HID bulbs life, cost to replace?

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Old Apr 2, 2003 | 09:39 PM
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HID bulbs life, cost to replace?

How long should the HID bulbs last. I assume when they go out it's an owner's cost to replace them? What are we looking at as far as time frame and cost??
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Old Apr 2, 2003 | 10:16 PM
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Roughly 3,000 hours or so. And depends on what kind of HID you want if you want to upgrade to 6000k, it's about $240 or so for two bulbs.
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Old Apr 2, 2003 | 11:02 PM
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I thought it was longer then that (at least for the OEM).

Somewhere I remember someone calculating that if you always drove with your lights on the HIDs would last about 10 years.
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Old Apr 3, 2003 | 11:29 AM
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3,000 hours at 60mph would be 180,000 miles. It sounds like ten years is reasonable. Especially if you only turn them on at night.
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