eBay Xenon kits

[RoadworkUK]

If you are the flange who passes me every day on the A12, in an N-Reg Nissan QX 3.0(yes, really) with bright green cheapola Mongolian HID lamps dazzling anybody in your path, it is my opinion that you drive like your name is Charlie and you wear a Uniform in November while drinking Tango.

 

Seriously. A pox on anybody who has bought a set of £46 HID bulb conversions and thinks it makes their Citroen Saxo or frigging Renault Trafic look "mad legit". They look shit, they blind people and they make you look like somebody who has just spent £46 on eBay.

[fordperv]

Well i wont press buy it now then haha what really makes me laugh is when u see the owners flash main beam and the lights go off as a lot of the cheapy ching chong kits only work for low beam

[wuvvum]

True, but then some "legit" Xenon setups do the same thing - my last 166 had Xenons, but only for dipped beam - main beam was standard halogen.

[RoadworkUK]

BMW and Merc used to use HID for low beam and halogen for full, they now have "Bi-Xenon" which employs a little flap that shuts down over half the beam for dip, and then un-flaps for full beam.

 

I met a chap on a forum once who fitted HIDs to his front fogs too.

 

Aftermarket kits are tolerable when fitted to projector-type headlamps, but are horrible when you stick them behind an old-style prismatic headlamp glass.

[Geep]

I have considered HID kits for the Fronty but keep getting put off by comments like these. Some people swear by them, others swear at them.

 

Without going to the extreme ends of the scale, (blue/purple output) are they really a no no? I know the latest MOT regs include a bit about HID's fitted being a fail if not originally fitted but is the main problem the cheap kits? Why is a cheap kit worse than the expensive kit? The bulb must be similar, it fits in the same place in the headlamp. What makes it crap?

 

For the same money you could get PIAA bulbs but are they really that good?

[fiatdaft]

as those new mot rules are impending,i'm only to fit them to my front fogs from now on,they do make a huge difference.

[Rusty Pelican]

I could be wrong here but I though that HID kits have to have HID specific reflectors and glass , sticking them in lights designed for halogen headlights is illegal because the beam patterns wrong

[Geep]

I could be wrong here but I though that HID kits have to have HID specific reflectors and glass , sticking them in lights designed for halogen headlights is illegal because the beam patterns wrong

 

That's what I understood, although I believe some cars are worse than others for this. I have heard of people changing the lens for clear ones on Omegas when fitting HID's. Many people also seem to use them fine with standard lens on their cars so again it seems a grey area.

[bangers & mash]

Are these smd bulbs legal?

 

 

Weirdest headlamp bulb I've ever seen.

[fiatdaft]

you need glass lenses , headlamp washers and self levelling i'm sure to be completely legal.

[Father Ted]

Are these smd bulbs legal?

 

 

Weirdest headlamp bulb I've ever seen.

Probably. Light output, spectrum and spread will probably be cat wank