35 watt ddm HIDs okay reflectors when leaving in for long periods of time?

If you don't have the money to do it the right way, don't do it at all. It's not that hard. You likely would get much better performance with Philips X-treme Vision bulbs than your 10000K HIDs. And they likely cost less than 1/4th of your HID kit.

Again, you keep claiming it's for better lighting. Your actions state that it's simply to be that "cool" guy. You are that wannabe that wears gold chains and speaks gangster style. That is what you are effectively doing by running 10000K HIDs, let alone running them in reflectors. If lighting was your true goal, you would never have considered 10000K HIDs. Or even 6000K. You would be running 4300K. But no, you're running 10000K. You simply don't care about other people's safety or your own. You care more about looking cool. Or as we say it, rice. Even if you were running them in proper HID projectors, running 10000K HIDs means you don't care about lighting performance and simply want to be rice.

 

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Would LEDs in the fogs be blinding even though they wouldn't be as functional?

 

this is a ridiculous statement. you blind someone and they hit you head on...how much you love your HID's then?

this is just as bad, if you cant see at night you should go to the eye dr or not drive. blinding lights is not the solution

 

they're illegal for a reason. I hope you get ticketed before you cause an accident. get some better halogen bulbs, the light will be better. the HID's scatter so much it doesn't even leave good usable light. especially in rain or snow or fog, they are horrible. im not gonna lie I put some in, had them in a month and took them out, seemed so unsafe to me, going back to halogens and the output was better, not brighter but better.

 

unless you do a retrofit in fogs don't use HID or LED in them, or your headlights for that matter. buy quality halogen bulbs or retrofit correctly

 

Read what I wrote and linked. Foglights should not be used in normal weather, ever. It will detract from your overall vision even though it might seem brighter. Running through lit city streets, it wouldn't matter much. But on unlit highways, foglights should not be used unless weather is really bad. And at that point, you should be slowing down anyways, so vision range doesn't matter as much.

 

You're going to get behind someone one day who is going to take a Louisville Slugger to your headlights. That day can't come soon enough for you. Prick.

 

I've noticed that from what I've read there are quite a few people that ruin their reflectors when putting HIDs in stock housing because of the UV emitted...is this a problem with our trucks too? It seems like the reflectors loose their shininess. I wouldn't be that worried about it if I didn't have mine on for long perioids of time, mine will be on for about 3 hours at a time pretty often. Do you think that ddm bulbs will do this? I saw on their website they use quarts lamps that provide UV protection...I just don't want to ruin my stock housings and reflectors incase I put the halogens back in.

 

Don't do it, period.