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In order to put the plug and play H1 HID kit into the TYC's, will I have to make the bulb opening any bigger? I know that the HID bulbs are bigger then standard H1. I do not want to retrofit Audi lenses or anything. I just want to throw the kit into the stock TYC's. Thanks.

 
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dam i just got some tyc projectors and i love them... they project the light so much better than stock, i say just get some Audi projectors, but thats just me...

 
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i love the pattern and brightness on mine...dont bother with the hid...put the money elsewhere

 
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yea my tyc's seem to be doing really well..

the stock bulbs kick ***!

 
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you think that those are nice...you should look into the mtec h1's like i have...AWESOME!!

 
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nope, i had 2 pairs of mtec's..

they both blew out in 2 months time all together....

yes maybe your's will last longer, and some do and some dont..

but im not happy with their "long life"

but yes, they are nice bulbs, i do agree!

 
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My MTech's lasted about 8 months. THen I got some Euro Dezignz that lasted like 2 days. Try driving down the interstate at 2 in the morning going 80 miles an hour when your headlight bulbs burn out.
Not fun ...

 
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6 replies and not a single one of them could answer my question. Can someone that has an HID kit in their stock projectors help me out?

 
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JUst get one of those Cheap-***-Ebay-HID- Xenon-Immitation-Bulbs. They last forever than American Idol.

 
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I dont have HIDs but i DO have projectors, and i pulled it apart once to see how it was built and the H1 bulb is riiight there at the metal plate that is inside the lens. . .correct me if i'm wrong but the HID bulb is longer than the regular filament...so it might touch the metal plate and cause the bulb to break or something.

 
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I already have MTEC bulbs. I want a greater light out put. Thanks anyways.

 
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Hmmmm. You might be right. I am almost positive I saw someone on here with HID's in there stock projectors. He has civic is black and the light out put is purple ish. I really need to know before I buy the kit. Any knowledgable mods or sellers know this?

 
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i believe if u get an H1 HID kit the bulb will be the same size. and it just plug and play almost.

 
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Your TYCs are set up to project light with a standard halogen bulb, if you get an HID kit the light would be projected all over the place and you would have people getting blinded by your lights. I understand if you dont have the ***** to do it, but the best possible thing to do is to replace the stock TYC projectors with Audi or BMW bixenon projectors (hella) with ballasts. You would have a sharp cutoff, the HID's would be legal and you would see a lot more of the road than with regular shitty HID kits. You can find these projectors with ballasts and harnesses for between 400-500 dollars. Or you can just retrofit the projectors from an Audi (with or without Audi bulbs) and get a 9006 HID kit (this would cost a lot more). Although this project would be pretty difficult, you would have the brightest non blinding hids on this site (until of course I retrofit my angel eyes).

 
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i wish someone will post a real good step by step on how to do audi projectors and HID's in the TYC projectors

 
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there is...you have to find it....it was a silver 2k1 with TYC and audi Projectors...he had tons of pictures for the DIY and also had video clips...search around it may pop up.

 
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Well if anyone finds that DIY then post the link. I am planning on doing a retrofit sometime this summer/early fall. When I do it I will post a DIY if that link is not found. Hopefully it is basically the same thing to retrofit TYC's as it is angel eyes or else that DIY means nothing to me. But when its done you can imagine how sweet it would look.

On a side note, does anyone know how you would wire it with bixenons, how do you get it so when you flip the high beam switch, the bixenons go to high beam. Cuz with mine, it would switch to the other bulb and my HIDs would burn out quickly because of how many times they would have to be re-ignited.

 
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Im almost done w/ my Euro Audi A6 into my TYC projectors. Im in the process of Aiming them right now. They are technically aimed perfectly, but since my car is lowered you can't see the purple aberation on the cutoff band until i hit a bump or inclination. Im trying to aim them so that after 40 ft or so there is no yellow or white and just blue and purple on the cutoff so I would have to aim them higher than 1 inch below 25 feet.

 
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Did you get any pictures of that, I would love to see it (the install and the final result).

Are the Audi A6 projectors bixenon? Because if they are I was wondering how you wire it so that the current isnt cut off when you switch to the high beams.

Hopefully all goes well for your install, when I get the money (after buying rims and a kit) I will be doing this too.

 
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No my projectors aren't bixenon and thank god they arent. All new bixenon projectors have a flip up cutoff sheild and is controled through a solenoid that flips the sheild up or down. Since this requires a different reflective optic in depth you'll notice that the newer HID's in Audi's and BMW's don't have the same Purplish cutoff effect or is minimized by this new shield. Also I still have my H1 high beams which is more trust worthy and cheaper to fix than a bixenon solenoid. Don't even bother w/ bixenon's unless your retrofitting onto your stock housing's rendering you without the use of high beams. Bixenons also have alot more depth and width to deal w/ and with the A6 in my TYC's theres absolutely no space for any of that. I'll start a new thread when I get the pics up.

 
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closest to HIDs at a fraction of the cost would be the CATZ super plazma bulbs. look purplish-blue and super bright. i had them stock and they were wonderful

 
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PM "pdxbiker" he is the one that did the TYC Audi A6 Conversion...

 
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Screw MTEC bulbs, bright my ***, no brighter than stock "non-coated" halogen. In fact, even less lumens output. eople often associate "bluer" with "brighter" -- which unfortunately, is untrue (even in the case with HIDs, lumens output drops as color gets bluer) HID is the only way to go I'm running 5,200 K Philips H4 HID. Beam pattern is close to stock, and i rarely get highbeamed. From far away, looks really intense and really intimidating hehe

 
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I would love to get the TYCs though, no matter what, you still need highbeams.