xenon light

TA · Post by TA » Sat Dec 27, 2008 9:18 am

hey guys, ive been looking on ebay to buy a xenon conversion kit in my FTO, but have no idea bout the sizing or what i shld purchase.
There's like slimline conversion kits etc etc... does anyone know what i should be looking at?
cheers

Post by **vipfto** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:30 pm

as long as they are HB4 for normal lights
HB3 for high beam

TA · Post by TA » Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:11 am

.... interesting so i couldnt just get xenons for te normal lights and leave the others as they are? the high beam ones...>?

and should i go for 12000k?

zuihoujueding · Post by **zuihoujueding** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:09 am

is theres such thing as 12000k?

Post by **BorepYano** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:59 am

TA wrote:.... interesting so i couldnt just get xenons for te normal lights and leave the others as they are? the high beam ones...>?

and should i go for 12000k?

certainly can, and i'd recommend doing this anyway, since HID take a few secs to charge up, it's going to be useless unless you do a lot of night time driving in the middle of no where, and even then, i dont think it's warranted apart from blinding on coming traffic from a mile and half away.

zuihoujueding wrote:is theres such thing as 12000k?

yup sure is, as far as i know it goes up to 16000k - pretty much purple (probably goes up further, but i can't be assed looking into this at 4am lol), and i think 4000 is yellowish, 10000 or 8000 (i can't remember what i got lol) is white with a slight tint of blue.

zuihoujueding · Post by **zuihoujueding** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:39 am

But isn't those are colors illegal?
5000K onwards is already white with a tint of blue. But you are talking about HID right? i see i see.

Post by **BorepYano** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:45 am

zuihoujueding wrote:But isn't those are colors illegal?
5000K onwards is already white with a tint of blue. But you are talking about HID right? i see i see.

xenon is the gas they use in HIDs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon good old wiki lol

and it's not so much that those colours are illegal, it's the fact that you have modified your headlights, and those colours are a dead give away

TA · Post by TA » Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:52 pm

oh haha hold on...
so doing this modification is illegal is it?

or am i allowed to do up to like 8000k?

and HID stands for?

nvr2low · Post by **nvr2low** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:24 am

i think all HIDS are illegal unless the car came out with them from factory eg the new mazdas and toyotas. HID stands for high intensity discharge

Post by **BorepYano** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:59 am

nvr2low wrote:i think all HIDS are illegal unless the car came out with them from factory eg the new mazdas and toyotas. HID stands for high intensity discharge

bingo
bingo
and bingo

with that said, i've yet to hear of anyone getting done for the HID lights yet
i've got mine in, and i reckon as long as you are not asking for trouble with 12000K or 16000K, or being an idiot in general you should be right

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:02 am

You can get road legal HID high beams. Just all low beam HID's are illegal except when factory.

xSlurpee · Post by **xSlurpee** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:05 am

i think the police's wont notice 8k's unless theyre angled too high

HID = having is defectamable

Post by **Bennoz** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:37 pm

The lumens chart!