Hid Or Better Bulbs

[Trough Lolly]

blue visions are ok bang for buck, but they tend to pop pretty regularly... know this from both my cars had them as did a mates, we were regularly replacing globes every 8-12 months due to a popped one.

Ended up getting philips crystal visions for $37 on ebay, now run these in all my cars & bike and havent had a problem!

[bossmang]

my previous cars had HID's, decided against them this time in the FG, I also replaced all the globes with the crystal visions. 4300K. I dont care too much with producing more light, I just hate the yellow look.

[Wenier]

Philips Diamond Vision 5000K are the go. Philips halogen bulbs good prices

[Phoontastic]

HIDs suck balls in the factory lenses. I've just removed mine as the light output was crap. Very little penetration and too much spread (don't go there). Having gone back to the halogens which are much more focused, the difference is huge and so much better. For anyone contemplating going to HIDs, don't waste your money.

[dule]

You will also be doing everyone else a favour by not burning their eyes with your non focused HIDs. They just don't work with factory headlights.

[Emosh99]

Here are my thoughts on the matter;

In last 5 years of getting my hands on 'cheap china hids' through my mate who imports them, I have had them on 3 different cars, a skyline with factory projectors, nb mx5 with 'normal', and a Expensive Daewoo rodeo again with 'normal' headlights.

Yes, the projector is definitely more 'focused' but with the other two you simply adjust the headlights so they are facing the groud a little more. This way you do not blind on coming traffic, but having said that, you can still see way better then any other non hid globe.

Street signs are visible from a mile away, more confident night time driving, wild life in the hills and rocks on the great ocean road can been seen at a much earlier time. I have yet to see a non bid type globe even compare to the luminance you gain from HIDs.

Reliability? In the 4 years and 3 completely different sets of balasts/globes I ran, only one balast in the mx5 let go. This happened 2 times on the same side which later turned out to be incorrect voltage been sent to the balast (the day I purchased the car that side globe burnt out, I then knew why).

That's 6 globes and 6 balasts that never had a fault of their own.

Wrecking the lens myth: our cars cop the Aussie sun for years and years and what's the worst that happens? A slight discolor that is only starting to appear on bas, a simple polish and they will look new again. The internals are no different, they are a sealed unit that if anything cops less environmental effects then the outside of the headlight. Yes HIDs do warm up but no they don't 'burn' or discolor the inside of the headlight.

When I say they heat up, I mean they are warm, not boiling/to hot to touch.

There are different versions of balasts available, but go for the slimmer version which are a digital transformer. they are also duel balast versions so you can run hid normal/hi or hid normal/foggies which I prefer, but that all depends on the frequency of hi beam use.

6000k is my preferred range, not too blue, not to dull, makes the car look like it's worth more then it really is at night time.

The whole 'don't flick them on or off too quick' pretty much means don't flash them like a disco light, they will be fine to run under 'auto' mode as the relays time delay wont be quick enough to damage the globe.

One annoying thing to note (in the non digital tranny versions) is yes, some time one glove doesn't turn on, I'm my experience this only happened when you would stall the car and start it again with the healights already on. Now our cars in 'auto' mode keep them on before you start them up, will this cause one headlight to not turn on? I dont know, haven't got around to buying a set for my bf. If they do, honestly how hard is it to flick it off auto and back on again?

Again, these are my experiences with HIDs.

[Emosh99]

Argh please excuse the grammar and typos, damn iPhones!!

[hawlass]

Scooby, I have just bought a full set of the same bulbs,they are 4300k, the bloke I bought from does free shipping,ex England. Genuine German Phillips. Didnt realize the fg uses H11's for foggies, but heres the link for H11's to match yours.-

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-PHILIPS-crystal-vision-4300k-white-headlight-bulb-H11-/270630583348?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3f02d6fc34

[Adam]

I just put Philips X-Treme +100% H4 60/55W Lows & H7 55W Highs.

I got them off ebay seller name blingwork for $69.99 posted as they are not avail yet from Autobarn(only X-Treme +80% are avail from there)

They're at Autobarn now for $69.99 a set. They're in the latest catalogue.

I just brought some of Ebay for $45 a set delivered.

[Adam]

Just put these in tonight.

Heaps brighter than the original globes. Well worth the upgrade IMO.