so i recently got my HIDs and i was wondering, how do you properly get the light to work.... i have read some things that totally dont make sense...

i dont want ot blind poeple i just wanted to know how to properly do this... does anyoneh have a good method?

oh btw im running stock housings still... no retrofit yet...

 

i'm assuming no retro...

 

yeah... just HID bulbs...

 

well if its just a plug and play hid bulb kit then i dont think you can. my friend has a hid kit on his rsx and he doesnt have a cut off but it looks good.

 

you can adjust with a bolt on the back... just dont know how high or how low its supposed to be

 

when you say looks good do you mean just insanely bright and blinding? with headlights like ours that have halogen reflectors it will have many hotspots and although it will be brighter, will not provide very useable light output. but then again, that's another thread...just try playing around with the bolt, it should help

 

there's no way you can effectively aim the stock headlight with hid kit to light up the road and not blind oncoming drivers at the same time. the stock headlight actually have a cut-off of sorts with stock 9006 bulb. but onces you stick a set of hid bulbs there it becomes a mess of glaring hot spots. if you aim the light low enough not to blind and glare, you'd only be lighting up a few feet in front of your car and defeats the purpose of buying a $300 lighting system.

its not worth the time and effort to persuade people away from hid kits anymore. its your money and do with it however you like. just try not to drive towards other people at night.

 

mm actually i used to have hid kit in my tc in the stock housing. The glare is actually not that bad. I had my friend drive his car towards mine and he said it wasnt that bad at all. I had it for about an yr and I never had anyone flash at me or anything. I'd say just put it in and have someone drive infront of u and towards you to see if theres any problems.

 

hrm... i think i got it to the point where im hitting hte bumper... imma either do a retrofit sometime or another or just get the umnitz(sp) when they come out... probably the latter cause im lazy.

 

so if the beam is hitting the bumper, doesnt that mean that the beam is only a few feet in front of u?? what kit did u end up getting? late- G

 

no no man. it was a car length ahead of me. and i got the f1 kit from 365 motorwerks. what a great kit... took like 30 min tops to install and its a great kit.

 

yea do u have the relay also? im actually meeting w/ zack in a few hrs to get myself one of them too.