After Market HIDS
10-28-01, 11:20 AM
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You might want to start by talking it over with Jen at www.suvlights.com. He really knows his ***** about automotive lighting.
If you want to go for it on your own, there is another site called hids4less, or something like that. I've never used their products, but I've read about some quality issues some people had.
FWIW, I was considering the black JDM housings myself, but gave up after learning, as you know, about it being a halogen unit with JDM photometrics. You might want to keep a couple of things in mind:
1) Even with halogens, it is likely there will be a lot of glare for oncoming traffic since the JDM cutoff rises to the left.
2) It is very unlikely that an HID retrofit into halogen optics will turn out to be as good as your OEM HID units. From what I understand, even if you could place the HID arc exactly where the halogen filament was, the nature of the emitted light is very different. You're likely to end up with a lot of glare and color variability (rainbowing).
Now if you could somehow swap over your stock HID buckets into those black housings...man I'd be jealous!
Good luck.
If you want to go for it on your own, there is another site called hids4less, or something like that. I've never used their products, but I've read about some quality issues some people had.
FWIW, I was considering the black JDM housings myself, but gave up after learning, as you know, about it being a halogen unit with JDM photometrics. You might want to keep a couple of things in mind:
1) Even with halogens, it is likely there will be a lot of glare for oncoming traffic since the JDM cutoff rises to the left.
2) It is very unlikely that an HID retrofit into halogen optics will turn out to be as good as your OEM HID units. From what I understand, even if you could place the HID arc exactly where the halogen filament was, the nature of the emitted light is very different. You're likely to end up with a lot of glare and color variability (rainbowing).
Now if you could somehow swap over your stock HID buckets into those black housings...man I'd be jealous!
Good luck.
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