HID's installed! but now problems!
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HID's installed! but now problems!
Hey, I just installed my mculloch hid kit yesterday and they look great.
i got a 5000k kit and all is well.
now i have a huge problem with glare. the light reflects off all the chome lines and stuff is basically im lighting upto the tops of garage doors.
aim lower?
blackhouse?
how?
help!!
i got a 5000k kit and all is well.
now i have a huge problem with glare. the light reflects off all the chome lines and stuff is basically im lighting upto the tops of garage doors.
aim lower?
blackhouse?
how?
help!!
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first mistake: you bought a kit. second mistake: you bought mculloch.
for now, i would suggest you aim them lower. you're going to be pissing off a lot of people.
for now, i would suggest you aim them lower. you're going to be pissing off a lot of people.
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Rep Power: 435 mculloch has the highest fail rate and no customer support from what i have heard. kits are bad to buy because they are "universal" and we all know that universal products will never perform 100%. also, the kit companies are just out for money. they don't care about glare or useable light.
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Originally Posted by infinite012
for now, i would suggest you aim them lower. you're going to be pissing off a lot of people.
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Rep Power: 812 lol the glare won't go away. Thats from the crappy kit. When I had my catz kit, I had hardly any glare. The best way is to retrofit or just go back to halogen. You'll get pulled over sooner or later anyway since they're illegal.
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Originally Posted by gearbox
lol the glare won't go away. Thats from the crappy kit. When I had my catz kit, I had hardly any glare. The best way is to retrofit or just go back to halogen. You'll get pulled over sooner or later anyway since they're illegal.
wait wait wait...H.I.D. is illegal? or am i reading wrong? or please explain? cuz I want to do H.I.D as well on my '01 sedan...want to look into a phillips kit if there is one...Not trying to hijack thread btw... just looking for clarification....
god my spelling sucks....
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Rep Power: 812 lol where have you guys been? Its been illegal to put hid on a car that doesn't have them from the factory for over a year now. You can get away with doing an expensive retrofit, where basically you take an oem hid bulb and projector and stick it in some projector lights. So it looks just like the real car it came from. Those kits where you just put hid bulbs in are dangerous and way too much glare. But yeah its been illegal. Vendors aren't even supposed to be sellin em but I guess they can say its for offroad use only.
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Rep Power: 812 I'm not sure if this helps, but some people put eyelids on that cover the top quarter of the headlight. Blacking them out won't really affect light output unless you paint the whole thing but then you'll have less light than halogen. Do your bulbs have a half-shield around them? If not you can get those online somewhere. They're called glare sheilds.
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Rep Power: 0 im not sure ill double check if they have the glare shields. if not ill buy them.
im not going to black out everything. just how they did it in the DIY.
and i dont like eyelids
im not going to black out everything. just how they did it in the DIY.
and i dont like eyelids
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Rep Power: 0 i just aimed them lower. its MUCH better
i was driving up and down a bunhc of streets and no one hibeams me anymore
my friends who drive around me now tell me that im not blinding them anymore so thats good.
i was driving up and down a bunhc of streets and no one hibeams me anymore
my friends who drive around me now tell me that im not blinding them anymore so thats good.
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