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Old Nov 26, 2006 | 11:15 PM
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Default Ebay HID kit rocks!!!!

I couldn't take driving in the dark anymore and i sure as hell wasn't going to dish out some serious money for Phillips HID kit or a retrofit, so i went to ebay and got me a pair of 6000k HIDs. these pics were taken in a hurry and well before the lamps were warmed up, sorry for the bad pics, but better than nothing!

here we go:

what glare? haha. sure a nice cutoff with no glare would be nice, but all i care about is the light output, i was nice enough to lower the beams so oncoming drivers arent blinded as well as my car being lower.





its so difficult to get the correct lighting on pictures, this pic shows it blue, because it wasn't warmed up, the color is pure white!



poor attempt at a drivers shot:




i never got to wire up my fogs since my conversion, but i definetly want to go the yellow route. 3000k HIds wud be nice but im not about to dish out that much as of now. so for the time being im gonna put on some 2500k bulbs along with yellow film on the housing.
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Old Nov 26, 2006 | 11:26 PM
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Nice, Phillips make really great lighting stuff.
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Old Nov 27, 2006 | 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Lexy GS430
Nice, Phillips make really great lighting stuff.
He didn't use the philips kit. It was an eBay kit.

Great light output!
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Old Nov 27, 2006 | 05:29 AM
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what was the total cost for you? I really want to go HID but I can't justify $499 for the Philips kit
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Old Nov 27, 2006 | 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by NYLexSC
what was the total cost for you? I really want to go HID but I can't justify $499 for the Philips kit
wow, im planning on doin a retro for $499

diy of course
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Old Nov 27, 2006 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by PureDrifter
wow, im planning on doin a retro for $499

diy of course
me too! I was going to follow JeffTsai's instructions
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Old Nov 27, 2006 | 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by NYLexSC
what was the total cost for you? I really want to go HID but I can't justify $499 for the Philips kit
245 excluding shipping, 10mins to install! you can find cheaper ones out there i just didn't trust them.
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Old Nov 27, 2006 | 07:56 PM
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does anyone have jefftsai's diy?

thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by shrka
does anyone have jefftsai's diy?

thanks in advance.

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this one

http://www.projectgs.com/diy/Lightin...ofit/index.htm
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Old Nov 27, 2006 | 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by suhyuk1214
me too! I was going to follow JeffTsai's instructions
Why would you want to do a retrofit? Doesn't the LX470 come with projector lenses? Just install some aftermarket HID's and you should be good to go.
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Originally Posted by PureDrifter
thank you very much
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