quick question. for those that have HIDs in your fogs. did you get the mini H3 or the regular H3? thanks a lot

 

Mini H3 .............

 

Regular H3

 

Whats the difference between mini and reg H3??, and how hard would it be to put the stock headlight HIDs in the fogs??

 

Stock headlights might be a little to big. The mini H3 is the size of the stock H3 bulbs. My regular H3 bulbs were a little smaller then stock.

 

Rykat fitted his reg OEM bulbs in his fogs after some cutting to make it fit but I got Mini H3 to avoid that its up to you

 

I put the oem D2R bulb on my fogs. You have to put the fogs in the oven and open em up to remove the shield if not the bulb won't fit with the shield.

 

2k so you have regular h7 in your fogs. any pics of how bright they are.

 

WTH are you talking about fitting D2R bulbs in foglight assemblies? There's not enough housing clearance even with a capsule. 5/5.5 gen fog assemblies IIRC have always used H3/Mini-H3 bulbs (non-hid/hid)

 

For Reference:
D2R


H3

 

what did you do to keep the bulbs in place like how did you secure them in??

 

my prolumen kit from umnitza included regular h3's not minis

 

Do you have to get a kit to put HIDs in the fog light assembly? I want to get rid of my ooglie yellowish light. Do I just need to replace the bulb with the H3 bulb ya'll are talking about?

 

Yes you have to get the kit. If you don't want to spend the money but still want to replace the yellowish bulb, you can replace with PIAA or Sylvania H3 bulbs.

 

I have the regular H3...They don't touch the metal cover inside the fog light.

 

WTH are you talking bout if you open em up and take off the shield they will fit. Right now they are secured with lots of tape. but when i get my 3000k bulbs i will find a better way of securing em. Here are sum pics of them on its too dark to take pics of the bulb ill just take em tommorow

 

Anyone has pics of the 3k hid kit in fogs?
I have Umnitza kit but waiting for spring to install and would like to see how it would look

 

ohk so the mini h3 HID kit fits and so do the regular H3 HID kit.. ohk.. so they look the same is that right? jeepik and maxpolak what color are you guys running. im thinkin 4300K or 5000K.. dono which ones to go with. got pics guys?

 

I have the HELIOS mini H3 6K HID fog kit from maximabest....

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=451866

 

Holy Keebler Elf...that's some bright fogs. What I commented on was that from reading the .org posts is that no one (except you) shoved a D2R bulb for fogs (I could be wrong) Securing it with "lots of tape" doesn't seem....safe. Does the tape really do a good job of keeping the bulb from rattling inside the housing? Any condensation coming in? How's the lenses holding up from the heat?

 

So what it the advantage to using the regular H3 vs. the mini?? I assume the mini is just like installing regular H3 bulbs??

 

i am running the 6k bulbs in the fogs and in the headlights

perfect match, and little bit more purprlish output then the factory lights

 

i was wondering what i need to do if i am using my oem headlight ballasts (extras) for the fogs, what am i looking at for converting the oem fogs to hid fogs using the factory balast? just h3 hid bulbs? include pics of what you guys have used. thanks.

 

so are umnitza and helios the only kits available for our fog lights? i am gonna be picking up a set and i am not sure what ones to go with...they are going to be matched up with stock HID's...any recommendations? thanks

doug

 

ANY HID kit that is H3 or mini-H3 will work. Both the Helios and Prolumen kit are made in the same factory supposedly, and both have a lifetime warranty. Unless you get 4,300K they will NOT match your low beams.

 

yea my mistake...i knew they wont match the factory ones...does it look bad with the factory HID's? i plan on upgrading the low beam HID's but not until i have to..i had the PIAA GT-X fog lights in and they burned out in like 3 months so i just want to upgrade to the HID's now.

doug

 

BTW, 4300k in the fogs are shown in my sig.

 

i have H4's in my fogs. i secured them with two screws on each light thru the plastic side of the housing. no problems since.

 

standard h3s had cheap ebay 8000k kit, ballast went bad, so i got a 6000k ultinza(spl) kit.

after having the 8000k for few months i removed the shield. i just switched to the 6000ks about amonth ago. huge difference in light output between the two.

also if uve never installed anything hid, or fogs, i found it easier to removee the head lights and do most of the work from above the car. theres a screw to undo fromt he bottom of the 00/01s thats harder to get to, i not sure about the 02/03s, either way its easier to mount the ballasts and aim the fogs from above. i found this the easist way of the many times ive removed my fogs to do it.

 

Anyone have the answer??

 

The "lots of tape" is just for now cuz i plan on getting the 3000k bulb soon. but im not sure ive been discoraged cuz they showe a slight hint of white so i will prolly do the lexus style capsules and just go back to my Piaa xtreme whites. Im not sure im still deciding. I have no problems with condensation which is pretty unusual i guess and i don think it rattles that much cuz i put like half a roll of masking tape and another almost half a roll of duct tape LOL. About the mini h3 and the h3 aren't the bulbs the same size or is there a Large H3 and a Mini H3 cuz i haven't heard of that

 

Wow those are bright as hell..Looks great..

My eyes the goggles they do nothing!!!

 

i have 8000K for my lowbeams.. i dono wat color i should get for my fogs. i was thinkin bout changing the lows back to stock cuz they are brighter.. but dayam.. the 8000k's look good. gettin 4300K or 6000K in the fogs shouldnt be so bad right? does anyone know if they make 5000K bulbs?

 

does anyone have the helios h3 yellow hids in the fogs?

 

come on guys how do you think that the people that steal h.i.d secure it to there housing????. some use tape and most of them use silicone .