.protuninglab.com/09doramduhal3.html

in 6000K trim. I don't want something super-blue because blue light does not show up against white snow very well, I'd actually prefer something white-to-yellow. I'm sort of contemplating going 4300K because the whole reason I'm doing this is to have better visibility driving on 2-lane roads in the winter.

With that said: The price on those lights is right, but are those just cheap ****? They say they're %100 street legal, but again, I don't want to blind the **** out of folks.

Anybody done anything like this? These are the 35W ones not 55W .... So I'm assuming these really would be comparable to say the HID's that come OEM on some of the higher end SUV's?

 

[AndrettiDog]

I think you are on the right track to find a projector style headlamp. But full on headlamps are expensive. Check out THIS link. I know it is for a GM and you apparently have a Dodge, but the idea is that you might be able to modify your headlamp. I'd check out a Dodge 4M. This will save hundreds of dollars! 6K worked well for me, now I just need to modify my stock headlamp with projector style lamps.

HERE is the link to the projector site.

 

[Dogmeat]

I think you are on the right track to find a projector style headlamp. But full on headlamps are expensive. Check out THIS link. I know it is for a GM and you apparently have a Dodge, but the idea is that you might be able to modify your headlamp. I'd check out a Dodge 4M. This will save hundreds of dollars! 6K worked well for me, now I just need to modify my stock headlamp with projector style lamps.

HERE is the link to the projector site.

Based on the research I've done on this, you're supposed to have a lens that is specifically engineered to reduce glare in a true street-legal HID setup.

Where I really want to go with this is finding headlamp assemblies that are pre-assembled with low-beam 35w and high beam 55w HID lights already installed.

I would like to do a 4300K setup as that appears to be more the most "normal" color of light and most luminous.....but, I am adamant about it not being so blinding to oncoming traffic I have a head-on collision or something.

I'll keep researching it but if I can't come up with something "right" I won't spend the money on it at all.

 

[MORSNO]

Good-on you Dogmeat! Finally someone doing their research and trying to do it right or not at all. You are also on the right path for light color, all BMW's, Mercedes, Audi's, etc are in the lower Kalvin ranges than the cheap blue lights. All of those cheap HID kits are technically Illegal because they are not being installed in a DOT approved lens for a HID light. The factory lens is DOT approved for a factory Halogen lamp. The halogen lens does not focus the beam, it spreads it, that is why they GLARE in everyone's eyes (yes, even when they try to lower the beam).

I have factory Bi-Xenon lights lights in my Volvo, they are a precisely focused beam that is low and wide. No matter where you are in front of the car, there is no glare only precise lighting that stays low on the road. There is a reason real Bi-Xenon's cost $1,600.

 

[milehighassassin]

4300k will give you the most usable light. 4300k is really close to what the sun puts out. 6000k is brighter but the human eye cannot use that light so it is not usable. I think a black light is like 15000k. So it is very bright but not usable.

Projector lights work much better with HIDs but you can still use a halogen housing. Just keep the aim down.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Dogmeat]

There is a reason real Bi-Xenon's cost $1,600.

If there was a company that made a street-legal true-HID headlamp assembly that I could swap in place of the factory assembly that had true HID low and hi beams, I'd have no problem forking over some $$$ for it.

Hell by the time you buy a set of PIAA ion crystal fogs and driving lights you're into it for at least half that much and they still won't be as good.

 

[MORSNO]

If there was a company that made a street-legal true-HID headlamp assembly that I could swap in place of the factory assembly that had true HID low and hi beams, I'd have no problem forking over some $$$ for it.

Hell by the time you buy a set of PIAA ion crystal fogs and driving lights you're into it for at least half that much and they still won't be as good.

I hear ya, lighting is a safety issue, and upgrading your lights is a good thing. I just wish people would stop using those cheap HID and kits that cause a safety issue for every other car on the road (they blind you in the rear view mirror and head on).

 

[WyoUltra]

Just to possibly save your wallet a little $$$, you might check Ebay and Amazon, they have HID's/Halo's for fairly good prices.

 

[Dogmeat]

Found a company specializes in Dodges ...

http://retro-solutions.net/index.php

I'm gonna call them next week and and see what they can do for me.

 

[AndrettiDog]

There is a reason real Bi-Xenon's cost $1,600.

And that's why so many people have the cheap kits. I'm not saying it is right. I think the compromise is what I posted earlier. The lens might not be specific to HID's but at least the projector lamp is and keeps the light on the road and not in drivers eyes.