QuentinRice

Hey, I am looking to get an HID kit for my low beams because the Silverstars continue to go out.

I found them at www.xenoneyes.com for 129.99 with shipping.
And have 2 coupon codes to share:
xmas416 gives you free 3 year warranty, but if you dont add the warranty to your shopping cart you just get $34 off.
ntpog gives you free shipping.. kinda pointless when you can get 34 dollars off.

BUT I cant decide what temp to get. I really like the blue look but not sure if I want it as blue as the 12000k. Any suggestions

purple3.0haze

6000k

purple3.0haze

no wait sorry 5000K

f22vtec

theres a site with hids for like 55 bucks with life time warranty i gotta find it again ill send it to u if u want. idk how good they are i just ordered a pair im waiting for them to come in.

dylan684

lol howd you guys not catch on..brand new member, no mention of a cl, just promoting his website, even giving us the coupon codes for enticement

QuentinRice

I already ordered the kit from that site.. but if I end up wanting to change the temp can I just buy new bulbs or is a whole new kit needed???

QuentinRice

HAHA WOW are you serious. I fould those codes on google, thought id be nice and give them to all.

I have a black 98 cl

asianspec

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i dunno what to believe anymore.

dylan684

lol nvm...bastard that was your warm welcome

mitch14

you should be able to just buy new bulbs and the wires that connect to the ballast. what K did you get?

usually spam ppl aren't that smart, they just whore there website as many times as they can, but maybe they are getting smarter and we're all screwed

in either sense the hid topic has been discussed already, theres a mulitple page thread here somewhere with info and pics

i myself purchased a 4300k kit as they have the most light output and are basically white, so no chance of getting a ticket for them

EDIT: here you go
https://acurazine.com/forums/1g-cl-1997-1999-56/those-you-h-i-d-s-688952/

GhettoNinja06

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I am looking for an HID kit for my projos as well...It is strange that there are no pics of the kit on this site....hmmm...

mitch14

^ya that is weird, but they mostly all look the same anyways, the kit that i bought i'm pretty sure they stole the instructions from another company and tried to erase the copywright watermark from it
btw what are you doing for the HID kit, don't you need the d2 bulb type or whatever for the projectors? then you would need to do some custom wiring to get that to work? atleast that's what i thought you had to do... but i'm prolly wrong
oh and start a thread about your projectors already, quit putting all those pics in the project thread

QuentinRice

I got 8000k, but im not sure they're exactly what im looking for.

klepto

id say go 4300k, anything less and you're diminishing output. 6000k at most.

GhettoNinja06

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Yeah, I need the D2S bulbs and they sell plug-and-play D2S HID kits. If you click "Products" on that page, you will see the D2S at the botom of the drop menu under "Bulb Type". There is no way I would ever purchace anything that has no pictures of the said product. If you are seriously poor and can't afford the Kaizen HID kit, then I'd say go here: http://www.vvme.com/product/detail-20023.html

ism. I'm going 6000k.

AznX TL

go with DDM tuning hid kits.

97BlackAckCL

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a2ndragoon89

dudeee get 8k just a little bit blue. Sometimes it depends too, my friend got 8k but his are more white than mine. Mine are just a little blue at 8k

Cheehos

Okay everybody, it's time for me to make a confession...
I bought these cheap-o bulbs about two months ago to see just how ghetto they were. For around $66 shipping from Hong Kong (took little over a week) I got a pair of 6000K HIDs. Long story short - - They work very well. They're very bright, and I haven't had a single problem with them over the past two months. My brother ordered a pair of HIDs from another site for his Mk3 GTi at around twice the price and they are just as bright.

The ballasts may make Rosie O'Donnell look like Jessica Alba, but the cheap bastards work.



For now.

duluoz

and

i had 35w 4300 ddms in my car for over a year before just recently going retro, worked very well for a kit; i'm actually still running their ballasts with the new mdx optics .
the 4300 is a bit yellow at first, but matures to a perfect hid white after so many hours. 5 or 6K is just sacrificing output for some blue, imho.
i just put 55w 4300k ddm in my girl's car, and they are just insane for a kit.
ddm prices are rockbottom as well; their sale is suspended right now, but supposed to resume soon. warranty is for life, but i hear it is a hassle with shipping and all. ddm has very cheap & decent quality replacement parts to take advantage of, though.
best luck.

vietfobulust

I don't recommend you buy the kit from www.vvme.com because you could run into a lot of problems if you are unlucky. I've bought 4 kits from there and they will not send you a new pair if it arrived at your door defective. One kit had a defective ballast, one kit they mixed up the color temps, and I had the last one held up at US Customs. They refuse to send you a new one unless you ship your original ones back to them which could be very costly to Hong Kong, China. You might as well order a new one for $66.

Edit: I think 5000k is the perfect color, pure white baby!

mitch14

^ i ordered from them a couple months ago, and they turned out great, arrived in two weeks and i have no problems with them.
also my buddy ordered a kit from them a month before me, and he had the same experience as me. maybe you're just unlucky

oh and i'm pretty sure 4300k is pure white

Avendesora

I think Im just going to get those NightHawk bulbs--theyre bright as all hell, almost white, and only like 30 bucks at the performance shop up the road.

mitch14

^trust me, get some HIDs, they are so much brighter than everything else, and those ddm tuning ones look like a good deal, so if mine ever break that's prolly what i'm gonna go for

GhettoNinja06

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http://www.ddmtuning.com/ddmhidkits.html

Holy crap, they have a 55W balast option with 5000 lumens!!
for $52.50!!!

btw, I saw this RSX the other day with looked like 6000k bulbs but were slightly green in color insted of slightly blue...it was pretty sweet and different. What color temp is this?

AznX TL

go for the slim ballasts.
http://www.ddmtuning.com/hidkihidbuhi.html

GhettoNinja06

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^^Even better!

duluoz

they're legit (like i said, i just put 55w ddms from them in my girl's car like 2 weeks ago -- which are siiick btw), but like the site says, their sale prices aren't in effect right now (when you check out, they ask to adjust the price like +5 or 10 bucks or whatever) and also shipping is slow -- i'm still waiting for tracking on an apexcone kit i ordered right before x-mas; just a heads up.

97BlackAckCL

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HID's or bust

97Acura3.0CL

HID's just a little info.......4300 will give you the most output and lumens, this is what you are looking for to get the most visibility, once you go up loike 5k or 6k you will lose your output a lot.

again, HID's are not enough, get projectors! 10x's the visibility and the output will be 10x's more

see here........my color too, I have color modded the shield to get more blues



I am working on this setup for my 2004 yukon for my wife. I want her to drive safely at night and I am using RX330 projectors with a custom shield shaved down to get teals, purples and blues!!! in a Denali housing.

CLherman

i just ordered a 6000k HID kit from this one site in Hong Kong. it looked pretty legit, and for $99.99 and free shipping it was a pretty good deal. i just hope that it actually comes. if it does il let you all know so that you can buy em too.

heres the site
http://hidstores.com/

mitch14

^ i woulda got it from that ddm site for that price, cuz then you coulda got slim ballasts instead. and it looks like the same kits that vvme.com sells for $41 plus twenty-something for shipping. but to each their own, and the important thing is that you are getting HID's and not silverstars or crap like that

GhettoNinja06

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^Silverstars are GREAT for people that arn't going willing to spend alot of money on HIDs. I got Silverstar Ultras for my first mod the month I got the car and they have lasted since last christmas. I do ALOT of night time driving too. (another reason I decited to retrofit) Compared to stock, those Silverstars are a great way to brighten the road with brighter and cleaner light than the OEM soft white.

QuentinRice

Ok, well I am returning my HID's from xenoneyes.com because I found a 55w kit from Sharphid.

The kit I am getting is a Apexcone 55w kit, but I have seen a few people dogging on Apexcone's reliability.

Someone help me IDK what to do?!?! Should I keep the 35w 8000k kit from xenoneyes.com, or keep the Apexcone 55w 8000k kit?

duluoz

You gotta remember, ultimately you get what you pay for. Apexcone + DDM are also chinese kits, if I'm not mistaken. FWIW, I've seen far more people get their money's worth from them than not. My personal experience is they're pretty solid; I bought mine back when they were like $110, and I still feel like I got my $ out of them.

And IMHO, if one is going to spend =>$200 on a more expensive kit, you're much better off sourcing together a proper OEM retro, and getting 10x better results for relatively a few more dollars.

97Acura3.0CL

also you would be better off with a OEM kit off ebay, search for Denso ballast or Matsushita ballast. I have a Mats Gen 3 ballasts and I like them since I will install behind the headlight in my yukon but I will be buying some Denso slim ballasts since I will put them up under the light to protect from rain and elements.

just FYI

you get what you pay for, 50 more bucks and you can get new OEM bulbs and good ballasts.

scholastic

i have run VVME hids for almost 2 years without so much problems...my wife and my father's car also run VVME hid kits .... i love my vvme hid kit....inexpensive , $60 shipped to my door in 3 days.

that guy must be the unlucky dog...

scholastic

u r totally right... no need to buy that kind of Philips oem hid kit with 200 or 300 bucks...

vvme hid also work stably with warranty but cheap stuff..if you are the lucky one and get your vvme hid kit installed correctly

on1wheel01

Wow you brought up a thread nearly 2 years old. There are many kits that are cheap and also quality. I get my kits from my supplier for under 40 shipped. But of coarse then I mark up prices and resell. I only say my prices as I dont sell to ppl here.