High Wattage Bulbs/Xenons/HID's

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I am trying to change the entire light scheme on my car. I've searched the forums and gathered as much info as I can but I still have questions.

Firstly I have an 03 with factory HID's and I need opinions and advice.

For Fogs....
If I were to put HID's say from LSKoncepts in my fogs, would it cast more light than factory bulbs? I dont just want a color change I'd like them to cast more light making the road more visible. I would like to try and avoid spending $300 on a set of HID's that only look good but don't perform.
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Put possibly 65watt, H10's, 2500K yellows in there. If I were to go with 80watt 9005's in the fogs that'd be too much I assume....Could I get a plug and play wire harness to handle the extra wattage.

For High Beams...
120Watt, 9005, 7000K's. Would I need a harness for this too? I absolutely dont want HID's in my highs. I'd just like something that will cast more light.
http://www.eautoworks.com/html/ORD-1-1-1-2660.cfm
These are only $19.95...this seems like a good deal to me except if I'll end up paying in the long run.

I am not concerned about legality or other drivers as I don't plan on having my highs on for oncoming drivers and will only have fogs on in bad weather or low visibilty and I understand yellow is good for this?

I think I've searched as well as I can on here and google.
Any opinions, reccomendations, comments? Thanks :feedback
 
Glanga, I cant help you with this but isnt this exactly what you posted before but in different words?
 
thanks for the useless waste of time comment....no its not...i did a lot more research and im asking about different bulbs and different setups and that was under an LED post after i put those in. Im asking about headlight and fogs now
 
giving what feedback? i dont really need your opnion if it in no way helps me or anyone else. its not positive or negative its just useless. hell id appreciate negative feedback more
 
But I didnt give a opinion, I gave a fact. you have posted this before in another thread and no one gave it attention so you have to take up more space by re posting part of that thread in other words.

Thats cool, I just asked.

Oh and it wasted your time but you wasted more time by going to my low level and replying not just once to the stupid comment I made but now 2 times you gave feedback to my comments that you dissagree with.

Thats all, bye bye.
 
I have an 01 with 03 fogs and in the fogs are Luminics yellow fogs light bulbs. I have a set of 4300K HIDs from ken for the lows, and they are bright enough to I only see a faint outline of yellow when they are on, so if you have the factory HIDS you wont get much help from the yellows, but they do look good and I get TONS of compliments, ill try ot get a pic for oyu if you want.... the fogs throw a lot of light but the HIDS cancel them out.

WHen I swaped to 03's there was a significant loss in output of light. THe 00-02 fogs housings DEF threw more light because of their housing structure. You may want to think about swapping in a set of those.

I have alos tried the HOEN Xenon match bulbs for the fogs, and for the saem reason as the yellows it was hard to see a difference they made, but they did look liek HIDS.

I have been tempted to put the set of 9005 HIDS i have lying around into the fogs since the harness is the same, but they are 12000K and thats way to high of a rating to produce efficient light, i just got them for show.

Theres my response, le tme know if you want pics....
 
One more thing, WHen i had the original fog light housings that were all clear, I use silverstars. These I could have on by themselves and woudl light up the road fine. Granted I had the fogs aimed up pretty high but still, VERY NICE.

im done now
 
yeah sure pics would be great, ive seen the hoen all weathers but i guess the 2500 luminics and nokya are a deeper yellow, love to see pics. also why dont you just buy new hid bulbs, less K and put those in your fogs. I have silverstars in my fogs now and i didnt notice any difference from stock halogens.

also what wattage are the bulbs you have in your fogs. you said you have 9005's in there or are they the capped H10's???

I want the 7000k highs for the color, light output, and because it has the nice blue reflection in the housing when theyre off which is why i am askign about those. QuikLS has them but i dont think his are 120watt which is what im worried about
 
the 12000K kit i have is from ebay, and seems ok so far. I want it for the highs. I dont know what wattage the fogs are i think 55w and they are 9005, going over req wattage is never a good idea. Friend of mine found that out the hard way. Last thing you want is an electrical fire. No bueno. Higher wattage wont neccesarily get you better vision either, not in all cases at least. Its all about color and aiming. everyhting above about 5000K isnt that useful regarding HIDS. There was a big thread a while ago about how all those "ricer" bulbs the HID lookalikes arent making the road brighter but giving an illusion that its birghter. So yeha the blueish whit ecolor is more appealing but not improving anything.Thats why silverstars and such are highly rated cuz they dont have 8000K temps. But to each his own.

No no-dose for me! I will be up late studying for ECON, but i will try to get you some pics of how the yellow light is thrown glanga.
 
glanga said:
I am trying to change the entire light scheme on my car. I've searched the forums and gathered as much info as I can but I still have questions.

Firstly I have an 03 with factory HID's and I need opinions and advice.
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Ok your 03 with factory HID's should have H11 in the highs and 9145 in the fogs.... unless you have the LSE.
For Fogs....
If I were to put HID's say from LSKoncepts in my fogs, would it cast more light than factory bulbs? I dont just want a color change I'd like them to cast more light making the road more visible. I would like to try and avoid spending $300 on a set of HID's that only look good but don't perform.
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Typically yes HID will produce more lumens than standard halogen bulbs (given the same kelvin value). If you increase or reduce the kelvin temperature you will reduce the lumen output of the light... which may now be lower or greater than the stock halogen bulbs.

Put possibly 65watt, H10's, 2500K yellows in there. If I were to go with 80watt 9005's in the fogs that'd be too much I assume....Could I get a plug and play wire harness to handle the extra wattage.
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The stock H10/9145 in the fogs are rated at 45 watts. Putting a higher wattage bulb in there will produce more current flow in the wire as well as more heat in the housing (possibly melting it). You would have to replace quite a bit of wiring and in no case should you put a 80 watt bulb in the fogs.

For High Beams...
120Watt, 9005, 7000K's. Would I need a harness for this too? I absolutely dont want HID's in my highs. I'd just like something that will cast more light.
http://www.eautoworks.com/html/ORD-1-1-1-2660.cfm
These are only $19.95...this seems like a good deal to me except if I'll end up paying in the long run.
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Again same principle as the fogs. If you run too high a wattage you run the risk of melting the headlight housing or the wiring leading to it. 120 watt bulb gets very hot, much hotter than the stock 55 watt! I dont see why you need such high output in your highs anyway. Did you know the low beams (HID in your case) stay on with the highs? This being the case all you really need to do is color match (kelvin temperature) the highs to the HID lows. The HID's will produce a lot of light. IF this is still not enough for you put some switchable lights on the LS in the lower grill area... you know, the kind you see on off road trucks.:rolleyes:

I am not concerned about legality or other drivers as I don't plan on having my highs on for oncoming drivers and will only have fogs on in bad weather or low visibility and I understand yellow is good for this?

I think I've searched as well as I can on here and google.
Any opinions, reccomendations, comments? Thanks :feedback
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I would think one of NJ's finest would be concerned with the legality of it all. After all wouldn't you ticket someone using defective (or altered) equipment? Does NJ have annual vehicle inspections? We don't here in AR but in MO we did. They can be quite thorough (not like CA though).

There's my 2¢.....
 
appreciate that input a lot..... I understand what your saying. I have seen different websites and different people tell me its h11 and 9005 for the highs. I'll probably end up putting something around 5-6000k in the highs. and the 2500k 45-55watt in the fogs. also if i put the uncapped 9005 in the fogs that wouldnt cast more light right? just more glare than puttin 9145's

no im not an officer. my dad is a former major and troob b commander. I personally am still in college. the reason i dont care if they are legal is because no one except me and my passengers will see them. i dont plan on flashing my high beams at the local police. whether people on here agree or disagree with it i have plenty of the "get out of jail free" cards or whatever the hot thing to call them now is.

New jersey inspection is every 2 years?? i think and 4 years on new cars
 
i dont know if anyone has ever heard this either but i read somwhere else that silverstars are pretty cheap crap, ive never had a problem with them burning out, they are ok, i dont find them much brighter just a different whiter color....anyway from what i hear they are not much more well made than cheap japanese or chinese bulbs. maybe the fiberglass/plastic casing they have at the base but that has nothing to do with the bulb. they are marketed towards blue collar workers whose headlight will blow out, theyll stop at pep boys or advance on their way home from work, see the "premium" advertising and pick them up thinking they are something great.
 
silver stars go yellow very quick.

But um as far as the Japanese crap and getting what you paid for... Glanga budy, most of the electronics these days are made there anyway.
 
no i said that you get what you pay for about the chinese crap, i like the japanese and american crap, not the chinese crap...that was hid conversions


for the silverstar comment there are cheap japanese bulbs and good ones all over on ebay
 
You won't get much more light from fogs since you have HIDs for low beams already.

I went from 01 headlight with Silverstars, then Hoen to 03+ HID and HID is a way to go. I can't even tell when my fogs are on, and I'm running HOEN bulbs in there to match color of the HIDs.
 
I hate those damn HID's, I like beeing on the offenseive side but running defense makes me swerve at those people that make me think they are high beaming me..


No offense guys.
 
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