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Old May 20, 2007 | 09:33 AM
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What you guys think about those kits they are all over ebay for cheap
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Old May 20, 2007 | 09:44 AM
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why not just go with xenondepot. they may be more expensive, but it's reputable.

anything with racing in the ebay name is probably junk anyways...
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Old May 20, 2007 | 11:13 AM
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McCulloch is a pretty good brand also.
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Old May 22, 2007 | 10:52 PM
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i bought lights from cxracing. they are working very good for me.
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Old May 24, 2007 | 02:45 PM
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Did you get 6000K?
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Old May 25, 2007 | 08:48 PM
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I got one installed it and works great not bad price
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Old May 29, 2007 | 01:20 PM
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So far I am realy happy with the lights they are very bright no glare and easy to install also. Now I can test quality.
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Old May 29, 2007 | 07:27 PM
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Did you get 6000K?
yeah i got 6k from cxracing, better than stock light.
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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 09:53 AM
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Obviously I am biased...

However, the problem with ebay is that most people leave positive feedback once they received the product. If there is a problem several months down the road you will never know about it as you cannot change the feedback once it has been placed.

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Old Jun 9, 2007 | 05:49 PM
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Here's a full report on the research I've personally done.

I've done extensive testing on many kits from China, Germany, and Taiwan including Philips, McCulloch, Tech One, HID Cool, Goldeneye, Klight, and Bosch.

My stress test requirements:

1) The ballasts have to be rubber injected. This helps to ensure the ballasts can soak in a bucket of water for days and still run with no issues. Not only that but it ensures electronic parts inside will not get jostled around during rough driving conditions. Of course, I don't expect you guys to outfit your personal submarines with hid kits but there isn't much harsher of a test than going underwater. The Philips kit failed this test, as did the Bosch kit. I don't happen to have pictures of the Bosch kit but here is the Philips kit.

The protective cover:



2) Wire harness must provide power from battery to ballasts. For safety reasons, I do not believe ballasts should connect directly to your headlight plug for power. The IDEAL way is to have the headlight plug trigger a relay and the relay then sends power to the ballasts. All kits including the McCulloch kit failed this test except for the Philips kit but the Philips kit is not rubber injected.

3) Good quality wiring. I have seen some kits that have really thin gauge wires and cheap looming that you would be ashamed to put on a go-kart. All but the Philips kit had crap wires. The Philips kit actually provided a wiring harness that had 2 ground.

4) All in one ballasts.
This means, no external ignitors. The McCulloch kit failed this test.

5) Universal connections with Philips and most ballast manufacturers. That means the ballasts will connect with the most common wire harness. McCulloch failed this test and the rest of the kits failed by not even having a wire harness included.

Hope that helps guys.

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