If it is true that news to me.Is there any way to have the HIDS turn on when you unlock the car with the remote?

 

Wow, I hope so, bc I want my stock ones to get whiter!

 

yeah, my stock HIDs look yellowish. my 8k foglights are much brighter! =P

 

I was just starting to wonder about this. I noticed that my HIDs had a yellowish slightly green tone to them. I was starting to wonder if the dealer had just told me that my car came with HIDs. But after further review and witnessing the AFS system work I determined that they just weren't the normal 'blue' toned HIDs.

 

it has to do with your projector. 4300k should look white to human eyes.

 

Yeah look at this pic of mine... granted its day light but the lights look slightly green dont they?

 

Hmm, don't see anything green there. How about a night time pic?

 

I'll see what I can do tonight.

 

A thing about the HIDs coming on with the remote, I don't think this is possible. You can do them with the Honda/Acuras but Lexus' only come on when the car is started.

 

yes they will look whiter. As the bulbs wear down in life, the lumens will decrease, hence increasing the kelvin. The color will shift and become whiter.. but not brighter.

check here.

www.hidplanet.com/forums

 

You know that when Hid lights turn on..theres a ballast that charges to a VERY high voltage to ignite the xenon gas in the bulb. Then the bulb runs on 35 watts. Thats why flashing the hids/having them flash when you unlock the doors or having them on while the car is off is not good for the battery/ballasts.
BTW, HID's get BLUER with time. As the bulbs burn, they become dimmer and then eventually burn out.

 

The labeled light color on an HID bulb is an average that it will maintain over 2-3000 hours. After passing around 100-500 hours the phenomenon "color shift" will take place. Color will change slightly from a yellowish tone to a crisper bluer tone. The magnitude of color shift will vary depending on brand, model and rated color. It is a very gradual change and unless paid close attention to, a customer might not notice. OEM 4100K Bulbs manufactured by Philips has been reported to have a more noticeable color shift than OEM 4100K Osram. OEM 4100K Bulbs manufactured by Philips has a colorshift of approx 250K after 500 hours, which will bring it to up to 4350K.

Asian manufactured bulbs has been reported to have little or no color shift. Most of them come with output stealing blue filters, which may be part of the cause.

 

Its funny how when you ask most people do they know what HID's are, they respond, "Those annoying bright blue lights"...

Half of the time when someone refers to HIDs as such its because of the high number of PNP 8000K+ kids that tend to glare the crap out of everyones eyes.

The normal "blue" tone you're mentioning is actualy the cutoff lines rainbow effect that will usually shift from purple to blue depending on the projector. That is called color flicker, and is the defining point of true HID retro's on cars as opposed to the o so common PNP.

Some people go as far as to modify the cutoff producing an even greater color flicker while still retaining the sharpness of the cutoff, which I personally enjoy. The light below the cutoff when viewed from inside the car, is pure white, while outside is hard to tell due to the brightness of stock Phillips bulbs.

Either way, your "green/yellow dilema" is from your projectors, and IMHO, TSX projectors > 2IS projectors. In other words, get used to your color output if a retro is not in the cards.

 

Or maybe change it to clear lens and figure out a way to do a color mod on the projectors?

 

Yeah, I see the green you're talking about.