#Halogen vs hid cutof mod

The argument over LED vs HID car lights is a hot topic of debate in the automobile industry. LEDs and HIDs are progressively taking over the market with more brightness & durability than conventional halogen headlights. I've thought about doing that myself.Car headlight technology has evolved a lot in the last decade or so.

You could always run bulbs with 2500k to 3000k color temp, it would boost fair weather output ever so slightly but it would be a big improvement in foul weather. You really do want to maintain a reasonable balance. Again, though, bear in mind the brighter your foreground is illuminated the harder time you'll have noticing things in the distance. You'd lose your fogs but let's be real, they suck anyway. Otherwise, if you're going to do a retrofit I'd go ahead and get bixenon projectors.Īnother option for added output, you could add mini bixenon (or regular) projectors to the fog lights. Thankfully the STI has pretty solid high beams. There's still the risk of something running into your path from the darkness but all in all I feel a lot safer with good lighting. Twenty years ago no one would believe how fast you could safely drive down a dark road at night. I always say I'd rather spend 500ish bucks on a retrofit now than possibly slam into wildlife (or a pedestrian) and end up with thousands in damage. If you're going to drive at night outside of the city, it's well worth it. I agree, I spent hundreds on retrofits even when I didn't have money to do anything else. retrofit with a true projector when you can I was just trying to share some of my limited knowledge, although I should of went into more detail on my first post.īottom line. Not trying to deliberately go against you, as I do agree with you, and I am still learning. Not on a TSX though, I guess Acura doesn't cheap out on real projectors. I have BMW friends who changed their OEM HID to 6000k and it feels like they have their high beams on. 6000k+ is where it glares, unless you buy a good aftermarket projector. Although I agree that true AFTERMARKET projectors will provide a true clean cut, but halogen projectors minus spotters are no where like a reflector housing, with 4300k they don't glare any more than OEM HID projectors.

#Halogen vs hid cutof mod

On my mom's Lexus however has huge squirrel spotters in the halogen projectors, THAT I would retrofit or the very least mod the spotter. So my thoughts are, if it's the same as another OEM HID, I don't see the point of me spending more on retrofitting especially when my car doesn't have squirrel spotters that I can see. I have a base Canadian STi that I put HIDs in, I compared it to my sister's GTI which came with HID from factory, the cut off is the exact same, and colour surprising enough. The cutoff is quite horrendous, you will not be getting much more light output for the money you spent, and generally those $30 HID kits off eBay are not the greatest and won't last a long time. I do not suggest simply ordering a HID kit for your halogen projectors and shoving the HID bulbs in there. Retrofitting can be done several ways, but the easiest for someone with less experience would be to get the Retro Quick kit from TheRetrofitSource for our cars Retro-Quik: Subaru Impreza (06-12) - Complete Retrofit Kits IF you want to get HID in your projector, I suggest one of TWO things.ġ) Find a set of HID OEM STI healights to swap out for your halogen headlightsĢ) Retrofit your current headlights. Now, to answer your question BASE model STI's (non-sport-tech) in CANADA came with HALOGEN projector headlights. We are not talking about a honda civic here, it's a 40k car. Putting HID's in halogen-designed projectors is not an effective way of completing the project and it can be unsafe/produce all kinds of glare. Guys, please be careful giving advice if you are not sure about the lights.