I'm driving tonight and it starts to rain.....at first i thought i forgot to turn on my headlights....but they were on!!! i just put in nokya hyperwhite bulbs and they are dim as hell......i have had about 5 pairs but these are the worst yet......i want the hid look but really don't want to sacrafice safety and vision......what do you guys recommend short of emax's hid conversion???

 

 

Get an overwattage harness and pop in some 80/100W bulbs.

 

i know what you mean..i got nokyas too. and when it rains its like i have nothing on. sometimes if the streets are too dark(no light poles) it gets scary...

 

Get Eurolites...they're pretty bright.

 

I think this is true even with stock lights, the water reflects the light in wierd directions when it rains so it will appear like your light arent even on.

Adam

 

Man, you have to be one of the VERY few people that like Eurolites... they are well, pretty crappy lights.

-Shing

 

I don't like Euro light either. Here's a list of headlights I tried. Nokya, Eurolites, Cool Blues, JC Whitny Xenon. I rank eurolites to be on the bottom of the list. I'm running 80w/100w JC whitny Xenon and they are fine in the rain.

 

HID lookalike bulbs suck...why sacrafice your vision just so your headlights look cool? not to mention they look nothing like HID's.

 

I agree, I would not get the cheap HID look-a-likes, but what is a reasonably priced way to upgrade your lighting system?

[Edited by Krioni on 11-06-2000 at 09:58 PM]

 

so if i get the upgraded harness what brand of lights would give me the hid look and still light the road?

 

I've got the Hiper industries 80/100 watt Xenon charged bulbs on stock harnesses...been in for almost a year and no problems...my 100 watt H-3's burned out in 3 months...so I went back to 55 watts for them...plenty bright enough...no problems seeing in the rain, especially with the driving lights on...

 

how much should i expect to pay for these? the reason I ask is because I have never paid for bulbs in my life

 

n/m

 

not gonna happen. you can't have your cake and eat it LOL

just stick with the bulbs that worked the best (whitest light.. no blue tint) and use PIAA 55 watt bulbs in the fog light housing.

 

none! no halogen bulb will come close to the HIDs. Don't bother trying to get the HID "look" because you'll sacrifice your lighting.

 

It has been pouring in Phoenix the last three weeks, and I have had my Nokya Arctic Whites in for about four months now, and I have NEVER had a problem with them. Wonder what is happenning to yours...
E-mail me back, I can relay this message back to SPW (who makes Nokya)
Alex

 

Uh, you might want to yank that dead deer off the front of yer car before you go and buy new bulbs...! J/K :-)

 

Super Whites. They are the Stock wattage but are twice as bright. people flash me all the time because they think I have my brights on. ONly problem is they are kind of expensive. ~$65-70.

 

That means you need to reaim them... for some reason i've noticed that changing bulbs sometimes requires reaiming...

 

the head lights?

 

there are these little wheel circle things next to each headlight and u just turn it... depending on the direction you turn it makes the whole headlight higher or lower... its good to go up to a wall like 10 feet away and adjust the lights against the wall... or also you can go into a dark alley and adjust it there... see how they are in the distance.. like 40 feet compare to the original bulbs... i know when i put my hiper white bulbs in i had to adjust it a little... i left one bulb stock and one i changed i adjusted the changed bulb to the stock one and then i changed the other stock to the hiper white and adjusted it to the first one... it was pretty easy to do in my driveway with the headlights on reflecting off my garage door...

 

light... it's the ones closest to the midline of the car...

 

I'm not trying to sound arrogant, but if you put 45Watts in...you'll get that much light out. PIAA is good at false advertising. They claim 85W of light from 45W. SWs put out whiter light...not more light.

And if people are flahsing you, it's because the HB1 lamps that Maximas use put out the worst beam pattern...a problem now compounded by the fact that your lamps probably need to be re-aimed.