About aggravated with these HID Projectors...

[mrcajunjoker]

Ok, here's the thing. I have a 08 Black Tahoe LT and wanted new headlights and taillights. I went to dashzracing and bought a projector headlight with a 4300K HID kit. I got a really bad spider web or rippling water effect on the wall. The light output was horrible, so bad in fact, that I had to drive with the high beams just to see at night. The HID's were O-nex. I setup a refund and ordered the same lights from Carid.com instead. I was hoping that the lights I got from dashzracing were just bad. The headlights, from what I understand, are made by Spyder. I got the Carid order for headlights and HID kit, Notto HID's and look just as bad. Can someone shed some light on the matter for me? Is it that the HID's don't really matter but the projector is my problem? Both HID's were digital sets and both provided about the same light output on the wall.

I like the taillights and they were plug n play... lol

And I like the look of the headlights.... just not the light output...

Advice ?

 

[Zed 71]

Yeah those look terrible. It looks like those projectors were not designed to be used with HID bulbs or the optics are garbage.

Try and use the OEM halogen just to see if this is the case. If so return the projectors and just use HID in the stock housing and adjust the beam down.

 

[mrcajunjoker]

Yeah, the second picture is actually the stock halogen in the driver's side and HID in the passenger. The headlight housing does have the cutoff inside, so I guess they're HID ready? Maybe just the optics like you said....

These are the lights...

 

[Zed 71]

Wow... Just return and use HID in stock housings. Check out the supporting vendors, HIDgate, and DDM.

 

[felixgun]

Someone else has those headlights on this forum but I don't think they put HID's in them. Some after market headlights are not made to work with HID's... these might be some of them... like other guy said.. try to put in stock bulb with the headlights and see if the problem still persists.

 

[InTruckDesign]

I have those headlights along with another member on here, you need to space the bulb out of the housing roughly 5/8 inch. , since HID's light from the center of the tube and are much longer than the H1 halogen bulbs that come with them. I was able to get a much better cutoff and beam pattern, but spent alot of time with bulb placement, just fyi there is a sticker on the housing that specifically states not for use with HID bulbs.

 

[mrcajunjoker]

Really.... I must have missed the warning. I did just go to the Spyder Auto site and see that: "These projector headlights are not compatible with factory Xenon H.I.D. system, it comes with its own standard Halogen light bulbs for installation." Funny that the retail sites don't post that info.

Wait... I googled HIDgate and found a eBay seller. $40 for HID's ?

http://shop.ebay.com/hidgate/m.html...&_odkw=&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3911.c0.m270.l1313

What about cutoff using a stock headlamp with a HID kit? The cutoff comes from the metal plate inside the headlight right? Which the stocks don't have?

 

[mrailing]

I have those headlights along with another member on here, you need to space the bulb out of the housing roughly 5/8 inch. , since HID's light from the center of the tube and are much longer than the H1 halogen bulbs that come with them. I was able to get a much better cutoff and beam pattern, but spent alot of time with bulb placement, just fyi there is a sticker on the housing that specifically states not for use with HID bulbs.

Would you give some more detail to what you did to get more light out of the HIDs? You say you spaced the bulbs 5/8" out, what did you use as a spacer?

 

[itsspeeds]

I really like those lights, keep the ideas rolling fellas.

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Cheap priced lights, but did you notice the shipping? $31 !!!! They get ya one way or another!

 

[mrcajunjoker]

Has anyone used the Anzo lights possibly with HID's?