so I am looking for HID headlights for my truck what is your input about the dif brands on eBay? I see they range from $20 a set to $200. what is the true dif in these systems and is one really better then the other? sound off and let me know what your experience has been.

 

I am wanting to put some in my headlights and fogs for my fx4. Iam curious about this too. Even the cheepies on ebay seem to get a lot of positive feedbac. Has anybody tried any of these?

 

I am also interested in this..

 

i bought a set off ebay for $59 bucks, thought it was a good deal. got the box, the whole box was covered in chinese or some foreign letters, so was the instruction manual.. figured out how to install them, me and a buddy who has some he payed $150 for, we hooked them up, within two days after i would turn them on they would work fine for a few minutes, then out of nowhere they would start flashing like a strobe lights, within two weeks, they burnt up... got a $200 set now for christmas, havent installed them yet, but they are in english, they appear alot nicer, the box says DOT approved.. now im just waiting for a day above 20 degrees to install them.. i dont really know much about h.i.d.s but IMO, they are something you want to do once, and do it right, buy from an online store with a warranty.. always keep in mind, you get what you pay for. if you pay $20 dollars for h.i.d.s they prolly cost the company $4 or $5 bucks to make (cheap parts). If you pay $200 for a set, with a warranty and stuff you cant go wrong.

 

You dont want to skimp around when dealing with electrical. Buying a cheap kit off Ebay is a gamble. Melting your OEM wiring harness is a known thing to happen with these kits. Spend your money once with reputable companies that use quality parts that dont use over-powered bulbs. DDM, Retro Solutions are a few examples of reputable companies. Retro comes with a lifetime warranty, but be prepared for only email conversations if you have any issues with them

 

Best place by far: I've ordered 5 sets and have had no issues.
http://www.ddmtuning.com/

 

Ha, greatest wrong statement ever. Just be advised, if these bulbs are going into your stock housings, they are illegal. Regardless of what the seller tells you, they are not DOT approved in the US.

But, FWIW I bought an ebay set from a US supplier over 3 years ago for $130 shipped overnight. It was cheap at the time. You don't always get what you pay for, but sometimes you do. I would spend around $100 or more for a set of HIDs before I bought el cheapo from China directly.

 

ive had my set of HIDs for over 2 months(from eBay) and i havnt had any problems wut so ever..my brother also got his online and also no problems..only thing was that they werent the plug-n-play ones but like i said no problems..i say save some money and get cheaper ones..try here;

http://buyhidkits.com/

 

I just removed mine. They're a pain sometimes. I've had HIDs in my truck for 2 years. I purchased a DOT approved halo projector housing a while back and I just got done tearing it apart. Here's my experience.

The HIDs I used began with 8000k bulbs in my lowbeams of my halo projector housings and in my fog lights. I bought all the sets off ebay for like $70, really inexpensive. They tested fine until I unset my alarm and the lights began flickering like crazy. So I disengaged the perimeter lighting and everything was cool. Every so often a ballast would die out on me, I'd just go on ebay and order another pair and replace the ballast. Shortly after that, my lights began to turn more white and less blue. So I ordered new bulbs, 10000k for the lows and fogs. Just last night my right headlamp began flickering and it wouldn't stop. I was a few miles from the house and I was afraid of getting pulled over and having my truck towed. Well I finally got home and I decided to hang with my stock housings and bulbs for now.

Ironically, my girlfriend has had her 8000k HIDs in the stock housings of her 08 Sport Trac for the same time I've had mine, and she's never encountered a problem. I got her a Philips set, which are DOT approved and totally legal. I know this because I went to the DMV and asked them about it putting DOT approved HID bulbs in a stock housing. They looked up some NRS code and sure enough, it's legal. Anywho, enough of that.

When you guys are looking for actual HID lighting, don't be cheap. I did and even though I had a lot of flawless days, it only takes that one day that it fails you that you begin to have regrets about buying cheap. Also, beware of HID imitators. HID stands for High Intensity Discharge. It operates at high voltages with low current. The HID bulb is like a flourescent tube, where the electricity passes through a gas and ignites it, where as a standard halogen bulb runs on low voltage at high current and illuminates by passing a current through a filament surrounded by a halogen gas that prevents the filament from prematurely burning out. A true HID bulb will require a transformer ballast for operation. Also, for those of you looking to put them in your stock housings, make sure you get a bi-xenon kit. This has a bulb that is attached to a relay which moves the bulb back about 3/8" which engages your high beam function. These kits are not plug and play and require a bit of electrical know-how to properly install.

HIDs have a number coinciding with it. This number is the temperature measured in kelvins (hence the 8000k for example). 4300k is the brightest you can get and is the most pure white in color. Anything less than that looks more like standark light bulbs, while anything higher than that gets more blue, and eventually to purple at 12000k. Manufacturers of HIDs also add a tinted gas in the bulb so you can colored light bulbs. You can get green, yellow, dark blue, red, orange, purple, almost any shade, it's endless. One big suggestion is to avoid getting dark blue or red since those are legally denoted as emergency colors and in some ordinances constitutes as "impersinating a law enforcement officer" and can cause some trouble. 8000k is the darkest I'll suggest for reflector housings, and 10000k is the darkest I'll suggest for projectors.

I hope this helps some of you guys out! Good luck with whatever you do! Oh, and my signature shows what I had until this morning, lol.