Hello,

Has anyone installed High Beam HIDs for your 2003 Max? What's a good kit to consider?

I do a lot of country driving and considering this. The only drawback I see is warm up time and don't get that instant illumination with conventional halogens bulbs.

Thanks,

James

 

I would just try and go with a brighter halogen blubs...I remembered seeing a thread about it a few days ago and the guy matched his hid's better with I think it might have been a piaa bulb...just a suggestion to check out..


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If I was you, I'd go with an HID conversion kit for the fogs, not high beams

 

James, there is no need for HID high beams. There is a simpler solution.

1) get piaa Xtreme white 120w 9005's
2) use the ***** on the back of your HID assemblies to aim the beams
up. ( a white hexagonal **** that you can use an 8mm ratchet to
turn)

I did this to my max ( I also do a lot of driving on dark highways), and the results were amazing. You know how the beam for the HID's ends like 150 ft or so ahead, now mine is more like 600. The High beams point up a little bit, but you wont really need them anyways. Good luck.

 

120W could conceivably burn your stock wiring to a crisp. It's not likely your stock wiring can handle that for long periods of time.

 

Its's 55W in 120W out, so it wont burn out the harness.

 

that's not only impossible, it doesn't even make sense.

55W INPUT means you'll have LESS output due to heat and general transmission losses.

Unless the laws of physics don't apply to your lights, this won't work that way

It's a basic principle of physics - energy cannot be created or destroyed.

Only way I think you are getting 120W is that the 55W is entering some tranformer or amplifier that is drawing power from somewhere else.

If you have more energy out than you consume, you have invented the Holy Grail of energy and should go be rich at General Electric

 

Just reading the outside of the PIAA box, no invention here...

 

ok, here's what I'm thinking happened.

PIAA compared their output to a 120W bulb and saw that they'd found a way to convert more of that heat energy into light energy, enough so that it mimic'ed the output of some 120W bulbs.

Then, marketing took over

 

You got it