H.I.D. light choice?

[Only The Best 10+ year member]

so yeah is it possible to be able to take the current housing apart and put CCFL led's in it? without completly messing it up

 

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

so yeah is it possible to be able to take the current housing apart and put CCFL led's in it? without completly messing it up

Anything is possible.

 

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Stock headlights with HIDs... Notice all the glare??? Its always there no matter how far you lower the beam of the headlights.

Projector retrofit.

 

[NASTY08IMPALA 5,000+ posts]

Anything is possible. 

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Stock headlights with HIDs... Notice all the glare??? Its always there no matter how far you lower the beam of the headlights.

Projector retrofit.

what temp bulbs are in these 2 pics?

 

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

5000k morimoto bulbs.

 

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

Read that wrong. Bottom is 5000k.

Top idk. I would guess 8000k

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I love my 6k's in my Explorer.

 

[tc300 10+ year member]

Ddm and morimoto and mcculloch are great brands.... Ddm being the cheapest....

 

[Full Tilt 10+ year member]

Yeah your right they do have rings....They obviously stole the design from BMW as everyone knows that have been using the corona ring lighting technology since the late 90's.
It only took Chevrolet 10-15 yrs to rip off the cosmetic lighting design //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

An OEM Manufacturer putting a ring in a production vehicle is a totally different story than someone buying a cheap Chinese housing off Ebay and bolting it on their.....Ford, Dodge Ram, Honda Civic, Mitsubishi Galant ect.

And I agree they do look hot on that new Camaro with the only the two rings and not the 4 like Bimmers have.

I'm sure the engineers said lets use lighting to accentuate the front end to add an aggressive looks and they said oh yeah BMW has accomplished this for 10+ years on 3,5,7,and x Series lets put a ring in there. It's always going to be easier to rip off someone else's design than think of something new.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Remember when companies like Chevy came around and stole Ford's idea of putting wheels on their vehicles? They can't think of any of their own ideas.

 

[Lexicon740iL 10+ year member]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Remember when companies like Chevy came around and stole Ford's idea of putting wheels on their vehicles? They can't think of any of their own ideas.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif That's a good one man!

But keep in mind wheels are a standard drive train necessity and we were talking about a cosmetic design feature with the rings.

That's a pretty cleaver analogy none the less. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Full Tilt 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif That's a good one man!
But keep in mind wheels are a standard a drive train necessity and we were talking about a cosmetic design feature with the rings.

That's a pretty cleaver analogy none the less. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

I dunno, I guess I just don't see little things like that as 'stealing ideas', or anything of the sort. I mean, new ideas are great and all, but a lot of companies would get almost nowhere without incorporating an idea that another company may have created. I'm pretty big into video games, so I'll use this as an example:

Everybody loves a good game of Nazi Zombies. It's fun, it's cool, whatever. But wait..what happened? Gears of War just incorporated Horde mode and everybody is losing their minds. I'm on the EPIC Games forum, and I constantly see people getting all butthurt over what game studio stole whose idea, and I just see it as a bunch of BS. Sure, the idea may be similar or even the exact same, but they're two totally different designs that are both good - so, why not?

 

[Lexicon740iL 10+ year member]

I dunno, I guess I just don't see little things like that as 'stealing ideas', or anything of the sort. I mean, new ideas are great and all, but a lot of companies would get almost nowhere without incorporating an idea that another company may have created. I'm pretty big into video games, so I'll use this as an example:
Everybody loves a good game of Nazi Zombies. It's fun, it's cool, whatever. But wait..what happened? Gears of War just incorporated Horde mode and everybody is losing their minds. I'm on the EPIC Games forum, and I constantly see people getting all butthurt over what game studio stole whose idea, and I just see it as a bunch of BS. Sure, the idea may be similar or even the exact same, but they're two totally different designs that are both good - so, why not?

I totally agree my good sir. It looks hawt on that Camaro. I was mainly just commenting on the guys slapping the ebay housings with rings on any old car.

For instance I like the Cue VW and others like Merc. took with the LED strips from the Audi Design house. It made the R8 IMHO I remember when I first saw it I was like everyone is gonna use this one day soon. And now a lot of manufacturers have taken that Idea and adapted it to their platforms.

I can also relate to loving a good game of Nazi Zombies! I've been really looking forward to the new Dead Island "Riptide" as well. It's been a while since I've replayed a game after beating it but man do I like to hack those suckers up. I've played through several times now. I'm excited to see what Deep Silver does with co-op and Muliplayer this time around.

 

[Only The Best 10+ year member]

I dunno, I guess I just don't see little things like that as 'stealing ideas', or anything of the sort. I mean, new ideas are great and all, but a lot of companies would get almost nowhere without incorporating an idea that another company may have created. I'm pretty big into video games, so I'll use this as an example:
Everybody loves a good game of Nazi Zombies. It's fun, it's cool, whatever. But wait..what happened? Gears of War just incorporated Horde mode and everybody is losing their minds. I'm on the EPIC Games forum, and I constantly see people getting all butthurt over what game studio stole whose idea, and I just see it as a bunch of BS. Sure, the idea may be similar or even the exact same, but they're two totally different designs that are both good - so, why not?

no such thing as "stealing ideas"... only thing that could be considered is... not patenting it or making it so ****** that nobody could beat. but again? if i took the housing apart do i need to seal it back up with silicone or somthing for humidity in texas?

 

[Full Tilt 10+ year member]

no such thing as "stealing ideas"... only thing that could be considered is... not patenting it or making it so ****** that nobody could beat. but again? if i took the housing apart do i need to seal it back up with silicone or somthing for humidity in texas?

I dunno what you're even talking about. But carry on with your discussion.

 

[Popwarhomie 5,000+ posts]

Lol comparing DDM to Morimoto is like comparing Boss Audio to Sundown.. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/satan.gif.9c6a335ed7aeeed3ee273e573f1fcaac.gif

 

[Lexicon740iL 10+ year member]

yes, you absolutely need to reseal the headlights. both for humidity and water-fastness.


Its adorable you think BMW is an innovator. The halo lights have been around in a form since at LEAST the 70's.

Where's the Pics?..... I want to see all of these production vehicles with OEM rings in the headlights since the 70's I must have missed.