I just replaced my HID bulbs about three months ago maybe less, and one of them just went out again. So could it be an electrical issue, the headlight assembly, or just the bulb?

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Acura RL 2005: 12" dual subwoofers

 

What kind of bulbs did you use? To test the failure, take the good bulb to the other side. If it works, the other bulb is bad. If it doesn't, your ballast is probably bad.

 

HID Xenon D2S 20000k bulbs

 

This!

Do you even get any usable light from 20,000k bulbs?

 

yes it gives off a light blue type of color.

 

20,000k...

If your description is accurate to the product you bought, I am willing to bet just about anything your bulbs are worthless.

 

this cant be real life?

 

A 20,000K bulb would be the lighting equivalent of a sub-sonic dog whistle. Your brightness rating would be LESS than those incredibly stupid yellow bulbs that riceboyz stick in their Civics. Go 4300, 5000or 6000K or go home before you kill yourself or someone else.

 

say goodbye to your projector bowls i bet those things are so pitted and flaking now from all the UV from the bulb

 

Hey RL_Life 05,

Did your headlamp issue get resolved..?

So, kelvin rating are the OEM bulbs?

Here's my issue - my passenger side bulb turned pink about a 2 weeks ago. After some reading on this forum, I took the car in for a service at Courtesy Acura and asked them to replace the bulbs on both driver side and passenger side. After the service, the one on the driver side looked normal (ie - white, with a bluish tint) whereas the one on the passenger side looked almost like halogen.

I took the car back in, and now they've replace the one on the driver side to look halogenish too. :s

I am unable to support my argument because the SA thinks it looks white, but I can bet it doesn't. So, to have a technical argument, I probably need to talk about KELVIN ratings..

 

OEM HID bulbs are 4100 or 4300K. I don't remember which exactly. Have the SA pull another Acura up next to yours and compare the light against a wall. That will tell you right away.

Also, I hate to tell you, but if you paid for dealer bulbs, you got up-charged at least 100%. You could have bought the best bulb on the market for cheaper.

 

The kelvin rating should be the same on both bulbs. If one bulb is changing colors, it's going bad. Usually if that happens, you replace both bulbs so the color is the same on both sides. OEM on a lot of vehicles is around 4300k, because that's your best light. Anything too much more or less and you start loosing light output.

 

Make long story short, been through this with my previous 05.
Used after market cheap bulbs which lasted a month.
The factory bulbs was Osram, but used Philips OEM 4300K which was about 100.00 per bulb and worked perfectly.
My 2011 RL uses the exact bulb as the 05.
Replace your bulbs with high quality OEM.

 

All is good I had 10k bulbs in my car, what they said was that the bulb was loose, so that was an easy fix, and now i have 8k's for my HID's now.