If you have HID's in a stock 5gen housing, please post picture of beam plz? =D

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Dec 31, 2008 | 02:15 AM

Double0GLE

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If you have HID's in a stock 5gen housing, please post picture of beam plz? =D

After doing some reading on here (and getting pissed at a lot of old promising threads that are dead), I'm curious about how the beam patterns of aftermarket HID's are on stock 5th gen housings.. I have a few buddies that have aftermarket HID's on halogen housings (A Pontiac, Dodge, a few BMW's but they have projectors, and a Civic with H4 bulbs) and they're beam patterns are really good.. Just curious on our housings.. Thanks.

Dec 31, 2008 | 03:09 AM

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Here are mine on a 2kmax, hope it helps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko5jgw-2VT8

Its not the best, i suggest a retrofit or oem 2002+ headlight housings.

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Dec 31, 2008 | 04:42 AM

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Biggest thing I noticed when I had this, is the OEM housings are the best. I bought ebay black housing 00-01 headlights and the HIDs in them were HORRIBLE, in fact 35watt halogen bulbs had better output

Its really not that expensive to do the 2002-2003 headlight retrofit. I did mine for under 200

Dec 31, 2008 | 05:33 AM

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Before buying anything on Ebay, I would first try them in your original housing while looking for a set of 5.5 gen OEMs. I am new to the Max, but have been doing mods for years and just about anything on Ebay is suspect.

Dec 31, 2008 | 06:05 AM

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We sell the HID kits through vendor's here on the org.

Dec 31, 2008 | 06:35 AM

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beam pattern with HID retro's in HALOGEN housings WILL ALWAYS SCATTER, and most of the time wont get a good CUT OFF. As far as the projector housings, THE BEAM of an HID bulb in most cases look crisper in those housings anyway

Dec 31, 2008 | 10:08 AM

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Its really not that expensive to do the 2002-2003 headlight retrofit. I did mine for under 200

You've got to remember that the projector for the low beam in the ebay headlights is designed for a H3 halogen bulb, so of course it sucks for a HID bulb. I bought some of these projectors and had someone retro in 04 Maxima (E55) bi-xenon projectors, so I had HID highs and lows off a single D2S bulb. Good output, clean cutoff, and no blinding oncoming traffice with glare!

Proper HID Retro > All Else

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Dec 31, 2008 | 10:13 AM

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My dad's 2003 M45 doesn't have projectors, and it looks pretty good..

Dec 31, 2008 | 11:30 AM

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Its really not that expensive to do the 2002-2003 headlight retrofit. I did mine for under 200

Under 200?! I haven't found a place to buy a single housing for 200. I used to work at my local Nissan stealership and I even called my buddy there and he told me the best price he could sell to me for was 200... a headlamp lol. Where can I find this retrofit for under 200 you speak of??

DaveVQ.. You're selling your car?! Wait, got any Sterling Mist body parts laying around? =D

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