Halogen vs hid images4/15/2024 I think I'll just see the road better than you.Īs we discussed in the censorship thread - I'm not one to doubt good scientific reasoning, but I still like to test it every now and then. If you like 'em and they work well for you, power to you - I won't mind seeing you on the road. That said, I don't think glare is much of an issue with 35W HIDs in H7 Projectors. However, they are still not quite as good as an equally bright halogen bulb in halogen-designed optics. They work very well (relatively speaking) as a straight across retrofit. H7 projector bulbs are nearly identical in location and shape to their HID counterpart. so they should be fairly comparable)Īs you may or may not have noticed - they are also through the windshield at eye level for the most accurate representation.Ĭlick to expand.Yes - the main issue I had with that install was that it was in a reflector, and demonstrated extra light that was going all over the dern place. I think you're probably better off with one or the other & personally, the lowbeams are the ones that make the most sense to me.Ĭomparison pics (these are all with no white balance, manual shutter, ISO, apeture, etc. With the 65W lowbeams, I can hardly tell the difference between stock & HIR's. The color is something that definitely helped though - the road no longer seems to soak the light - it's actually illuminated by it! Imagine that. They also seem to be slightly better focused and throw a *little* more light into the distance. They did not have *quite* as much blinding foreground lighting, although it is still a fair amount more than stock. Immediate thing I noticed about the 65 Osrams? Hrm, they are just as bright as the HID's. So, I got on the horn with Daniel Stern & ordered up some new bulbs: The color & light seemed to get soaked up by the road except the immediate area in front which was too bright. Sorry for waffling on and slightly off what the original post asked, but hope it helps someone.After driving a few thousand miles down to Texas & back, and across Montana in poor weather though, I was not loving the HID's much. But that said the brightest HIDs for the colour spectrum is between 3400k and 6500k any thing outside this range is pointless, but that's any individuals call.Ĭheck this link out gives you a bit more info though there's loads of web sites about all this, The best rating HIDs are 4800k 5000k or at worst 6000K which is just starting to go into the white spectrum, but to be safe and legal the factory 4300K replaced every few years would be best (saying that I have 5000ks in my TT was a big improvement on my fading Factory 4300k's). So the next time you get blinded by some idiot with a blue beam, probably means he's fitted after market HID kit to a normal Halogen Headlight with a bulb rating way too high in the colour spectrum for the human eye to see properly and its not improving his lighting at all. The higher K you go actually the Lumens go down and those bulbs are illegal and won't come with a legal E marking, after market kits and higher K bulbs are intended for off road use and will usually be sold to that effect. I'll put a list of the colours of HIDs but the higher you go doesn't mean a brighter bulb, it means the colour spectrum changes and turns whiter then blue onto purple and in fact What this also means is that if you fit a HID upgrade kit then strictly your breaking the law as it won't be self levelling (though you'd be pretty unlucky if you ever got picked up) The other problem with fitting HID kits is that a standard Halogen bulb headlight won't be directing the beam correctly (due to the reflector) as the beam comes off the Xenon bulb at a different point so you could in effect blind oncoming cars.Īs someone said the standard factory fit HIDS are 4300k, which can produce a slightly yellow look, and yes HIDS do deteriorate over time so its best to replace them every few years. Hi guys just a bit of help (if it's not too late), I've done a bit of research on this, a quick way to tell if you've got HIDS or Halogens is to check beside the Lights on switch if you have Halogen bulbs there will be a headlight level wheel, if there isn't one then you have HIDs, reason being that by law HID's must have auto self levelling and washers.
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