well after wasting 3 hrs trying to put in a heavy duty wiring harness and having it blow out 3 of my bulbs and pissing me off.. i have decided to save up for a HID kit... does anyone have any suggestions on any dual BEAM his kits that are going for a pretty decent price??? thanks

 

Last year I bought a Hella/Osram 7000K Dual Beam HID Conversion Kit. I couldn't be happier with it. I started off buying those Hyperwhite bulbs about 3 years ago. Back then, they were $15 each! Now you can get a pair for less than $10. I went through a pair of those bulbs every six months and even had a heavy duty wiring harness for it. I figures I would just suck it up and buy and HID kit. It took about 1 hour to install. But I never did get the high beams to work correctly. But that's OK since you never even have to use the high beams once you get an HID kit. Oh yeah, I bought my HID set for $350. You could check eBay, or go to http://www.hids4less.com or just do a search for them.

 

the reasoni want the duals is so that when i go to inspection, i don't fail for no high beams... where did u get urs cause that site has the 6000k for 750$...

 

go to groupbuys.com there are always group buys there for 350 on the hanabi hid kits ......but be careful i heard that in jersey they might fail you if the car did not come with hid's as oem equipment. As far has hid high beams ......no one puts hid's in the high beams because when u need the high beams halogens come on instantly where as the hid's have a slight warm up time for them to come to full brightness .... they do have bi-xenon kits ....but you will have to retrofit the housing for it and those kits cost an arm and a leg right now and only come on expensive euro cars.

 

good luck with the dual beam search, Ive been told that with most of the 300-500 dollar kits, its a cob-job as far as the highs go. Your best bet is not to worry about it that much, and find a way around that inspection thing... find someone who'll pass you for a couple extra bucks or something.. ask around, there's someone like that in every town

 

there easy enough to switch back to halogen for inspection anyway....takes about an hour

 

An hour? Just unplug the HID plug from the H4 plug, swap the bulbs, and plug them in. 5-10 minutes at most.

 

i would ahve passed with hids if i had a high beam, the guy even said they are legal

 

this is only if you have a plug n play kit that is easily accessable ... but most people try and mount it somewhere it will be hard to steal. second arent you gonna remove the blubs and put them away somewhere safe ? Then after that wouldnt you cover the ignitor so that the contacts will be covered from the elements even thou its only gonna be for a few hours? and i dont know about ur car but mine has a engine cover and there are a few plugs that have to be removed to even get to the housing ?
Even if this set up was on my old legend it would still take a good half an hour.

 

Like where? The HID's have to be close to the headlight anyway. They have to bust your hood to get them no matter where you put them and there really isn't any safe spot in the engine bay.

So I guess I have to make the long walk all the way into my house and put them down somewhere. :p

The elements? Well, if it is a nice day out and not raining or snowing I dont see what the big deal is. Most HID kits are water resistant anyway. And how far can the inspection shop be anyway?

I thought this was a first gen TL related topic? Your mixing apples and oranges dude.

 

BTW, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, I just don't agree with what you're saying. On other cars it might take you a while to take out the bulbs, but on a TL it won't and thats what the question was in reference to. Our headlights are easily accessible.

 

yeah , i could put my halogens back, in 5 minutes tops, i guess it might be me but its really easy to work on the first gen TL's