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Hey guys I need some advice real quick. Automotive lighting is not my forte. My wife has a 2004 Honda civic, and recently her own headlights started cracking down the

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Old 03-17-2012, 12:34 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Hey guys I need some advice real quick. Automotive lighting is not my forte. My wife has a 2004 Honda civic, and recently her own headlights started cracking down the middle and letting moisture in. They looked like crap so I decided to get her new ones. I went with the K2motors R8 style headlights since she thought those were the prettiest (lol). I wasn't expecting HID quality from these headlights, but these things are just sad. The low beams are a deep yellow color that shine about 25' in front of the car and that's it. It's actually dangerous to drive with these things at night. I take them apart and look up the bulb, which is an H3, and I find out its producing about 850 lumens. Sad. I want to upgrade to HID, but I don't know what all I would need to get. What is a good site to buy a kit from and what all would I need to buy? Is 50w really that much better than 35w? I read somewhere that that's why people's new bulbs are blinking on and off, something about a resistor messing up the draw of current on the car and the car spazzing out and shutting down that circuit. Input?


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I have 2 hondas for DD etc and mine have yellowed over too, makes me mad. Ill prob just replace mine with stock just to make it look clean. Or, you could just buy your wife a lightly used Z which OBVIOUSLY would save you tons of cash I agree, the headlights yellowing drove me nuts. I find that the cars here in the south seem to do it much faster than those up north too.
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Haha I would love to get her one but I don't have the money for it right now, plus she really wants an Audi, that's her favorite car maker.


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Hey guys I need some advice real quick. Automotive lighting is not my forte. My wife has a 2004 Honda civic, and recently her own headlights started cracking down the middle and letting moisture in. They looked like crap so I decided to get her new ones. I went with the K2motors R8 style headlights since she thought those were the prettiest (lol). I wasn't expecting HID quality from these headlights, but these things are just sad. The low beams are a deep yellow color that shine about 25' in front of the car and that's it. It's actually dangerous to drive with these things at night. I take them apart and look up the bulb, which is an H3, and I find out its producing about 850 lumens. Sad. I want to upgrade to HID, but I don't know what all I would need to get. What is a good site to buy a kit from and what all would I need to buy? Is 50w really that much better than 35w? I read somewhere that that's why people's new bulbs are blinking on and off, something about a resistor messing up the draw of current on the car and the car spazzing out and shutting down that circuit. Input?


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Got this civic at 100k plus miles. But just did the HID and working fine on me however still any one can always find a cheaper price somewhere else. Guess it all comes down to who you trust. From then on would need to replaced though and heard that some HID kits have features that could prevent the lights for being blown out. at about a year would planning to do my project on the next big thing.
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http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/DD...ast-35W-or-55W

35W should be sufficient for your application. Select the H3 bulb type, then choose from 4500K to 6000K for maximum light output. I've had one of their kits for more than a year on my other vehicle and haven't had any issues with it (I went with 5000K). Literally plug and use.
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if you are going to do this mod, please make sure you are getting projector based head lights, HIDs on reflector based headlights will blind people on the road and depending on where you live, also illegal
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if you are going to do this mod, please make sure you are getting projector based head lights, HIDs on reflector based headlights will blind people on the road and depending on where you live, also illegal
Hence why I keep avoiding the Diamond Bar area, I always exited the city....blind
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