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Old 07-31-2006, 07:06 PM   #19
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Anyone who is more interested in retrofitting projectors into their housings for whatever reason (looks... availiability of bi-xenon) should check out Hidplanet's forums, plenty of people over there retrofitting HID into about anything you can imagine. As for your HID's Chris, they're looking good, I'm amazed at the beam pattern considering these are Halogen reflectors.. did you upgrade your harness though? I really would recomend it, granted HID ballasts only pull 35W running, they surge up at fire-up and I've seen a few toasted harnesses with longtime users of HID conversions that didn't upgrade their harnesses.
yeah, i'm no electrician but this was the same explanation given to me about HID ballasts, since they pull more current especially on start up(am I correct?).
I have used MANY many HID bulbs of MANY varieties other than Xenon, and the ballast was always the PITA. Though, i would have to say that it could be BECAUSE OF CHEAP, GENERIC BALLASTS. If you get good ballasts, they shouldn't hurt anything. that's why I run Phillips ballasts that are OEM LEXUS. but, the first few years of "HID retrofitting" saw hundreds of cheap, no-name companies building these Ballast boxes for next-to-nothing and this COULD BE WHY there was such a problem with wiring harness melting back-in-the-day.

The ignitor in HID ballasts can wreak havoc on your fuses and wiring harness, but I can't say that this problem hasn't been addressed...i really haven't heard any horror stories about melted wiring harnesses in the last few years.

HIDPlanet rox. Good info.
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Old 07-31-2006, 07:55 PM   #20
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you have a website to buy the hid kit?
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Old 08-01-2006, 09:52 AM   #21
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you have a website to buy the hid kit?
If you are talking about the one in my car, contact me direct.

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Old 08-05-2006, 07:22 PM   #22
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TRD Yaris, glad you're enjoying the info over at HIDPlanet, I would agree that toasted harnesses are sort of rare nowadays, but I've seen enough of them, and I know harnesses are a PITA to deal with, so... I'm going to subscribe to the better-safe-than-sorry camp on this one, you can even make your own harness on the cheap and a premade, decent harness would only set you back about 50-60 dollars, think of it as insurance.
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Old 09-23-2006, 12:05 PM   #23
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Hi, Im new here :)

One thing to say....HID is the way to go.......

All xenon bulbs.....(Piaa, siverstars, etc etc) try to SIMULATE the effect of an HID system.....

buy the real thing.....a little more expensive....but really worth it!

I just bought a '07 5 door hatchback an i put in there some 6000k bulbs....not at blue as the 8000k kit...but a lot brighter.... i'll post some pics tomorrow...

im really HAPPY with my HIDs :D
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