Has anyone installed an HID kit on their 04 or newer F-150?

 

Search and ye shall receive...

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...&highlight=HID

 

Like 04 RED LARIAT said. A search will do you good because this topic has been discussed in extreme depth.

The solution to true HID output and quality light will be found in a HID retrofit. What is a HID retrofit you might ask? Well that is taking true OEM HID projectors and mounting them correctly in your headlight.

Here is your first hint. You'll have to buy aftermarket "Depo" F150 headlights. OEM F150 headlights are sealed by a glues that is next to impossible to loosen up.

Here is what the output of my HID retrofit will look like when I'm finished with it. I started this quest in June and am about a month away from being done. Just pretend the Mercedes is my F150.

These are top of the line LS430 projectors.

 

So once it is all said and done and you provide us with a handy-dandy How-To how much time, effort, and MONEY are we looking at to get those mercedes headlights in an f150?

 

They're actually Lexus LS430 projectors. (just pictured installed in a mercedes here.

Lol. Well it's taken 7 months of research.

Probably 60 hours of labor.

$400 for the projectors.
$195 for ballasts
$55 for wiring
$65 for two HID bulbs
$149 for two headlights
$100 for random materials
$245 in install labor
$300 in modification labor (to make it bi-xeon and have a colorful cutoff)

So very expensive. But they'll hands down be the best lights on the road by far.

 

Dang Duke... you've really dumped some bucks into those.... want to make me a set for $150? LOL!

 

I can see just fine at night and I still have $1500 in the bank. I also have my 60 hours which is worth quite a bit. Not really trying to knock your project. Just saying that it seems like a whole lot of money and time for the upgrade.

 

the building in the background, thats being used to display the lights, is that where there keeping the space ship hidden ?

 

It has been quite the considerable investment and time investment. The reason I'm doing it, is in the winter up here it gets dark really really early and I'll be doing a lot of long driving back and forth from work in the city and I live out in the country. Out by my house it is pitch, and I mean pitch black. I had HID on the last car and really liked how I was able to see so much more and it saved me from hitting deer three times. (that is enough to pay for the retrofit)

The results will be outstanding, and it's worth the money to me. It's not just a "looks" thing. It will spread an enourmous amount of light which will making driving at night more enjoyable and safer.

I have no idea whats the deal with the warehouse. I got those pics from a guy who put these projectors in his mercedes ( I think he lives in california).

The total project will cost me $1,100. I got most of my parts for really good deals.

 

I installed and HID kit in a lincoln and I lost the high beams and the headlight out sensor told me a headlight was out each time I started the car because of the HIDs.

Anyone?

I want to install the kit in my 2005 Screw

 

>I installed and HID kit in a lincoln and I lost the high beams and the headlight out >sensor told me a headlight was out each time I started the car because of the HIDs.

Simple solution, install a Blocking Diode between the low and high beam wires on the lamp connector (in the correct direction). This will let the High beam power supply "flow" to the low beam side and keep the HIDs on when you select high beam and will not let the low beam power flow into the high beam which would make you High beam indicator stay on all the time. We sell HID kits for the Porsche 928 and I do this mod on all of our kits.

Here is a link to the best blocking diodes I could find, and they even come in an insulated "inline fuse type" enclosure.

http://www.agtprint.com/s106/htmfiles/diodes.html