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when i purchase the HID kit for my car. What will i use D2R or D2S with stock headlight housing and someone was talking about using a casper shield? is the casper shield for use with the low beam housing? or will i have to use projectors?

 
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well putting hid in stock halogen housing is not good because they werent designed for the different shape and brightness of the hid bulb. the casper shield goes around the bottom part of the bulb holder to reduce glare to traffic, altho it will not solve the problem completely (but its better than none).

now about the bulbs types, d2r is made with shielding for use in hid reflector housing. the d2s bulb are not shielded and are used in hid projector housings where glare isnt as much of an issue. putting d2s in reflector will result in crazy glare. the casper shield helps this a little.

 
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hey gearbox i read ur answer and u didnt answer his question at all...for your car dpending on if its a 01-03 or 04-05 you will have to use a H4 (01-03) or 9006 (04-05) plug and play kit...in the 01-03s there will be a lot more glare than in a 9006 04-05 headlight housing...depending on the kit u get most kits for h4 now offer glare shields already on the bulbs but 9006 is without...but in most 9006 housing (esp 04-05s) there isnt that much glare...

d2s and d2r have no concern with ur stock headlights unless u do a HID projector or reflector retrofit...you can get rebased d2s bulbs or use d2s/d2r with a casper shield...i have a 6000k mcchulloch 9006 plug and play kit for sale for $200 or you can go to www.hidexpert.com and get some oem stuff for more...from my experience mcchulloch is the best kit out there outside of oem equipment

 
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I have D2R bulbs in my Civic. I had to aim my headlights lower than stock to reduce glare. The aftermarket lights, and IMO, projector housings look a little rice to me, although they are functional in that there is much less glare.

I can prob. see three times better (range, front and side) with my HIDs versus stock halogens.

 
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i also had the best light output using rebased d2r in halogen housing, even more than hid projectors i have now, but it is technically cheating because the reflector amplifies already bright hid bulb with a housing designed for halogen. if you were to compare your setup to a real hid reflector setup yours would still be brighter (but also more glare).

 
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where can you get those sheiled im using 10k promax kit in my oem headlights 01-03h4 and it looks like my high beams are on there soooo bright lol... i need to tone them down a bit

 
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9006 pilot HID plug and play kit Its awesome..... ya i got glare but hey Im not the one driving the other car...... Im not the one suffering Sux for them...... they are 8000k's bright blue and again AWESOME!

 
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mcculloch kits are prolly the best pnp kits...better than some random *** kit...i have to say kaixen, mcculloch and this other kit have to be the best ones...i have a mcculloch 9006 kit for sale 6000k too if u didnt see my other post...$200 takes it

 
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really... i've heard that is one of the worst brands. at least 5 members here had bulbs just burn out in less than a year. its on other forums too. good brands you want companies that made hid for oem cars like Catz.

 
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i've never had any problems with the kit...catz is a good brand too...that was the one i was thinking of

 
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how do i give you rep raging spam.. yea i bought the Mculloch kit from importparts.com if you order from them mention the honda-tech GBuy and itll be 285.00+free shipping on any size D2S or D2R. I ordered 5000K. So I'll have to aim my housing?

 
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I have heard this as well

 
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D2R with shield is the way to go with our stock housing....
McCulloch is good brand i used it for year w/o any problem still hve them in my garage
retro is the best hid setup u can get tho.....

 
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this may be a lil OT, but i'm planning on buying the kaixen 6,500k hid kit... i'm running the black tyc projectors... anyway to get a hi/lo kit from kaixen for the tyc??? or do i just run the hid on lo beams and use halogen hi's???

 
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um yea the tyc has a separate hi beam. you just need hid low beam and you can use halogen hi. the hi/lo kit is for stock headlights that only has one place for the bulb.