im very close to figuring out the issue. once the problem is fixed my friend is thinking about being a vender on here as he is on many other sites to sell these kits.

 

One gets what ones pays for..it's shown time and time again. Buy a $150 HID and you get exactly that, a $150 HID kit, certainly nothing fancy, just another low grade, low cost, built to a price point item. You have to wondor how they can be this low in price when a decent Hella or PIAA driving light set with no ballasts and a very mass produced common type bulb costs more then a specialty HID rig. I'm sure these would not pass TUV or DOT testing.

 

very tru so thats why im not sweating the fact of paying $150 before shelling out 1000k for the oem setup. i thought any mod to your lighting system is iilegal to begin with so what does it matter which kit you buy other than oem.

and if you go by the price of products thinking the higher priced item is better, your gonna be spending alot of money for things that arent worth it.

 

r ppl on this site really always this picky about a set of HID's? always just blame on the price point? even on a set of $150 hid, i'm sure the whole sytem is set up and base on the same concept of a $1000 HID SET (not saying oem xenons). maybe there are just electrical issue? or the ballast aren't the best quality? i think that might be a better answer than, "dude, u r budget.. take out ur life insurance and buy some oems"...

what brand are these hids? they might have warranty?
very nice looking set up ! thumbs up!

 

amen to that.

we swapped out the ballasts to there updated ones and they now turning on with the engine running and also while driving. i noticed the power harness relay is buggin out and buzzin when driving so im goin to take it out. my friend offers 1yr warranty and there made by Banbo.

 

PROBLEM SOLVED.

It was just defective ballasts. Everything works perfectly and they look great.

 

Can you drive your car up to a garage door or wall at night and take a pic of your cutoff....I hope you can prove me wrong...as i would love this mod, but i bet it won't be a very impressive cutoff

 

i just went out to my local stop n slop and adjusted the lights on there wall.....very lil to no glare whats so ever. i will upload pix soon.

 

I see a lot of people complain everytime the mention of non-OEM HIDs comes up. The biggest issue is this talk of cut off lines.

Has any here with standard halogen headlights ever looked at the cut off on their lights? The halogens alone, almost have a perfect cut off. So there really shouldn't be any problem with going aftermarket since you don't really need the washers or the levelers very often, if ever.

 

HAHAHAH are you suggesting that because our halogens have a perfect cutoff, the HID's will? That's hilarious. Do you not understand the whole issue? Because of the shape and length of the HID bulbs, and the light they put out....they don't work like the halogen bulbs do in the halogen reflector. They are unable to properly use the reflector to achieve the same cutoff that the halogens have.

Sure, if they were the exact same size and had the same cut-off....there would be no problem. But it's the way that HID's work in a halogen reflector that causes issues.

 

any updates on this? I really would (no sarcasm here) love to be proven wrong. If our halogens are somehow amazing and have a good cutoff i will go get a set of xenons here. I somehow doubt it....but if xenons are only 100 bucks away, thats a load better than getting the projector housings.

 

sweet hypocracy

 

where? How is it hyporcritical to say that it doesnt work....but if I'm proven wrong i would run the bulbs? If he proves me wrong.....then it would mean that there is in fact a clean cutoff, which is okay by me. The only reason i dont run them is the messy cutoff.

Point out the hypocritical statement in there...i seemed to have missed it.

an abridged version:
Bad cut-off : I think running them is dumb
He proves there is a good cutoff: I would run them.

 

your the first one to point someone off the drop in HID route, yet you would so quickly flip script by one persons opinion.

 

opinion? hardly. I said only if he would PROVE to me with pics that are up to my requirements. It's not like him saying "yah, they're good" would be enough

That's hardly hypocritical.

 

Well here you go. Just like your pic of the jetta, you can see the glare is alot less and the cutoff looks pretty good to me.

 

I was wondering. How difficult was it to remove the whole headlight assembly? What was involved?

 

disconnect the headlight connector and the 3 8mm bolts.

 

to date.....ive had not one person flash me yet with my HID's

 

thanks for taking the time to take a pic for me

I will admit that it's not as bad as i had expected. I'm struggling to see any actual defined cutoff....but it doesn't have any hot point which is good. I will have to drive my car up to a wall at some point with the halogens to see if you're right, but it appears that you still have some glare above the "cutoff' line, which you wouldn't see with "proper" xenons.

If you're not getting flashed, and you feel that the glare isnt too bad...that's cool . Sorry for jumping on you, and thanks again for the pic.

 

Just pulled my car up close to a wall as the test we talked about. You had mentioned that even halogens in halogen housings would have light above the cutoff line if they were as close to the wall as the pics i posted.

When i pulled up, it had no visible line above the cutoff and the cutoff was still nice and clean. It was a straight line with no blur to it. I have oem bulbs in the pre-facelift headlights. (2002)

Just figured i would post for anyone curious.

 

They wouldn't be able to flash you with your HIDs; they'd have to use their own lights.

 

hahaha

I also found some pics of more xenons in projector housings (from a retrofit site)

up close on a wall [xenon projectors retrofitted in oem housings]


pulled back far from the wall


Pretty nice cutoff with no glare or focused hotspots....definitely how a xenon should look

 

How hard is it to install the fog hid?

im interested

 

Do you plan on actually using proper projectors or just going the ghetto route with a HID bulb in the halogen housing? One is much easier than the other.