www.nissanusa.com

 

IMO the 04-05 Maxima has projector lights that are aimed a bit too high. They lit the road very good far ahead, I could see miles ahead... but it's very dim just in front of the car. I think it applies to most later Nissan/Infiniti's with projector lights...

 

well in the Murano, the lights can be adjusted. thats a pretty neat feature. maybe they should add that on the Max.

 

Will the ds2 bulbs fit in the 9012 holes? Or is there a way to change the bulb holder?

 

i didnt feel like reading through 3 pages of posts, but the 9012 bulb for our cars is similar to the new H13 bulbs. I believe maximabest is still allowing people to purchase these for $265 a pair shipped. check out the GD's.

 

took these pics a while back...hope this sheds some light



HID headlamp


Halogen Headlamp


Bulbs

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Halogen bulb

 

Halogen bulb in a HID headlamp- wont fit


HID bulb and HID headlamp

 

Would anyone happen to have the part number to switch out the bulb holder? Or is it, just replacing the projector alltogehter? Thanks for the pics pal379




Npw with reviewing the photos again I see that the it just bolts in there. What is the actual name of that part? Is it a reflector or is it a bulbholder?

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Bizzump^^^^^

 

You cant switch the "bulb holder" without switching projectors

 

Ok now I am with you.....Thanks for all your help and the pics

 

Hey look on ebay maxblue got a good deal and they were not aftermarket.

 

hope im not to late but i have a 2005 max and i switched over to hids and i ordererd the 9006 kit from maxibest and everything is perfect the only modification the mech had to make was shave one of the tabs a little bit on each bulb socet. also i got the 9000k color and there nice bright and blue and i see every thing on the road. hope that helps!

 

I bought a complete oem kit for 280 landed bulbs projectors and ballast's

 

This thread has helped me a lot. I just purchased my max about three weeks ago. It was a theft recovered vehicle. The front end was stripped. It had non-xenon lights originally but I'm buying the entire xenon assembly for the rebuild.

I've been wondering if there would be anything extra I would have to add to make them work. I gather from this thread it will be a simple plug and play situation.

Thanks for the info.

 

Correct.. I was a non-xenon car, then purchased 2 OEM xenon, and after i painted the interior black, i had them installed.. Added 6000K HID bulbs, and BAM, done... LAter..

 

I just bought my Max today and I thought it had HID's but it doesnt . I like the PIAA's. Does anyone know what the identical bulb to the 9012 would be in a PIAA replacement for a Extreme White Plus?

Thanks all.

 

Dont buy a blue bulb. It's waste of money and time. Been there done that. I hated it... It's totally useless... also wires and/or housing will melt from excess heat.
The OEM HIR 9012 bulb should be a lot brighter.

 

Actually I have a new mod in the works that will put out 30% more light than a 9012 and its not HID.

 

Let me know please when your done with the bulb. I was pissed when I got my car yesterday and it didn't have HID's. Its only a $150 option and my car I thought had it. There were only two 6 speed manuals in smoke color that were available on the east coast. This guy at a shop I went to yesterday said he could get a kit for $399 and 75 for the install. The bulbs are 10,000K so he claims. I didn't know they go that bright. He has had his in for a year now and no electrical problems. They are so bright it looks almost like his high beams are on. I will get the name of the manufacturer and post here.

 

Complete NEWB here. I have my Max for two days and have not slept do to this forum, too much reading. Anyway, I bought a kit off ebay for my wrx and it was a nice and easy install. I emailed the seller from where I bought them and asked about some for my Max with stock 9012 lights. He said yes we have them and the kit you need is 9006, but I forgot to ask about the high/low with one bulb. I will email him and ask about the one bulb problem.

But if it helps anybody the kit for my wrx was perfect and he offers free shipping for $299. Search for hid kits and look for the seller "supervtec". Great kit for only $300.

 

there is a GD on HID I beleive it is 295 shipped for the 6th gen kit. the brand is Helios or something like that.

 

Oh welcome newbies

 

Good luck with the install. It'll not be easy. I've taken my front end off more than 30 times... you might want to get a HID headlight cap... replacing the halogen cap.
This is what I did.
1. bought a HID kit from eBay (9006 rebased bulb with flat Denso ballast - WARNING: this ballast has very short wire cables... get a ballast with long wirings) If you can find a used 6th gen. Maxima ballast, that should make the job easy.
2. take off the front bumper.
3. take out the light housing
4. cut the back of the headlight end cap for ballast wiring to pass. slap the ballast onto headlight housing... when ur putting on the ballast, make sure headlight assembly can go back into its place afterwards. it's very tight.
5. make sure to wire the power into ballast, and the ballast to the bulb... seal up the back of the cap so no water can enter.

steps 4 and 5 are easy if u have HID end cap and 6th gen maxima ballasts.

6. make sure you lower the headlight aim. i got flashed on numerous occassions... flash, honk, yell... etc.... well... maybe not yell. (dont open the screw covered with plastic cap. that adjusts horizontal aim)...
7. when all done, put things back together. expect to spend half day if you're newbie and never done this before.

 

imo, 10,000k is too blue in color. blue tint = dim = look like el cheapo.

get 5000-6000k ones instead... maxima projector has really colorful bluish cutoff anyway.

 

I just want super bright white light not the horrible yellowish color of the standard bulbs. Will a 9006 super white PIAA bulb fit in a Max without HID's?

 

The 9006 PIAA is 6000K Super White Plus. Will that fit in the Max non HID socket? Anyone know?

 

it will fit.
9012 has 9006 socket base, except it's a lot brighter.

with the 6000k super white plus piaa, it might be a bit harder to see what's on the road than hir 9012 though.

 

So what your saying is the HIR 9012 is brighter than the PIAA Super White Plus? It looks kind of yellowish to me that's why I want a whiter bulb if that is possible without going to a HID setup. Any recommendations.

 

Thats absolutely correct. There is no aftermarket lightbulb that has greater total light output than a 9102. All you are getting is a different colour of light and a decrease in total output.

CM

 

Thanks, I will keep what I have then. No sense in wasting money when I can spend it on other mods.

 

Sorry, I didn't read all the thread but I have a question. I got a set of ballasts off Ebay for 03' Maxima and I can't figure out what all the wiring is for. Anyone have a diagram?

 

Oh yea, forgot to ask, are there 9006 bulbs that will work with d2s wiring harness?

 

You can buy a 9006 harness cheaply at any auto supply store.

You may as well go with a 9005 bulb and harness though. The high beam version of the 9006 but has 65W output vs the 9005's 55W. Same cost, same bulb, nearly the same effort to replace it. The bulb needs slight modification to fit. Dremel the tabs on the outside slightly. Will fit a 9005 harness if you dremel the alignment tab inside the bulb connector. I did this on my previous car and ran four 9005 bulbs withh no issues.

CM

 

For whoever have done the HID conversion from Halogen, do you still have low and high beam?

 

Hey everyone, newbie here. Was referred here from www.HIDplanet.com because i had this exact question.

Been working on a bi-xenon retrofit into one of my Mustangs and i was interested in changing my halogens on my '05 Max to HID's.

The standard HID bulbs are the D2S and the D2R. There are other types, but this are the major ones. These are what comes in most factory applications. Retrofit kits offer the same bulb, but mounted on a traditional halogen socket base like a 9004, 9006, 9007, H7, etc.

Now, if someone can come up with a difinitive answer on whether the halogen projectors and HID projectors are identical, then it will make this swap very easy. Unfortunately, most halogen projectors are not ideal for HID's because they do not cast the light the same way. The guys on HIDplanet were not sure if this is the case of the Maxima's bi-xenon setup.

The bi-xenon setup uses a shutter inside the projector to switch from low beam to high beam. The max uses this on halogen and HID setups. I know that bi-xenon projectors are sought after for HID retrofitting as i'm trying to fint a pair myself. Other vehicles run 4 xenon lights (2 high, 2 low) similar to the old 80's cars and trucks which ran 4 sealed bulbs. Bixenon creates the low and high beam using a shuttered projector and 1 bulb.

Now, assuming the projectors between the HID and halogen are the same, that means we are very fortunate and the only thing we need to do is install a rebased HID retrofit kit. OEM HID's using the D2S bulb will not fit the halogen housing, however, there are adapter harnesses on Ebay that can convert the AMP connectors used on most kits over to D2S and vice versa. In other words if you buy a pair of ballasts and bulbs off ebay that use D2S bulbs, you'll find the bulbs will not fit the housing. What you would do then is simply buy a pair of bulbs for whatever bulb socket you need, and cut and splice the adapter harness over. Same thing goes if you are using an aftermarket ballast and want to run OEM D2S bulbs.

I have a spare 9007 HID kit i was going to install into my Mustang, but didn't want to deal with all the glare associated with some "hack" conversions, so i decided to custom fit some bi-xenon projectors into the headlight housing. My plan is to purchase a pair of 9006 (or 9005 whatever the Max takes) bulbs and use them with the kit. The bulbs i have now are 8000K, which is way too blue for my liking. Most factory HID setups are 4000-5000K range. This is actually the brightest light output. Anything over 5500-6000K is just coloration and changes the light from white to blue to purple. The human eye cannot see blue all that well, so these higher K values are actually DIMMER and are pretty much eye candy.

Problem is i have not taken the bumper of headlights out yet to check wiring or fitament issues. Ideally this would be wise before i order a $80 pair of bulbs.

The million dollar question is are the HID and halogen projectors identical disregarding the bulb sockets? WIll the light output between an OEM HID and a halogen retrofitted housing be the same? WIll it have identical cut-off lines?

Another question to think of is if the wiring is different between Halogen and HID equipped maximas? HID's draw 35watts compared to the standard 55W of a normal headlight. That's 2.9A of draw compared to 4.5A with a normal bulb. The problem is on startup the HID's draw FAR more, up to 10A of draw the first 10-15 seconds. A lot of underhood fires have been started from guys hooking up aftermarket HID kits to factory wiring and exceeding the rating of the wire. I myself have smoked one harness like this. The proper way is to use the OEM wiring to trigger a relay feeding the ballasts drectly from the battery. This method is safer and also increases the life of the ballast by providing them withthe power they need vs. starving them feeding through inadequate factory wiring. Again, unsure how the Max is wired, what size wire, what size fuse etc, but i would wire any HID retrofit using relays and using the OEM harness to trigger the relay on. Last thing you need with these is an underhood fire.

Anyway glad to be here guys!

 

Hi, guys! I have 04 Maxima SE with HID. Does anyone know what color temperature the stock xenon bulbs are?

 

4300 is what most OEM manufacturers use.

 

Yeah, I keep hearing people say that but it doesn't look like 4300. I'll post some pics tomorrow.

 

Here's a question to those who have compared the HID headlights to halogen headlights??

Can the projectors be swapped?

In other words if i were to purchase some HID headlamps from a wrecked Maxima, could i just swap over the Xenon projectors, ballasts and bulbs? Will the housings accept it?

WHat if i were to purchase perfectly fine HID housings? Would it be plug and play or are there differences in the wiring?