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Old Feb 8, 2009 | 10:57 AM
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ok i have 8000k headlights lowbeam fogs and highbeams what about my driving lights what size bulb are they because they are still white what should i do with them thanks any thing will help
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Old Feb 8, 2009 | 11:25 AM
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What do you mean by driving light? Your Daytime running light + halogen highbeam? That is a 9005 bulb.

There is also a city light (parking light) that uses a 168 bulb base. This one is on at night with your lowbeams.

You just said your highbeams are 8k, so i'm guessing that you're referring to your bixenon projector and not the additional halogen highbeam next to it.

To match your 8k lights, you can find some blue tinted bulbs to replace, or LEDs (will cause problems with the 9005 though)

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Old Feb 8, 2009 | 11:37 AM
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yeah sorry meant my drl lights so ur saying those little bulbs up above the 9005 are 168 for driving and parking lights is that correct
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Old Feb 8, 2009 | 11:45 AM
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when you turn on your low beams, your dayrunning lights, also high beams ( the centered bulbs) turn off and little "dummy" lights turn on that are in the upper corner of the reflector, those are 168. Change those out if u want to have no amber look when you have your lights on.


if your talking about when you don't have ur low beams on, then those are your day running lights, which are 9005. personally i like having high beams, but i want the clean HID white look, so i just always drive with my lowbeams on, because the DRL turn off and i swapped out my "dummy" 168 lights for HID white LED's so it looks clean while still leaving me with highbeams
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Old Feb 8, 2009 | 11:48 AM
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ok im changing my 168 today then hopefully that fixes the white color in my lights thanks
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Old Feb 8, 2009 | 11:53 AM
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when you turn on your low beams, your dayrunning lights, also high beams ( the centered bulbs) turn off and little "dummy" lights turn on that are in the upper corner of the reflector, those are 168. Change those out if u want to have no amber look when you have your lights on.


if your talking about when you don't have ur low beams on, then those are your day running lights, which are 9005. personally i like having high beams, but i want the clean HID white look, so i just always drive with my lowbeams on, because the DRL turn off and i swapped out my "dummy" 168 lights for HID white LED's so it looks clean while still leaving me with highbeams
i have a question tho i have 8 k high beams why are they still white while driving in the daytime tho and then when im driving with my low beams i have white still comin out of where my highbeams should be it doesnt make any sense but i will try 2 switch out that little dummy bulb hopefully it fixes the problem ...
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Your parking light (the 168 base) is found on top of the high beam bulb (9005). Look into your headlight. The high beam reflector should have two holes, one for your high beam halogen and another tiny thing for the city/parking light.
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