LexGX

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Hey guys, i've visited hidplanets.com and i found out that the projectors in our headlights are not made for hid. I've been convinced to retrofit with some acura tl projectors and would like to know yall's input about this.


calvin

purplehazek4

Lex,
it'd take a bit of cutting and modding your current headlights. the cutoff would be better, but our halogen projectors with HIDs aren't as bad as regular headlights that use multi reflectors with HIDs. We get very little light scatter and the cutoff is very good. If you're a "light freak" then it's worth the trouble, but if you just want better lighting with no hassles, just throw some H11 hids on your current projectors and call it a day.

Dan

LexGX

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yea thats what i figured. I have the 6000k philips kit and i mean the light output is great and i get very little glare. I'm not a light freak but what hidplanets.com was talking about scared me to deaf about blinding other folks. But i wondered about other oem cars that come factory with hid with the reflector housing. But what i really want is to get a 4300k kit and have the same flicker effect as bmw, nissan, and etc. And i was wondering if that is possible on our headlights

V8_Fan

The alternative to replacing the projector unit w/ a HID projector is to use re-based HID bulbs. The re-based bulbs put the light at the focal point of the halogen projector. That's what most of us on this site are using (xenondepot 4300K). Sure, the bulbs cost more (like $130 ea vs $75 ea for normal HID), but how often do you replace the bulbs? It's like once every 10 yrs., so that comes to about $2/month over 10 yrs. There is no glare to oncoming traffic, at least in my LX.

rklages

Waste of time and money - just get the kit - I have the 4300k kit and it is really good - much better than the halogens, not as good as my BMW with factory HID, but pretty close and not enough worse to justify the work of the retrofit! xenondepot.com is tops on the kit and support!

ARISTO 161

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a while back i posted about my retrofit
if it helps

try to search my thread and others

LexGX

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Jim_Chow, can you point me to some websites that sell them?

LexGX

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so you took another hid projector unit and replaced the projector units on your gx? or did you just get a pnp kit?

ARISTO 161

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actually, haha, i have a gs
i put another car's projectors in my headlights.
search old retrofit thread if you can

V8_Fan

I use the xenondepot kit, as just about everyone here. The bulbs are rebased, but cost more than the normal D2R/D2S bulbs.

Illusion lighting in LA will install a true HID projector (ECE or DOT) into your existing headlamp, whether it's a reflector or halogen projector. Cost is over $1K for the retrofit. That was my fallback plan. Nice thing about the XD kit is you can always swap back easily. On my LX, I bought an extra pair of the gray plastic caps that include the wire to connect the car's harness to the low beam bulb. I then cut off the connector off that cap, drilled the 25mm hole in the cap to fit the HID bulb, soldered the OEM connector to the XD harness. Now, it's a direct plug-in to the car's harness w/o modifying it at all. On the GX I think it's even easier.

LexGX

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Oh ok, so its a pnp kit. Well then i have the same thing....i thought they were different. thanks