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heylo all .

i recently just brought an after market projector headlamps for my 2001 sedan civic.
my hid's are towards whitish/purplish (8000k i think)
when i installed these hid's to the projectors, the hids gave me a yellow shade just as any normal bulbs would do . but when i changed the hids to the normal headlights , it gave me purplish.

i then asked the shop keeper and he told me tht the colour of the lens was yellow thts y i gave yellow colour. and then he showed me his evo 7 which had the same thing (purple on start up ) (and bcame yellow after a while).

i have seen Honda accords with purple shades on their projectors does this mean they have a purple lens :S ? how can i get this purple lens plz help

p.s= the projectors i have are from some SONAR company .
thanks

 
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1. Are you sure they're HIDs?
2. Have you thought about a retrofit? This involves swapping the actual projector unit with something from another OEM (i.e. Audi A4/S4 projectors, BMW 3 series projectors).
3. The projectors shouldn't have any tint on them, AFAIK. Maybe Sonar tints them to make them appear to be purple from onlookers/traffic facing you.

 
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I've installed Sonar projectors before - they're just headlight assembly replacement, definitely not meant for HID.

 
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8000k is pure blue.

 
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yea i didnt know the colour of my hid thts y i said i think its 8000k.
well the colour of my hid is called as Dimond white. which has a little shade of purple and white.

is there any DIY for retrofit?
i guess i will install the hid in high beam and install some blue bulbs in my low beam (projectors) ...

but thts not wat i wanted . i wanted it to b the other way round

 
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http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=166

^ Thats a DIY for reflective based headlights..

Since you have projectors, I suggest looking around the internet too see posts on how others did it...

A really good website to check out how some are done is,

www.hidretro.com

Good Luck