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Old 12-21-2015, 07:28 AM
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Old 12-21-2015, 11:54 PM
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This is y the lights seem so dim the factory projector look like this. The center isn't even a projector more like a lens where can I get non project headlamps from
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Old 12-22-2015, 12:24 AM
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My light my be brighter with this no projector headlamp



My lights will be brighter with these
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Factory HID'* are designed with HID'* in mind. The housings, reflector and lens'* are designed for the use of HID'* only. And this is the case with halogen also. Just because you stick a light bulb in a housing, does not mean it will work CORRECTLY. HID'* are also aimed differently then halogens. If you put HID bulbs in a halogen housing and never change aiming, your low beams could be blinding people. And this is why people like you all think laws like these are stupid. Blind a driver at night, they get into accident, they sue you in return because of your stupid decision to modify the lighting system on a DOT vehicle.
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Old 12-22-2015, 03:34 PM
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My low beams are the same like out put as the halogen lights I had before. So I figure it be brighter with hids and it'* the same output. There no where bright enough to blind anyone so I was saying how the projector look but I'm a do what I think will work and projector lights are not nowhere bright to me they look horrible. The non projector head I posted will shine the light more better imo
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I totally agree Mike, which is why I added the following to one of the posts.
"NOTE: They are quite bright, and without the proper focused HID lighting headlamp housing, you will possibly blind others, I only drive at night in areas where not a lot of people travel, so I was not too concerned..
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I only think the laws are stupid that you cannot have a retrofit modded for your older model car, then have it perfectly aimed like the newer cars that are legally allowed to have them, once that is done there should be somewhere that can give you an ok, and pass the current light set as DOT approved.
I don't think it is ok to take a chance on blinding people, and or intentionally causing a wreck.
To be honest I have not put mine back in since the last inspection I got, they were not blinding others though, I never once had somebody flick there lights at me thinking I had on high beams.
If I lived/traveled in the city I'd have never used them, I only got mine to see the deer before they commit suicide into my car, I had one jump into it years back, I cannot afford another one jumping into my car, with the HID'* I could see all so much more clearly..
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Well apparently my lows are 9005 instead of 9006. It'* weird I brought 9006 which show it'* lows it wouldn't lock in the socket same issue I had with my hids, so I had exchange them for 9005 which anywhere shows they are highs actually worked. I even went on another site to see if any had this problem and sure enough I wasn't alone. For some odd reason some yukons the factory projector take the 9005. So I'm shock that the 9005 are my lows.
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The 9005 and 9006 look identical but lock different in the head lamp socket
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