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Old Nov 22, 2010 | 08:59 PM
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light bulbs?

ok i have an 05 f150 an i want some new light bulbs for my fogs and lights.....i dont wanna spend the money on hids for both what light bulbs can i get tht are a lil brighter and give tht blue or white color look?
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Old Nov 22, 2010 | 10:22 PM
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check out gorecon.com and click on xenon bulbs then look at there diamond white bulbs or even there platinum blue ones. recon has pretty legit stuff in my opinion. but you can always find better deals on ebay. but there not always that great of quality in my opinion.
 
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Old Nov 22, 2010 | 11:13 PM
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do not get "xenon" bulbs! they are just over powered, over priced junk. at least that's been the stories I've heard.

either go with Sylvania Silverstar Ultras in both fogs and headlights, or do a projector retrofit in your headlights.
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 04:11 AM
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x2 for Sylvanias
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by ridinonmoto17s
check out gorecon.com and click on xenon bulbs then look at there diamond white bulbs or even there platinum blue ones. recon has pretty legit stuff in my opinion. but you can always find better deals on ebay. but there not always that great of quality in my opinion.
Do not buy the ones from Recon. I had the platinum blues and they only lasted 4 months. The low beam burned out in the one bulb but the high still worked. I'll have to take a pic of what the bulbs looked like after I took them out. Here is one of them installed, not very good light output either
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Just get some Silverstars and be done with it.
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 07:43 AM
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I can't get a great picture of the bulbs but there is a painted/tinted coating that is flaking off and the bulb looked like crap after little usage.
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 09:19 AM
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Ok thank u for the info.
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 09:47 AM
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i just bought a set of 6000k HIDs from carhidkits.com and it was only 113 bucks shipped and there awesome. Ive been looking for a set of 6000k fogs on ebay and i should have looked there first cause there cheap on ebay. But before i had the HIDS i had sylvannia silver star ultras
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 09:50 AM
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Don't do the HIDS without a proper retrofit or projectors
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 12:36 PM
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Go with Silver Stars expensive bulbs but cheaper than a good set of HIDs and the bulbs last a long time. you can easily find them for your heads and fogs. I have tried many of the Japanese and Korean bulbs over the years and they might look "cool" but they put out very little useable light. The last ones I bought from Luminics got too hot and melted my fog light lenses. I will never go with anything but SS from now on.
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by mote88
ok i have an 05 f150 an i want some new light bulbs for my fogs and lights.....i dont wanna spend the money hid bulb on hids for both what light bulbs can i get tht are a lil brighter and give tht blue or white color look?
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I don't know dude.. I think you should probably look more into some HIDs.. They're not that expensive.. I mean if you check ebay they sell some for about $15 - $20 and I'm sure you'll find bulbs for probably the identical price.
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 02:16 PM
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Can u send me the link of hids for the fogs and regular heads on ebay plz thax
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 02:51 PM
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I would avoid a $15 "HID".
 
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Old Nov 23, 2010 | 03:21 PM
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Thts what I was thinking
 
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Old Nov 24, 2010 | 10:54 PM
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if you are dead set on PNP HIDs, go with a good, reputable company with good quality products, but don't spend a fortune.
 
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