Yesterday it rained so hard here in the NE. I was driving home from college and the rain was really hard, causing floods in some areas. Well the HIDs would not cut through the rain! All I saw was a huge glare, the HIDs were reflecting off the rain droplets and it looked like a huge superwhite fog. I turned on my fogs and it made an improvement but slightly.

I know this is the outcome that is supposed to happen...as you go higher in the temperature scale, the less you can see in the rain. That is why usable fog lights are yellow.

Well, just stating my experience...It would've been better if my HIDs were off and my fogs were only on.

Anyone else unhappy with this?

 

I was caught in the same shyt yesterday and my visibility
was fine (matter of fact other cars could see better cause I was on the road!)
I think I will change my fogs to ion yellow piaa's though-

 

I have experienced this with standing puddles - at night, the water from the puddles can be reflected onto another surface (such as another car) almost as if there was a mirror in use. It's a pretty cool effect, and only works with HID's.

 

Hey any tornado damage around your way? Alot of mud was flying around in Central Jersey-

 

i was driving around tonight in the rain and the hids suck in it.

 

hids for me good as s hit on rainy and foogy days that's the one reason I got the 02 max.

 

no mud flying around here but I heard on 1010wins there was a tornado in Staten Island...crazy

So many mixed reactions about the performance of HIDs in rain
In heavy rain these sucked but in light rain or moderate rain of course they will perform well because there is enough space between the rain drops to cut through

but in foggy conditions or very heavy rain, i am dissapointed but not surprised

 

my 7000k HID bulbs were great last night in the rain, all blunted up too....just ask 2k2nyc!

 

I never have a problem with HID and hard rain and I have HID in my fogs too

 

I't so rare when I drive my Maxima in the rain, I don't even know how effective the HIDs are/arent in those conditions.

Manny, when you swap in your PIAA fogs let me know; I wanna hookup with you and check them out.

Peace.

 

Drove in everything but snow and I can say withOUT a doubt it's by far, better then the H4s I used to have.

BTW, I'm blind at night, so being able to see is worth EVERY PENNY to me.

 

My only disappointment under heavy rain is the wipers dont keep up

 

yeah man this morning while driving on 280 there was this LExus IS behind me with just his yellow fog lights on i ahve to admit it looked hot.

i am considering changing them to ion yellow too but i dont want to kill the look of nice white all in the front

-J

 

i hear ya- I wouldnt mind changing them but then
I would want my signals at leat to put out same yellow- or parking lights (is that legal)
The new grand prix's have a nice driving fogs- I see alot of em driving w/headlights off- they put out a nice output

Ion crystal fogs w/ matching driving lights ( worder if PIAA makes a bulb this color) I will search.....
Then I could change/remove the orange cover on the turn signals and put hyper whites in there to compliment the hids- hmmmm

 

i havent seen the new grand prix fogs yellow??? or white??

i realyl want to put HIDs in my fogs but 350 is alot to spend on hid for foglights whyen i already have them in my headlights.....ho well maybe ill jsut buy a pair of yellow fogs and see how i liek it if i dont i can always change back

-J

 

Are Myself and Erik (Juice) the only members with HID in fog lights?

 

no GuZo has HID fogs as well...he has a 2k2...but converted to AE headlights then -- he used to have both HID

 

then its 3 of us

 

glad I live in Cali.

 

glad you live there too

for real...I saw a pic of like 10-15 car pileup in a suburb outside LA--it was raining and I guess people arent used to that over there...so they were sloppy and crashed

gotta love that 91 octane, huh
....and arnold

 

*cough* right here bro, I got 6000K in the fogs and up top

As for the rain, yes Ive also noticed that. The glare off the wet ground doesnt help much either.

Here is a pic when the fog wernt burned in yet Click

edit: I guess this more or less depends on what type of road surface your on. On new roads that are completly black is when I had a little problem. As for the plain oldschool greyish/white roads even with rain it doesnt bother me at all.

 

My 8000K worked fine too... they blind the **** out of people so i can see better!!

 

Mine seem brighter though?

 

You wanna play is like that huh Igor
Actually yes your "fogs" are brighter. My fogs are only 21watts, doesnt really have much funtion to it just looks REALLY good on the ground. Look at the beam pattern in the front of the car. In person its all purple now and just throws row after row of just purple light, it looks really

As for the headlights...here let my show you a pic of the camera facing the car, same angle as yours.



So which one looks brighter to you
Btw-yes I know the fog is a diff color, it was a defective bulb which I took care of 2months ago.

 

hitman -- thats because u took the pic without letting the camera focus

 

Im happy I had HIDs the last few days here in San Diego. The smoke from the fires was so bad, it made 4pm look like 9pm. Regular headlights looked like amber dull lights. Only cars with Hids were able to cut through the smoke and see anything. I have used them in rain a few times, and have not had any bad experiences, but then again, it only rains a few days a year here,,,,,I also dont drive blunted in my Max... I have more class than that .

 

Care to explain why every other pic I took came out clear? Yes I know the pic is a bit fuzzy but I cant help that. Every time I take a shot of the HIDs with the camera facing the lights it comes out like that. With two HUGH rings around each headlight. Here is a pic (again with eht f'd up fog ) with the camera above the light beam.
Still bright as hell.
Btw-Those are Catz D2R capsules.

Dont get me wrong man, I have nothing against Igor's setup it still looks sweet.

Here it is about 50ft away...


On the road the 4300K's were obviously brighter, but from far away (im talkin over 1/2-2miles) when its dark out they look like two spot lights mang. Bottom line is, its still the same ballast just diff bulb.

 

Yeah I could only imagine how much smoke is down there, its actually all the over here! We have had a smoke alert going here due to the fires back there. Damn that sucks, all because of 1 idiot.

 

If you think its bad there......you should have been here on Tues....You have no idea bro.... Pitch black darkness at 4pm.... you would have thought your watch was fukked up ! .... Now the fire is blowing to the East...so you guys get a bit of it... It was the worst in Calif history... EVER ! Ive been here for 10 years and I believe it !

 

I could only imagine, I rember when half of our state was on fire I talked to a few friends yesterday and they said the same thing you just dide. I think it might even get worst then the one we had, that thing is spreading FAST.

 

I dunno, it rains a little bit here in Seattle. My stock HIDs work fine...since I also roll with my Crystal Ion fogs on all the time too...

 

My HIDs are fine in the rain...

 

Ok I'll take a picture just like that over the weekend to see if mine are brighter LOL

Which...I think they are otherwise I wouldn't waste my time

We shall see

BTW- TRICK OR TREAT