Hey guy's, i recently sold my '99 i30 which had 9004 bulb (standard) what i did was bough after market Xenons which burn at a very high temp and produce purple light instead of regular blue Xenon lights you see on BMW/AUDI/MB. They are the best you can get for a '95-99 maxima. Because all you have to do is stick the bulb in and properly connect the wiring. One thing you should know. When you get Xenons for a '95-99 maxima or i30 or any other car that uses 9004 headlights bulbs you will loss your ability to have high beams, however just because you loss the high mean your regular beam will make up for the high beam, trust me. If i missed something and anyone has any questions about this please let me know. My e-mail address is: eap@exclusiveautoparts.com.

P.S: this a personal set i don't have more then one set, i can get more sets. However they will be a lot more money. This set i'm selling for $250. Because they are a perfect fit and don't need any modification's for a 9004 bulb.
Thanks
Mike

 

Thank you for the concern. From your description about "xenons", im guessing you're talking about aftermarket HID kits. A couple of threads have been stressed about the annoying glare these produce, along with the crappy kits everyone is buying on ebay.


note in mind, most of those cheapo kits are made in taiwan, japan, or that sort of asian based company. The ballast sucks and the bulbs are cheap, which consequently, leads to failure of the kit. A couple of kits i would stay away from would be HANABI, McCollouch(sp), and anything about 6000k, because no reputable company would produce a kit above that level.



more info can be gathered here: www.hidforums.com


the best aftermarket kit for your car would be either a Catz hi/low, Phillips, or components made by Hella. Unfortunately that will still produce a glare, with or without eyelids, and no matter how much you point your headlights down.

Best thing to do is go to hidforums.com , learn how to retro fit a bi-xenon kit into your car w/projectors, and you'll be set. A bunch of ppl have them on the org, and they are NICE.

hope this helps

 

Yes the glare on this HID kits can be a bich if not properly setup. What I mean by properly set up is using projectors. HIDs without projectors are annoyingly bright and the reason why they are illegal. Just like Nismotic said McCullough, Hanabi and some ebay HIDs are crap. Only go with the trusted names (Phillips, really recommend Hella and expensive but quality Catz), other than that everything else is junk.

BTW from experience (as you can see), McCulloughs are amazingly bright and cannot be controlled just by aiming the headlights down. I haven't had any problems with the wiring like everyone has had in the past. I just had problems with people being really really pissed at me with the brightness of the light reflected off of the headlights. Just beware with HIDs kits for the maxima, you will have to do more work to make them actually look good and LEGAL.

 

I concur with nismotic and taken. i've already gone through 3 Asian-made HID kits. (1st one sold because it was too blue, 2nd one sold, 3rd one crapped out after 1 year)

Ive finally decided to invest a little money and get it done right. If your gonna buy an HID kit, buy Hella/Philips/Osram components and bulbs. I hate how almost everyone is given the false notion that the higher the kelvin rating the brighter the light will be. That in fact is totally untrue. The brightest HID bulbs are the ones rated at 4150k-4300k. Thats what all cars with OEM HIDs use. The blue/purple colors you are seeing is the light being refracted as it passes through the projector lense.

 

I have a set of HID's. They are 8200k using hella ballasts. I haven't had any problems with glare. The reason for some kits producing to much glare is the bulb isn't the proper length for the reflecting ring. Try turning on your lights and pull the bulb in and out and watch the light pattern. The farther you pull it out the more the pattern expands, the more you push in the tighter the pattern becomes. If your kits are cheap and the bulbs aren't to spec they will not work properly. This is usually for the 95-96 cause we have just an open ring where the bulb sits and no reflector pushing the light backwards like the 97-99's. I have tried to retro fit a set of hid's from a maxima and that was my only problem, the custom mounting piece left the bulb to far out and I got light everywhere but strait forward. Now I bought a regular conversion kit and it works great.

 

What?

First off, the higher the kelvin (k) the less output the bulbs will output. Yes, it will be a nice rice blue and may seem brighter, but its not. Best kit is 4300k. Secondly, 9004 housings are reflective housings, making it the worst for HID setup. The light scatters like a mother effer and that produces the worst glare for the losers ahead of you. I'm not really getting what you're talking about with the fitment, but I dont think the glare is caused by what you said (someone else correct me if im wrong).

 

From I remember people who switched their headlights to cefiro got a much better result with HID, is that true. Is H4 that much better then 9004?

Andrei

 

First you should try what I did by pulling the bulb in and out to understand how the beam pattern works, then maybe you can talk ****. I didn't say that my bulbs were brighter in any way, or anything about the color, just letting you know about the pattern and how the open ring reflector on a 95-96 works. I had no choice in the kelvin color or I would have picked something much lower. Depending on the type of pavement you are driving on light will be absorbed differently. Driving on a concrete type highway the whitish blue will be much brighter cause it reflects, on a paved asphalt surface which is black a 4300k would be more beneficial cause it is more of a dull color which wouldn't be absorbed as easily as blue would. And just to let you know blue is the best penetrating color going through ocean water or any water that isn't pure(acidic rain), technically it is blue green light that penetrates the deepest in water in the open ocean. ROY G BIV, that is the color scale, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Light penetrates the ocean to an approximate photic depth of 100m. At that depth 90% of sunlight would be absored and only blue light will be visible, I am pretty sure that we can all agree that the sun has the brightest whitest light. Rain isn't sea water but depending on where you live the salinity levels could be higher or lower. I am 100% sure you or I wouldn't be able to tell the difference if it rained sea water cause it is 96.5% pure water and 3.5% salt. Sorry to go off but all I was talking about was the pattern, you started talking about the color scale. I do have more info on light, if you have any doubts about my credibility.

 

HIDs in halogen reflectors = bad. Been there, done that. Too much glare, no High beams, and its illegal. Luckly Ive got some bi-xenon projectors on the way which ill be retrofitting. Worth the money, no glare, ill have high beams, and it will look much better.

 

damn, dont get your panties in a bunch. Let me make it easier.

any bulb produced greater than 6000k = crap.
Your beam pattern (and mine) in a 9004 housing = crap.

Your long obsessive paragraph about the ocean water = crap.

I dont care about your Bill Nye scientific reasoning. The obvious is stated.

www.hidforums.com

Now take your pos 8500k bulbs out, and eat them.

i think this is when formz would be useful on the org. Too bad he got banned.

 

^^^^^ Couldnt have said it better myself. When i had my 10000k kit in, it was seriously no brighter than my stock halogens.

 

Again, talk about not being able to read and comprehend. Did I say anything about my lights being brighter than that of a 4300K. Its amazing you can even type on a computer or much less read this. I'm glad you know who Bill Nye the science guy is but I wish you would use a better form of education to better yourself.

 

It's not hard to comprehend. You have crap bulbs, and you are still blinding the mothers out of everyone in front of you.

There's no need to comprehend that bullish that you wrote in your previous post.



Those without retrofitted projectors have the beam pattern that would light up and blind surrounding areas like an xmas tree. No matter how you do it, your/my hid setup is still causing a glare.

If you dont believe me try this website. I've tried to learn how to correct my poor beam pattern w/instructions for a bi-xenon projector setup and learned much here.


www.hidforums.com

Whether you know it or not, your/my setup is still blinding people. Stop making excuses for yourself.

 

That's funny, I didn't lose my high beams.

 

High beams are for losers

 

Hey guy's didn't have a chance to use a computer for a while. My set is Asian i had them some time on my 99 i30 didn't have a problem with them. Also, they are 12000 not 6,000 or 8,000. My personal set produces purple not blue or green or white look.
But i have also heard that there is a problem with the balast. Luckly i didn't have that problem.

 

The reason why most of the time xenon or other lights blind those around is because headlights have been messed with (example: car was hit in the front so head lights where replaced, someone wanted to adjust headlights themselves. Or the bulb isn't the proper size i had this one, so what happens is that the bulb isn't properly secured inside and it beams in all different directions therefore beaming inside cars ahead of you of which we have the result of the middle figure when we pass those that we blind)
Also, in addtion to Asian xenon's, some are better then others. One of my friends bought HELLA directly from GERMANY he had to replace in total balast & bulbs within ONE YEAR about 3 times. 2balast & 1 replacement of a bulb. And he got them from a family member that bought those HELLA lights in GERMANY.
MG

www.exclusiveautoparts.com

 

I have a asian kit, lol. I really didn't know much about HID's when I got it. But it's been fine, no complaints, maybe I got a good one? Maybe there is no such thing, well now, I am considering selling them and getting some real nice Hella's with a bi-xenon bulb with some projectors. They look really nice and the bi-xenon idea is really cool.

And yeah, I do blind people, 9000K purple.

 

i'm not sure about all of that, but the main reason for our glare problems is the 9004 headlight housing itself.

I had the Hanabi kit and it went in 4 months. For those of you with cheap asian kits, be sure to keep the ballast away from water.

 

I'll keep that in mind because i have a 2000 i30 know and i want to get Xenones for this one which is 9006 i found some guy not far from me for $280 i don't recall the brand of the lights but they are 10,000. The guy also told me that i'm covered for a year on both bulbs & balasts.

Any comments on that ? Because i m not sure if i should get them since some of you guys have been so negative towards ASIAN kits. Or maybe if someone has something to recommend...
-mike-

 

DpG $h0rTeE - Are those custommade projects from your sig? or just AE custommade? It's nice... wanna do that setup for my headlights..

BlueC - what are the bi-xenon projectors? how much?

I'm looking for some HIDs also... but actually I'm jus lookin' for anything (cheap) that willl bring out WHITE light?! I've tried so many different bulbs and nothing is what i want! I want WHITE darnit! Thought bout HID.... but now I need to learn what HIDS can do! So I want a good product... that will last long and worth it.... that also gives a NICE WHITE Lighting that is good on wet roads and dry roads... maybe subscribing to this forum will help me :-)

Thanx all!

 

I wouldn't recommend it man. Just remember, you get what you pay for. A decent retrofit bi-xenon kit (parts) from ebay and all comes out to approx. 350-400, and a reliable conversion kit (plug and play) is 400-500. Its your car, you do what you want, but i highly bid against using a crappy asian kit.

I urge you to read this before you make ANY decision about your HID kit.

www.hidforums.com


If you want a good plug and play kit, get the 4300k or 6000k Phillips kit. Its costly, but if u want a good site to buy it from w/next day DHL delivery, pm me.

oh yeah, 10,000k = purplish light...pretty colors, but you might as well duct tape glows sticks on your headlights because thats how much usable light you'll have.


trust me, i did my research after blowing 375 bucks on a hanabi kit with the 1 year warranty...and when my ballast blew, the seller (who was well known on the org) disappears.

 

You know I'm on the same page with Nismotic. I've had my POS McCulloughs for about 2 months before I had to give them up because of the glare they produced in our headlight. I think that most people that get HID kits are uninformed about them when they first get them. Not after the experiences of these kits expand do they understand why it's so important for any maxima owner to use something that it preferrably under 6000k (4000k highly recommended) and have bi-xenon projectors. If you don't have some sort of set up like that then you're just contributing to making HID kits more illegal and harder for people to buy them as time passes by.

 

Its not the xenon bulb that is Bi-xenon, it is the projector that makes it bi-xenon. There is a shield in the projector wired upto a selenoid, that moves the shield away so the light extends upwards.

I got mine used off of ebay, they came off a 2003 Mercedes E500. But they are not cheap, expect to pay $500+ for a complete setup (projectors, ballasts, bulbs, heavy duty wire harness, etc). Alot of work is involved too, but worth it.