Gotta love hids

I bought a pair of hids not even a year yet and one of the bulbs burnt out
10k 55watt. I've heard the 55watt burn out quicker than the 35watt.


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The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

-Tao Te Ching

 

HID's suck for everything except offroad , even then most guys go with LED bars, reason I say that is most guys just dump in the brightest POS they can find without any prep for them or adjustments, who the fuck needs HID main lamps, HID fogs all blazing at the same time, & as you say they're glitchy, Haha, this is funny, I typed "assholes with HID's"

Lo & Behold, someone from Tacomaworld shows up.......

 

HIDs are a dying technology. They are essentially the same thing as fluorescent bulbs which require high voltage to excite the gas inside the bulb. They can fail in many ways.

LEDs are the future of lighting.

 

Why the hell would you want 10K???

 

10k?! And yeah agreed with the LED being the better solution. Which reminds me I need to install mine

 

LED headlights are amazingly bright! Plus they have a lifetime warranty!

 

& for as much as I've hated HID's the LED's tho' bright dont irritate or blind me near as much as those other fucked up lights

Better spectoral illumination ??


HID offroad good/HID on road bad

 

LED's are just great all around, plus they last much much longer. If the headlights aren't enough for you, then just get a slew of LED lightbar's. That will take care of the lack of lighting you may have during total blackout conditions.

 

I think the San Diego MTS buses have LED headlights. Passed one on the 15 south and was expecting to be blinded but surprisingly I wasn't, plus I noticed it was one uniform color instead of multiple colors of the spectrum like HIDs.

I don't mind stock OEM HIDs or even aftermarket installations where the owner did a retrofit or at least re-aimed their lights but the majority of HIDs I see on the road are utter crap.

 

Agreed, couple years ago a member went on deployment & didn't want to leave his truck on base so he left it at my place in Lakeside for a few months, He had HID's mains/floods & honestly I think I drove it twice at night the entire time I had it, roll up behind pretty much any vehicle & just blind the fuck out of their world... I felt like a dick ...serious...

 

HID's in reflector housings = no bueno


HID's in projectors= muy bueno

 

^^^This. Assholes just slap on the brightest HIDs they can find and say they're done. However, they blind the hell out of everyone. Projectors make the lights have a more controlled beam of light rather than regular reflectors. Getting this done once I get my suspension set up

 

plus projectors are way brighter than a shitty PnP setup

 

It is amazing how stupid people are when it comes to HID's in reflector housings. A city cop that lives in my neighborhood has them in his personal truck. You would think someone in law enforcement would know the difference and that they are blinding people at night. What a tool

 

I'll leave this here in case anybody needs a retrofit

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/lighting/342693-1st-gen-retrofitting-services.html

 

eh hayn where'd you order those projector HIDs from. I'm tryin to get some for me '03. howd u hook uhm up too... i have no clue as to how to do that

 

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Lots of threads in the lighting section here regarding this. Do a search.
Go to
hidplanet.com
theretrofitsource.com
YouTube.com for videos on how to.

Lots of info out there.

 

Those are the same projectors I used to have on my truck.

Here is a write up I made way back in the day.