hey guys i was looking to replace my fog lights and head light bulbs since on of my fog burnt out. i was looking into either philips crystalvision ultra or sylvania silvertars. but i read somewhere that maxima are equiped with hid's? from the looks of my light out put it donesnt look like my car has them. how can i chek if do. my car has salvage tittle so im thinking that when they rebuild it they dint hook the hid's back up and put in regular light bulb since it doesnt even have the oem headlight housing. thanks guys in advance.

 

Only headlights are equipped with HID if you have 02 and up. No OEM HID fog in any car that I know off. All 02-03 headlights have HID stock, so if yours have halogen then it's either Ebay headlights or 00-01 stock

 

Haha I'll save you some razing man. You have hid low beams, and regular halogen hi beams in your headlights, and the fog lights are halogen as well.

 

^^If its a 2002-2003^^ 2000-2001 are all halogen

 

HID in the low beam. If you're replacing low beam bulbs get genuine philips bulbs.

 

i know that the fogs are not HID. so these phillips would be ok for my low beams?

http://www.lighting.philips.com/us_e...30&id=&lang=en

and i was thinking about sylvania silverstar for my fogs.

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/par...67271_0_0_1516

 

You need D2R Low Beam, 9005 High Beam and H3 Fog light. Post a pic of your headlights, there might be some confusion here.

 

sorry for the dirtyness it rained and haven had time to get her washed up

 

this one is with the parking light on


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this is just of the headlight


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Those looks like Ebay light to me....

 

So no hid heres ?

 

9006 low beam then I believe.

 

Is that the blue ones, looking for a white look

 

Yea, those are the eBay halos, should be 9006 low beam light..

 

hey guys im a little confuse now, when i called the parts store they told me i needed h3 bulbs, whent on sylvania page and it said to get h1 :$

 

Fogs are H3.

 

i know the fogs are h3, but im getting mixed answer on the type of bulb i should get for headlight 9006,h3,h1?

 

save you self some headaches and just stay away from hids

 

im not trying to buy HID's im trying to buy some bulbs ex. philips or sylvania to get more output and more of white light effect.

 

9006, h3 all those would be bulb style/fitment numbers. It doesnt tell you how white or blue the light is. That would go by brand/manufacturer

 

am aware of that, the fitment is what im tryign to figure im gettin mixed answer as to what type of of bulb fitment wise i need. the guy at carquest said i needed an h3 but here in the forum there telling me 9006

 

You have eBay headlights so don't listen to Sylvania. Just pull out your bulb and see.

 

i pulled out the bulb and indeed it was a 9006 philips. it also had a code hb4. from the research ive done its suppose to be a white color but its more like yellow. couldnt find anyother marks distinguish the bulbs. any one know of a good brand that has an intense white beam?

 

i also had another question i tough it was kinda of weird when i pulled out the low beam bulb i saw what looked like some kind of shade in front of it. i just wanted to know if the buld where in the right location.


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just making sure to see if there in the correct location.

 

Modify 9005 bulbs to fit.

 

Phillips Extreme Vision or Nighthawk then the Silvester Ultra. Other than those 3, stay with OEM.

I got gizziolion of these OEM 9006 Sylvania if you want them just pay shipping.

 

i tough about it the whole day and im going with and hid kit. i dont think im going to get the result i want with just the bulb. i found a great kit with excellent revies here on the forum for a great price. i just want to make sure that the bulbs are in the correct location. can anyone take a look at the pic on top and make sure i have there in the correct location.

ohh and this is the kit im looking at as we speak

http://www.carid.com/2003-nissan-max...it-343643.html

 

Poor guy!! I can't believe someone swapped perfectly good OEM HID housings for ebay junk, what a world!!!


GoodLuck dude.

 

tell me about it, im guessin it was because the car was in an accident since it has a salvage tittle. today ive decided to go with an hid kit. i go to check and found out that i dont have any stock connection all the mother fudging wires are spliced together i dont know what goes where or what type of connection it originally had, this is turning out to be such a nightmare.

can anyone take a picture of the headlight wiring for an 03 max i need to know exactly what type conection they are and how many connections. i would really really appreciate it.

 

Word any stock 9006 people should mod the 9005 and throw it in there.

 

Already figuere what im going to do, finally found the oem socket type, its an h1 so ima buy one and put everything back to stock and get hid kit i was looking at. Really loving the white from the 5000k

 

do not get an hid kit and put it in those headlights !

PIAA is good if you want to keep it simple and get a nice white look

 

What would happend if i put an hid kit with my current housing

 

Agreed....

 

What problem do i face if install hid kit the housing i have

 

Glare and ****ty output.

 

Ok I read the whole thread I will help you clarify everything. H1 and 9006 have the same harness plug in. Just a different shapped bulb.
So what you need to do is go to autozone and buy a nice set of 9006 silverstar ultras there bout 50$ they have awesome output and a pretty white color. But if you want the 5000k look and money isn't tight go and get a set of 9006 PIAA extreme white plus there about 79 dollars they both have about the same beam output distance but the PIAA's will be whiter. Or if your a cheap butt get some white NOKYA bulbs there super cheap and white but they are high powered and could melt the light harness.

Just my two cents I have had em all there all really bright and pretty white pretty much a $ factor but I have silverstars now in my highbeam and they shine out further than when I had HID's in there so I switched back to halogen

 

Yeah i was cheking out the piaa bulbs there pretty pricey just for the bulbs for 30 bucks more i can get the hid kit. I ordered a 9006 male female socket so i can clean up the mess behind the lights. Them ill see what ill go with. Are thos piaa bulbs better than an hid kit or is a matter of opinion also i apprecite the info

 

 

Is there any was od resucing it without swapping the headlight