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Where can I get the brightest handlamps possible so I too can be like all the new luxury cars with the Super White Annoying lights...
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A quality hid kit, even in the factory housings, work great. A crappy hid kit is worse than the factory bulbs.IMHO the OEM and aftermarket headlights buckets are not engineered to be used with HID lights. Most of these kits just replace the bulb with a HID one. If you look at a vehicle with factory HIDs, notice how the headlight buckets are made.
I had HIDs on my truck and took them off. The HID beam was scattered and could not be focused/aimed.
IMHO you're wasting your money with HIDs and factory headlight buckets. Get yourself a headlight harness to apply full voltage to the headlights and your choice of halogen bulbs.
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Negatory on that one. If you change the focal point of the light source and/or the shape of light point, you change everything.The stock housings are designed to put light out. Period. You can use halogens, hids, candles, glow sticks, or pixies for all I care. Its still light.
Its going to focus what ever light you put in them the same way.
What your going to see different with the different light sources is areas showing up that normally you might not see because of the light not being as bright from one source to another. Just because you change whats making the light it isn't going to bend in some new fangled direction.
Unfortunately, the manufacturers that make the D1R, D2R, D1S, D2S, and 9500 HIDs, make them to go specifically into projector applications. It is folks that buy them and try to adapt them to replace standard halogen bulbs that neglect the focal points for the mirror or lens applications. Thus a blurry or out of focus light will create more extraneous light than the standard DOT projector pattern. You are correct, the color does not affect focus, but the color does produce more glare.Thats true if the bulb dimensions are off the final point will be in a different location. But a given light at a given point does not change because the light source type changes. So light wave lengths do not change the way the light is reflected. Thats been my gripe with the way people have listed the differences all along. Also its not going to cause it to glare more. The worse its going to do is cause the destination of the light to change if the position of the light source moves. Type of light has no effect what so ever.
Not much light throw if you ask me ..got them aimed so low whats the point.The stock housings are designed to put light out. Period. You can use halogens, hids, candles, glow sticks, or pixies for all I care. Its still light.
Its going to focus what ever light you put in them the same way.
What your going to see different with the different light sources is areas showing up that normally you might not see because of the light not being as bright from one source to another. Just because you change whats making the light it isnt going to bend in some new fangled direction.
In figures 1 here we have low beam hids in stock housings.
Notice the PERFECT line where the light stops. Try studying the picture and see if you can find light bleed over problems that would bother on coming traffic.
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Now if figure 2 we have the same everything formula wise as figure 1 except this is in the high beam setting.
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Wheres the glare? Wheres the light bending effects?