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ndhonor

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I am thinking about using a HID conversion kit on my new 07 Silverado. Has anyone done this yet? If so, which brand and color temperature did you get? How is the brightness and color compared to factory bulbs? Thanks

tobias Senior Enthusiast

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Bought a set off ebay 80.00 got the 8000k love them!!!!

 

Much brighter than factory!!!!!

 

How long have you had them? Were they simply plug-and-play or was there additional wiring needed? Do you have any nighttime pics?

 

Daddy

tobias Senior Enthusiast

tobias

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Kit

 

Here is where i got them even cheaper now!!!!

 

And yes it definitely is a kit not just the blue bulbs!!!!

 

Yeah, I had gone and looked only after I had replied. Have since revised my comments.

 

Scary to trust something so cheap when they are so expensive on other sites but I would not be surprised if they were just extraordinarily overpriced on most of those sites as a lot of this stuff is.

 

Daddy

ndhonor Enthusiast

ndhonor

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Bought a set off ebay 80.00 got the 8000k love them!!!!

 

Much brighter than factory!!!!!

 

How long have you had them? Secondly I have heard that putting a conversion kit creates a more erratic light pattern. I know that the lights have a pretty nice cutoff line factory, did the cutoff line or pattern change when the HID were installed? Do you have any problems with them? How many times have you been flashed by on coming drivers? Thanks

SoCalChris Enthusiast

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are hid convertion kits legal to use?

 

Not unless they're DOT approved, which very few of them are. The ones that are DOT approved are usually several hundred dollars, and are only available for a few models.

 

How long have you had them? Secondly I have heard that putting a conversion kit creates a more erratic light pattern. I know that the lights have a pretty nice cutoff line factory, did the cutoff line or pattern change when the HID were installed? Do you have any problems with them? How many times have you been flashed by on coming drivers? Thanks

 

I've had a set of 6000Khid lights on my truck for about a year, and our van since we got it earlier this year. The light pattern is the same as the factory bulbs. There is a very nice cutoff. The only time I've had anyone flash their high beams at me was when I was returning from California with about 1,000 pounds of furniture in the bed, so the rear end was squatting down, causing the lights to point up. I do quite a bit of night driving on 2 lane undivided highways, with the exception of returning from California no one has flashed their lights at me in the year that I've had them.

 

I'm planning on switching my high beams to hids soon as well, I've been very happy with them.

VTSierra Enthusiast

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I'm planning on switching my high beams to hids soon as well, I've been very happy with them.

 

 

You might not want to change your high beams. HIDs do not like being turned on and off repeatedly. You will burn your bulbs out frequently. Also, there is a delay for HIDs to reach full brightness. This is why in OEM Bixenon applications they just move the low beams up. Or they have a shutter that moves the cutoff up when you turn the high beams on. They do not have seperate xenon bulbs that turn on and off for high beams.

 

But, if you are going to do it anyway, it would be interesting to hear what kind of luck you have.

SoCalChris Enthusiast

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I'm planning on switching my high beams to hids soon as well, I've been very happy with them.

 

 

You might not want to change your high beams. HIDs do not like being turned on and off repeatedly. You will burn your bulbs out frequently. Also, there is a delay for HIDs to reach full brightness. This is why in OEM Bixenon applications they just move the low beams up. Or they have a shutter that moves the cutoff up when you turn the high beams on. They do not have seperate xenon bulbs that turn on and off for high beams.

 

But, if you are going to do it anyway, it would be interesting to hear what kind of luck you have.

 

 

The driving situations I'm in, I will often have my high beams on constantly for the hour drive home. I'll usually only pass one car, if that once I'm on the back road to my house. I wouldn't recommend the high beam hids for most people though, for the reasons that you said.

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1qwikgtx

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Anything over 6000K is putting out way less useable light. 8000K & 10,000K is very blue or purple (which is fine I guess if you are putting HID's in strictly for looks). I switched from a 6000K kit to a 5300K kit which is much whiter light and allows me to see more at night with less eye fatigue.....

Doomsday Enthusiast

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Retro fit HID kits are a bad idea, not just for useable light, but beam pattern and many other things. We can really get into it but the smart thing to do is keep your stock set up and get some brighter bulbs if your having trouble seeing. If your doing this just for the look than that's a different story but know you are reducing your useable light, and displaying an improper pattern as well as other problems, if you know all of that and just have to have that bright annoying light than be my guest.

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