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I have been reading about HID kits and retros. I plan on adding HID to my 2004 Honda civic with a 9006 bulb size, since I do a good amount of night-time driving. Doing a retro is to expensive so i was looking at making my own kit. I was thinking about buying ballasts, D2R bulbs and an wirring kit.

Do you think it would be best to follow that route or just buy a kit? Also the highest i will go is 6000K. If you think making my own kit would be best could you tell me a complete list parts and what ballest and bulbs you would use?

Thanks,
Chris

 
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well you're not going to be able to fit hte d2r into the 9006 socket...and going with higher than 4100k will jack up your price a hell of a lot more than you would expect.

http://www.hidplanet.com/package.html go there and buy one of their OEM "kits." it comes with ballasts, bulbs, ballast covers.

 
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^^ he knows what hes talking about...listen to him...

 
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yes infinite is good with lighting...i think im gonna go with a premade kit than just sell it when i do my retro... www.hidplanet.com is a good website for stuff even if u dont want to retro

 
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I have another question. What would be involved for doing a reflector based HID retrofit, for example the ballast and bulbs from an IS300. WHat parts would I need?

 
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the IS300 reflector bowl.

 
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i don't think its worth it to do a reflector retrofit. If your going to do a retrofit just use projectors. Projectors will probably be easier to get and give you a better cutoff then the reflector based hids.

 
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I have D2R's in my OEM housings

 
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how'd u do that rufus?

 
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I I took my oem headlights and used wire clippers to cut the tiny tac welds off of the bezel around the bulb and then dremeled it out so that I could fit the d2r bulb in it's place. This was a year ago. Check ebay. Now they sell adapters for about 40 machined out of aluminum

 
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