I guess 4700k is the brightess but its white. Id like a 6000k but Id preferr the blue color @8000k. Any ideas?

 

I got 8000k. here are some pics.

 

Do you have a photo of it head on?

 

i have 6000 and would not go any higher unless you are looking for looks instead of performance. I went for the medium of the alittle less performace and alittle less looks....meet right in the middle and i love them.

i know of a civic that has 8300 and they give off less might than the stock halogens do. Go with 6000k or lower.

i am subscrbibing cause i am sure the projector people will be in here *****in and braggin!

 

i think 6,000k IMHO is the best and has the best light output. anything higher just looks nicer color wise and anything lower will have no color.

my.o2!

Ant

 

I really would like to see as many pictures as possible of 6000K HID's. I'll be getting 2 new sets, headlights & fogs. I've made up my mind a while ago, but just need to make sure.

Andrei

 

4500k has the best output to the road especially in foul weather. Go to hidplanet.com and ask the pros.

 

I have 8600K, and to the supprise of many, these aren't at all dark, they look like a a super bright white with a hint of a violet!

 

retrofit rocks.
anything above 6000k wont have enough usable light
japanese based kits suck
hidplanet.com
I rock

 

Yeah, they're bright, but the USABLE light output sucks. They do have a nice blue to it though.

 

Just so you know what hids in your fogs look like, i'll chime in.......

i've got 8000K in my fogs and they are pretty bright, i'll go around 5000K for my headlights

oh and Nismo98, to answer you from the other day.....i upgraded the fogs before headlights so i could see how bad the glare would be before i went all out on a headlight kit

 

Im okay with Piaas on my fogs plus i use them to blind bad drivers so i dont use them as often as others. This is bad, i want bright but i want blue ...

 

Are you sure? they dont look that bright.

 

Andrei

 

yeah they're blinding if you look at them straight on, that's why i'm gonna rig something up when i do my headlights here's a night pic




But i'm done with lighting for now....i really want a Y-pipe and exhaust

 

6000 is best, anything above that is just ricey blue IMO. 6k is pure white

 

just to let you guys know, the 8k i have, i can see very very well. and ricey blue??? i dont really think so.

 

i have seen lots of 8k kits and they look much more like ****ty pepboys cool blue lights, but 6k is bright and really white, true look of HID. 8k is too blue for me. i dont like, but to each his own

 

6000K is not the best. Please do some research.

You guys aren't getting the point. Yes, the HID's are bright and you can see the road but when you start adding blue and purple to the mix, it dims the usable light. White light is better while yellow is the best.

 

are these plug-n-play lights? or do I need more equipment? Ive seen some cheap ones on Ebay, please let me know if those are any good.

 

we ar enot talking 6000k is the best for usable light
it is just he best to have cause that is where color and usablitliy meet. So you get alittle of both.

 

6000K is good for looks if that's what you want. I had a 6000K kit before my current kit and the difference is plain to see at night.

 

I Have 8600k Hanabi HID's in my maxima and they are the brightest HID's out of all the HID kits my freinds have installed on thier car. i go on long trips upstate where there are no lights and i light up both sides of the highway for about a mile and all my freinds can tell which car is mine stuck in bumper to bumper traffic in the day time. i say go 8600k all the way youll get a beautiful look and no the blue doesnt look like the cheap bulbs in best buy or pep boys. Get these lights sit your car next to someone with those bulbs and tell me if you honestly dont see a diffrence. i have gotten pulled over because of the brightness and intensity of my lights i love them .I owe my life to those lights they got me out of accidents before. i had a 6000k kit and it sucked.

 

You have some learning to do too. 8600K...what a joke.

 

Read and stop all of the nonsense talk about 6000K and higher being better kits. If you spend that much on a kit, you should want something that's usable.

http://faq.auto.light.tripod.com/hl-hid-bulbs.htm

 

i hate these threads.


might as well go with 12,000k...jeebus

 

4300k is the best output: 3200 lumens. My retro fit shows white if you stick your head right into the beam pattern but at any other angels it goes from purple to blue to white.

 

6000k straight on....


Angled....

 

all you guys are dumb. well most of you guys. yes, higher k's does emmit less on the road, but still bright enough to see everything you need.
who said 8k is cheap pep-boys looking or some other hyper white crap???
if you guys see my 8k, trust me, it does not look that bad. yes, 6k does look more pure white, but my 8k has a tint of blue in them, and its not even that blue. the picture i posted above, does not look as blue in person. oh and btw, every company hid's shine differently. like the phillips for example, they have their own hid's and if you get them in 6k, they look just like my hid's. at least my friends does, compared to my 8k.
so, we are all being too ignorant. all companies are different. i have 8k, and i dont care what you guys here on the org say. i get a lot of compliments here, and a lot of haters also. about 50/50 but all that matters is what you really like.

T40e 60-1, dont listen to anyone, do what you think will please you most.



In this picture, it pretty much shows how much i can see at night, i dont think its all that bad. yes 6k will give you more visibility, but who cares, my 8k does more than what i can ask for.

 

I had the 8000k hanabi kit and it looked GREAT. Ppl would pull up to me and ask me what kind of kit I got. And yea, they looked pretty damn bright on the road. For 375 installed i thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.

But...

my ballast(s) and 1 bulb went bad in 4 months. I went in search for a compatible replacement ballast and it was nowhere to be found. I was riding around w/1 headlight for about 5-6 months, and it was pretty damn frustrating. I went to hidforums.com (now hidplanet.com) and the guru's there gave me a lot of info i needed BEFORE i got the kit.

They gave me the run down about the companies behind the HID kits, what to expect, what to stay away from, etc etc. There are those that have much success w/these kits, which is totally fine, but a majority of us who went out and jumped on Freddie's hanabi kits weren't expecting the poor life expectancy and poor manufacturer.

Japanese based HID kits are crap. People with these kits will learn sooner or later.

and yes, the blue in the 8000k kits are very noticeably blue. Nobody has to care what I (or anyone) else has to say about the Japanese HID kits.

Its your money. Do what you want. But I hope I dont see anyone crying about their ballast or bulbs going bad on their Jap based kits like I first did.


Oh yeah, and no need to call anyone dumb. I had both the hanabi 8000k kit and phillips 6000k kit, and can tell which has the better light output. So until you've actually owned a 6000k kit, dont try to make a comparison.

 

No they dont.



Im glad you're happy w/your kit, but you gotta do more research before you go on about this matter. Every company IS different, but you cant compare the quality of Phillips and a Japanese based kit.

 

Facts are facts. Yeah your lights are bright and I know they blind the hell out of oncoming traffic too.

 

Does anyone know where to get yelllow HID's, the ones that are used on Porsche's and others in the LeMans Edurance racing, and how much they go for?

 

yes, that "extra brightness" is the unusable light blinding soccer moms driving in front of you.

 

hey bro. did not mean to say you are dumb, i was kidding, did not think you guys would be so sensitive about it. and anyways....i did compare my 8k with my friends 6k. and did say that they did look similar, well AT LEAST HIS DID! did not mean to say that every single one did. anyways....i think that can come close in comparing it without me owning one.
well...i dont know how japanese brands go about, but i got McCulloch's (did i spell it right?) and they have been doing great for me for the past year.

 

i was not comparing them to the japanese brand, who said i had japanese hid's? too much confusion in this thread.

 

uhmmm......facts are facts, i have them pointing down pretty good to the point where i dont really blind people. facts are facts

 

maxima headlights only go down so far, but you/I still end up having glare output directed to the ppl in front of you.


im not sensitive about it, i just read these threads over and over and over and over, then i get the "my ballast blew out, my bulbs blew out, blah blah blah" thread.

 

I can't believe you are sitting here trying to tell me those lights don't blind people. I've had the kit years ago and got rid of them. Don't even bother going further dude.

 

Even the halogens in the 9004 housing give off alot of glare.....