jan at suvlights.com is very knowledgeable and a cool guy

 

cool, so do their kits come with instructions? know about the quality?

thanks

 

umm... that's weird man, my 6000k bulbs were 9006 and i put them in, turn it, and they are locked totally. you shouldn't have to loosen up anything, it's directly replacement. i installed the whole kit within an hr, including taking all the photos

 

oh, and if you are talking about the d2r bulbs, yup, put in the bulbs, push down the locking wire clip and you should be done

 

like i said in the pm it's very easy to install. my kit came with some japanese instructions. i don't know japanese but by just looking at the wires, bulbs, ballasts, there is no way you can connect the stuff wrong. there is only one way you can fit everything together

 

rominl - My set was also the same in Japanese but the kit really is dummy proof. just install the harness and bulbs.

I got my from project import. The guy is ok, not the greatest and the shipping I feel was great! They packed the light set in a box that was about 4 times the HID box. I would order from them again in the past. If any others are going ot order from them make sure you email them to make sure you are getting what you want. I do this with ANY online people to have documents for ref.

I also looked at other sites. One that I almost ordered from was http://www.turboevo.com/. I did not since his price was higher for credit card order. So I said no thanks. I want to use credit card to play it safe for any reasons.


***Some night pics**:

from the car: http://home.attbi.com/~mburnickas/hid_light.jpg


at car: http://home.attbi.com/~mburnickas/hid_light2.jpg

(the lights are NOT fuzzy in real life. I had the camera on manual mode so the flash did not work.)

 

yup, it's almost impossible to use a camera to capture what 6000k truly is you have to see it to believe it

 

*NOTE* Just to give you guys a heads up: I just ordered a pair of Phillips Ultinons and I had a lengthy conversation with the owner of the shop and explained to me that there are "Several shops out there peddling imitation Phillips Ultinons, from Taiwan and the Phillipines! All the way down to actually stamping the bulbs with the word PHILLIPS! :eek: Now don't get me wrong here see-fu, this is not directed at you or anyone else! BUT, I do want to post up this image of what he said I will be receiving and the ORIGINAL packaging. This was pulled straight from Phillips site!

 

yeah, you are right, pirated and fake stuff are all over the place in asia. it's to the point it's not even funny, very serious problem indeed. i am from asia so i know very well about that

 

TXSTYLE,

Where did you get your Philips 6000K kit?? How much did you pay for it??

 

GO WITH 6000K ULTINONS FROM AUTOLAMP I HAVE THEM AND I LOVE THEM I WAS OUT LAST NITE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD AND A BMW 330 WAS ON THE SIDE OF ME AND WE BOTH LOOK DOWN ON THE GROUND AND I OUT SHINE HIM HE WAS SICK MAN I'M TELLING YOU 6000K HID KIT IS THE WAY TO GO AUTOLAMP ONLY DEALES WITH PHILIPS ONLY SO U KNOW U ARE GETTING THE BEST OF THE BEST I PAYED $579.00 SHIPING AND HANDLY 3 DAYS TO DELIVER HOW FAST IS THAT COMING FROM G B

 

Are the Ultinon capsules clear or blue-tinted? I was under the impression that they were clear, and that the gas/metal halide mix was such that they burned "bluer" (like a 4100K bulb during warm-up). But I've seen pics of Ultinon's with a blue coating not unlike those on a "super-white" halogen (e.g. PIAA). What's the deal? Are the blue ones knock offs or the real thing?

 

the glass capsules are clear, the ground wire is purple/blue, and the metal sand inside the middle of the glass capsules is red. it's characteristics of all ultinon bulbs.

those blue tinted bulbs, they are 6000k wanna be. true 6000k bulbs like the ultinon, it really ignites at 6000k

 

The Philips bulbs are clear like rominl said, and they use xenon gas, not metal halide. TXSTYLE, I've never seen that packaging for Philips Ultinon. This could be because you pulled that image from Philips' Japanese website. Anyway, the packaging See_fu showed is legit.

 

I was always under the impression that automotive HID lamps were similarto commercial metal halide fixtures (which use metal salts plus a small amount of mercury) I thought the xenon gas was used to excite the molecules of the producing the arc, allowing the lights to warm up more rapidly than a metal halide fixture found in a gymnasium, etc. I'm pretty sure that HID lamps are classified as sodium vapor(HPS), mercury vapor, or metal halide.

GE refers to their ArcStream D2R as a metal halide bulb:
" GE Lighting invented the metal halide light source... so who better to provide the automotive industry with the most revolutionary headlamp bulb since our invention of halogen technology! Designed for use in complex reflectors."
http://www.gelighting.com/na/litlib/d2rsellsheet.html

From KC HiLiting:
http://www.kchilites.com/applications.html
"HIGH INTENSITY DISCHARGE (Metal Halide)
This exciting new automotive technology uses mercury and xenon gases to create and maintain a light source. These two gasses are ignited by applying 30,000 volts of current to two electrodes within a glass tube about the size of a green pea."similar