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Best HID For Best Buck

Discussion in 'Lighting' started by Chinkhow, Jul 15, 2015.

  1. Jul 15, 2015 at 4:58 PM
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    Chinkhow

    Chinkhow [OP] Well-Known Member

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    Im needing to get new HID lights and fogs and i was wondering who has the best and not to expensive. I know on DDMtuning they have H4 5500k for 79.99. So who else out there knows of a good company that has good headlights.
     
  2. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:03 PM
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  3. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:04 PM
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    No retrofits = no HIDs.
     
  4. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:04 PM
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    do you have to retrofit your headlights at all for those leds? or while the just fit straight into the stock headlight slots
     
  5. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:04 PM
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    You following me? :spy:
     
  6. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:05 PM
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    I believe it is just plug and play. Read the review in the link from my original post and I think the OP there covered everything.
     
  7. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:06 PM
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    With my post count, I am following everybody. :spy:
     
  8. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:08 PM
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    True that. You're basically in every thread I read; even the old ones. One day I hope to get to that level. :bowdown:
     
  9. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:08 PM
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    TBH with you i like the brightassled but I'm not sure if I'm willing to spend 150$ on just headlights because i am also needing fogs too
     
  10. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:09 PM
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    Please don't buy bottom dollar HID kits and run them in non HID housings.

    You will be called names, and you will deserve all of them.
     
  11. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:10 PM
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  12. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:11 PM
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  13. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:16 PM
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    One guy does and doesn't mind being called an asshole. He may post here and say to go nuts, get a low quality HID kit and throw them in halogen housings like he did, just so you can waste your visibility increase while simultaneously being a rolling blinder for oncoming traffic.

    But, he is wrong.
     
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  14. Jul 15, 2015 at 5:19 PM
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    x1000000
     
  15. Jul 16, 2015 at 10:41 PM
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    To be honest, I'm not impressed by any LED bulb light output in halogen housings. There's always some scatter, and that means glare. Probably not as much as HIDs, but still there nonetheless.
     

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