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Old May 21, 2007 | 01:32 AM
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Which headlights?

Well I have the projector headlights right now with the HID's in them and I've been seeing all these painted stock headlights and I really like the look of those too. I was thinking of getting some opinions of what I should do. It's either I just keep the projectors with HID's now or buy the stock painted black headlights and install some HID's in those baby's.

Let me know what you guys think I should do.
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Old May 21, 2007 | 01:34 AM
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well no, keep the projectors....... hids in stock housings look nice... but the law dosnt like them...... i found out the hard way LOL
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Old May 21, 2007 | 01:37 AM
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Please do some serious research about HIDs in reflectors before doing it.
Reflector housings are not built to control and aim HID light correctly.
You know sometimes how you see the BMW's and mercs....and they have that pinpoint HID light....thats kinda bright but not bad.....
then you see the honda civic, or the F150, that causes the back of your eye to actually hurt when you look at them even in the middle of the day from glare?

the ebay projectors arent perfect.....but they do kinda keep it outta drivers eyes at least.
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Old May 21, 2007 | 01:43 AM
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Keep the projectors. It's a look that a lot of people don't get. the "blacked out" housing is just a cheaper way to do an external modification. You spent some cash on those lights. save them. IMO they look better.
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Old May 21, 2007 | 01:44 AM
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i have to agree. even though the projectors look like ****, they do what they are susposed to with hids, provide a cutoff.
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Old May 21, 2007 | 01:57 AM
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rip them open and color match them
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Old May 21, 2007 | 02:34 AM
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keep your $200 projectors.


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Old May 21, 2007 | 04:08 AM
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sell said projectors to me
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Old May 21, 2007 | 06:38 AM
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I would have to sell sell the projectors Rob, TO ME
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Old May 21, 2007 | 07:53 AM
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I don't like the design of the projectors for the balts. Thats why I painted my stock housings black and I plan to install HIDs in them. My husband installed HIDs in his Accord when he had that and he had driven behind me plenty of times and was never "burning your eyes out" bright. He also had HIDs in his Sunfire and never had the problem either. It was bright of course and looked sweet as hell....but it wasn't really hard to look at, at night.
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Old May 21, 2007 | 11:17 AM
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i have HIDs in my eclipse 8K and ive never gotten pulled over and there not in projectors
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Old May 21, 2007 | 02:13 PM
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Im not gonna get into this argument. cuz its not the point of this thread.
but everyone that does it convinces themselves its just fine.
Until they either get pulled over by the cops....or they realise the truth of how HID light is propagated and reflected.
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