Okay, so I just installed my 9006 Lexus RX330 H.I.D. kit in my Tiburon FX and it's a little brighter than stock. I went through a pair of 60W stock bulbs and changed them to 80W for low beams from eautoworks.com. The bulb replacements had a nice blue color but no tint. The blue paint on them definitely blocked the light. The problem with them was they were definitely not what I had expected. For 80W, 20W over stock, they proved to be weaker than stock lights! They looked bright but when you were driving I could not see a thing! I even hit a deer! They look cool when they're turned on but look cheap when you see the blue reflections in the lamp housing. They also burned and melted my wiring harness from the high output. Recently I put the stock bulb back in place next to the aftermarket halogen and confirmed that the stock ones were better. I didn't want to drive blindfolded anymore so I decided to do what was best and that was to get an H.I.D. kit. No more intense heat. No more draining the battery from high wattage output. This kit only puts out 35W and 3 times the light.

So my best friend got me these H.I.D.'s and I had installed them. They are just a little brighter than stock lights but have the color of those halogen lamps you see mounted on the ceiling in offices. Obviously not the prettiest color but I had hoped for a tint. Mercades, BMW, Lexus all have H.I.D. lights that look white from up close but when you drive from a distance you see a spectacular array tint of blue or purple that flicker in your eyes. Where and why does this happen? I know that H.I.D.'s bend the light so from a distance you see the luminous blue color signaling you. Where is mine?

My question, is how come my brand new Lexus RX H.I.D.'s dont have that blue tint from a distance? Could it be that the bulb is halogen filled and not xenon? Why don't I have that magnificent blue flashy tint you always see from a distance on these babes? 02.gif

 

Its based on the temp of your bulbs I believe. It seems your bulbs are in the 6000k range. The higher temp, the more color, for instance when you hit the 8500k mark you'll get that blue tint. I dont know if Lexus has that blue tint in their HID's. I dont believe my acura does. Also these should be MUCH better than stock.

 

Yes, find out the Kelvin rating for your HIDs

 

Also, our projectors are much bigger, and made of plastic (correct me if im' wrong), compared to smaller glass projectors found on mercedes, bmw, and so on.

so the HID's will never look the same unless you put their projectors along with their bulbs.

(don't they all use 4300K?)

 

i dont think so. i think some bmw's are higher up. however i think lexus and acura are in that range.

 

Yeah, you need to find the kelvin rating. Mine are 8500k and they are blue as hell with a little purple around the edges. They look sweet, and lines on the road stand out as if they were being hit with a black light!

Is yours the full conversion w/ ballasts and igniters, or are they just bulbs?

1 more thing, if you are worried about it, anything over 8000k is not street legal. At least in IL anyway.

 

Our projectors ARE glass. Plastic would never hold up.

 

you want a good HID kit to be in the white light spectrum, which is 6500K i think (not 100% sure), the reason for this is because white light is brighter. the blue tint, (in a proper HID set anyway), is the result of the projector bending the light that is visible from the sides. This way, the light you are using to see the road is white, and the light that everybody (besides the person your about to hit) sees is blue. if you just did the bulbs without the projector, this is the reason for your lack of blue, but if you did the projector too, you did it wrong maybe?

 

every single oem HID kit you see is in the 4k-5k range.

its the way the headlights that have them installed stock bend the light to make it look blue.

 

Exactly. If you have ever played with a prism, the lenses on our low beams are VERY similar. Even with the stock lamps in the housings, you get an edge of blue around the area of light.. especially at the top where the cut off sheild is.