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Old 10-27-2006, 12:23 AM
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So i'm gonna convert my high beams to foglights, and wire it so i can turn them on by themselves. what would be a good bulb to use for this? nokya 9005? or would that be too bright

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oh yeah, i put my TEIN HAs on tonight
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Old 10-27-2006, 09:58 AM
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I got the Nokya 2500K 55W for my fog light. Das JDM yellow yo!
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Old 10-27-2006, 01:21 PM
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me too. so how are you gonna go about aiming them down? youre going to be blinding everyone during the night
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^ yup. the high beam housing wont go down too much, and even if it is all the way down...its still kinda blind people.....but who care right...as long as u're happy.
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Originally Posted by ib_jimmy
^ yup. the high beam housing wont go down too much, and even if it is all the way down...its still kinda blind people.....but who care right...as long as u're happy.
COPS care!!! haha. only cause there fucking assholes and they want to rain on everyones shit!!

Def. go with the nokya yellow 9005.

Or.....you can change out the 9005 headlight sockets to 9006, and get 9006 bulbs that way there not as bright.

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the tips of 9006's are coated with something that kinda blocks the light shine out, maybe you could try coating the tips of your 9005s?
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i have a control module which makes my high beams into DTRL.



edit: i just havent installed it yet...dont know how...
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go with the nokya 9005 hyper yellow
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1 more thing.... Where did you get that DRL module from?
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1 more thing.... Where did you get that DRL module from?

its a police module for their cars.
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Sneaky Sneaky..... Where may someone come accross this so called DRL module? wink wink.
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DRL's are stock in almost every canadian car.
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DRL's are stock in almost every canadian car.

yup...dam canadians! lol
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