Turned on my lights to go out tonight and my friend tells me my headlight was smoking. Pulled out the light and it looked all melted. I think my headlight housing is permenantly messed up. Got em from Freddie so hopefully it won't be to much of a problem.

 

i don't have HID, but that's kinda what my old halogens looked like when i accidently touched them when i was installing them. maybe you touched them by accident?

 

Made sure to handle them with a microfiber towel when I reinstalled them after inspection. Also would seem strange that it would happen a week or so later. I'm stumped.

 

Holy crap! I've never seen this happen before. PLEASE tell us what brand that is...omg thats bad!

 

They're Hanabi 8000k's, they've been awesome up until then. Hopefully it isn't common, which is why I'm asking. Maybe I just got a dud bulb. I was having trouble in the beginning with one flicking off and on and then it seemed to be fine. Maybe that bulb was doomed from the start.

 

i have hanabi 6k which one side flickers a little but i think its my installation. I never seen that happened. It cant be your install cause it happened so much later. Did anything special happen to your car recently? water getting in somewhere etc.? never heard of that happening from nowhere.

 

i have never seen that before.

looks like the bulb melted.

give me a call later (after 2pm) 201-993-3633

before i saw this i replied to your pm.

 

I guess this is why people on HIDforum tell everyone to stay away from these inferior kits. When I had Hanabis, I never had that problem.

 

These are Hanabi's buddy

 

hey in your sig pic......are those aftermarket bulbr in yout taillights? just wondering

 

The bulb went thats all, happens to kits but it only happened to one of them I ever sold.

 

except I never had Hanabi, I stick to the good ****

 

this is my second set of hanabi and they have worked great for me. (second because of choice not cause of failure to work)

and what would u consider "good ****" out of curiosity?

 

Thats your call man, Hanabi "IS" actually better then some of the other brand just not the best IMO.

What I consider "good ****" is brands like Phillips/Ultinon, Osram, Catz, Hella, Bosch & Valeo projectors.

 

Wow that looks bad!

 

that happend to the top part of one of my bulbs and i found out that he metal thing in the headlight (4th gen) was touching the bulb and it was burning. The whole headlight was smoking...so i jus put my finger in their a bent the metal thing. All fine now...

 

 

with mine just one of the colors went. Did that happen to you as well or did it just go out.

 

I think Hanabi is crap, and it took me 2 kits tor realize that. My first one, one of the ballast went bad, and caused the bulb to turn green. The second kit, one of the bulbs went with the starter. So now, I'm going to get some dual projectors going, with a reliable HID kit.

 

^ Ok, what is the absolute best plug and play HID kit on the market? (Still available.. since the Catz is no longer sold apparently) I want something very reliable and not too colorful. It seems like a rebased phillips bulb + panasonic ballasts are very good, but I'm having a hard time finding a kit.

 

The hanabis s*ck. I just bought a used set off of another member and first the starter blew so I went and got a new starter. Now that i got a new starter the ballast is no good. Turns out the ballast messed up the starter. Now I gotta buy a new starter and its gonna cost me almost 90$. I dont know if its worth the money. I have the 5500 kit.

 

If you have some patience to do a project...and like projectors. You can still get Valeo projectors, with Phillips 4300K bulbs and hella ballasts That combo looks sweet IMO but its not something for a novice to attempet. You have to hack apart your headlights The only thing about the 4th gens is the glare issue, the headlights are designed in such a way thats just spits light all over.

You can get Phillips kits from Ebay as well

What you DO NOT want is a beam that looks like these...

One
This 1 is great, LOL
Here is another disaster
Now THIS is just weird...HID shades...

 

why not try the k2 system

 

what did i tell u?

 

wow those beam patterns suck.. its not like that in my max...

looks like you may have bent the metal piece of the bulb after the inspection, maybe by accident, you never know.. if it was working before the inspection then i say its probably accidental.i am going on 4 months and i use it every day when i drive at night.

 

does yours look like 2 big splats on the wall?

 

no they dont actually.. i do have a cut off of mines.. let me see if i can find a pic of hids on a 3rd gen.. i think N34JZ has one when he got his hids

 

you do understand what a "cutoff" is right?

there should be a very distinct line where the light stops. show me if see that line in your kit.

 

ok well there is a blatch... but not like the ones in pic 2 where is just two huge cirlces.. but belive me there is a cut off .. i know what it is.. i'll ask jay to take a pic... but the ones in pic 2 are just horrible...

 

jays on the road....

 

This is what the cutoff should look like......

 

c'mon deezo...I KNOW you can get a better beam pattern pic. get a DOT Hella H9 pic.

 

How's this.....

 

 

EDIT: DOT - not E-code...didn't look past the fence...LOL

Izzy - now THIS IS A CUT OFF! show me that on yours or Jason's car.

 

3rd gen housing will never project that kind of beam pattern... never.. i will not even attempt.. just saying my hids arent like pic 2..lol

 

wanna explain that to me?

 

wait til i get pics... i'll take them after the meet in valley stream

 

meet is at 11am..no?
are you going to make a solar eclipse? or are you going to stay that late?

 

In our housings, there will never be a cutoff like that unless you cover part of the lense. The best we can do is reduce the glare. On my Catz Hi/Lo kit, the bolbs come with sheilds that reduce glare and focus the beam rather than release tons of glare.