Lately I have been seriously thinking about getting 2.5 or 3K HID's for my fogs for better visibility. When it's foggy here or raining hard (tropical storm fay) I am lucky enough to see 3 feet infront of me, esp with the bounce back from the stock white HID's.
With the factory HID's, I get flashed (high beamed, not ) and all the idiotic drivers here refuse to stop doing it. Well If I were to get HID fogs, wouldn't the front of the car appear blinding to others (04 TL with factory fogs in headlight)? Or would it look nearly the same since the fogs are pointed much lower than the HID's? Will the 3K HID's improve my visibility or will it be the same as with the stock halogens?


thanks for the help

 

/wave AJ

it's really give and take. I know the frustrations of ridiculous heavy downpour and the lack of actual visible road.

if you swap out our (04) foglight for a HID, you will see further, but at a much more narrower space; i.e. in heavy rain you can see 10ft futher; but lose 2 ft each side in width.
reason? - foglights are designed with a specific hue because of the colloidal reflection from dust/rain etc etc. even if you upgraded to 3k HIDs, i dont think it would help much.

in the scenario of a torrential downpour, i would probably prefer double hid; but on a normal day to day basis, i like the stock foglights simply beacuse it doesnt illuminate the road better up front; but rather it widens my immediate field/width of vision, and that's more valuable.


double HID of course looks REALLY REALLY cool; and depending on the angle you set your fog to HID conversion, it may not look like highbeam at all; it can though.

i'm actually seriously thinking about doing the foglights in the lower dams and equipping that with yellow bulbs and then doing the foglight to HID conversion for the headlamp fogs.

hope this helps; sorry if some of it doesn't make sense, sleeping pill kicking in

 

i have 6000Ks on my fogs and the width actually was more pronounced at the sides. on a four lane freeway at night with no cars, the fogs hit the center divider and the shoulder easy. it extends just about halfway where the low beams middle section is, and i think improves my visibility as it casts a solid white.

 

either way it would be blinding....the HID kits dont come prepped for D2S or D2R applications they all come ready for D2S....so when u put the bulb in the reflector housing the glare is insane no matter what color u put in because it doesnt have the correct shield like the D2R

 

I have 3K HID FOGs in my 06, It helps TREMENDOUSLY!! Have yet to get high beamed or anything in regards to blinding. The 3K spreads a beam about 20ft or so in front, and spreads out to the sides enough. Comes in handy in Fog, Rain, dark roads.

Love them, glad I went 3K

 

Hmm... I may go this route with the 3k HID Fogs as well...Was it hard to find a place to mount the ballasts for the 04-06 TLs? I would probably try out one of the cheap $90 HID kits.

 

Ok, I only use my fogs when I need to, like in rain and fog, so in normal driving conditions it won't really be a problem. But it dawned on me, hey, if I can't see 4 feet in front of me, how are people going to flash their high-beams at me when they can't see me? With the HID"s in the fog's is there going to be an ungodly amount of glare causing other drivers to see yellow/white spots or is it going to be like the stock HIDs?

 

I dont think so.....the glare balances out because of the projectors....you have the 05 style lens? i have6000k in mine and they light everything up around me.

 

when i head to my house in fl.... cs they do a hell of a lot of justice in the rain or fog or anything....A LOT

 

Not really, I zip tied the hell out of it against some metal pieces.

$90 for an HID KIT?!!! Damn I think I paid like 300 and some change for mine. Oh well Im happy with mine. And didnt even have to run an extra 12v power from the battery. It was literally Plug and Play. WOOHOO

 

hahhhahaahaha, that sounds like what we do with our BIkes, wires or fairings coming loose, bolts missing.... just ziptie it all together. I'll probably end up doing the same. I think i zip tied my plates on the bike as well...and my old civic too... zip ties and duct tape are my best friends .

Yea its one of the many ebay brands that they sell, but there is a store local in NYC that stocks and sells them for $90, so I will probably pick up an HID set and install it... hopefully its just PnP.