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ill get some HID's in later down the road //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif
No, you won't. This is because I will kill you in your sleep for being one of those lazy scumbags that haphazardly throws cheap, chinese made HID drop-in 'kits' into their headlights, which are clearly designed for halogen bulbs. When idiots like you do this, it blinds everyone not because they put out twice as many lumens as halogen bulbs, but because your halogen housing is not meant for HID bulbs and thus it creates glare and extreme hotspots. Chevy trucks are especially bad about this. Driving such a massive vehicle, you already blind people at night in normal cars, much less lowered vehicles. Mine isn't lowered, but idiots like you blind the shit out of me with your normal headlights (which I can understand, you can't help that, it's stock) much less HID drop-ins. If you had half a clue how HID works as opposed to halogen, you wouldn't even consider drop-ins. If you want HID, retrofit your headlight with OEM HID projectors. They don't have to be Chevy OEM, I'm using projectors from an Audi for my retrofit. There are also people who retrofit headlights for a living, and they will be much obliged to have your business while keeping 'kits' off the road, where they cause problems. Get educated.

 
No, you won't. This is because I will kill you in your sleep for being one of those lazy scumbags that haphazardly throws cheap, chinese made HID drop-in 'kits' into their headlights, which are clearly designed for halogen bulbs. When idiots like you do this, it blinds everyone not because they put out twice as many lumens as halogen bulbs, but because your halogen housing is not meant for HID bulbs and thus it creates glare and extreme hotspots. Chevy trucks are especially bad about this. Driving such a massive vehicle, you already blind people at night in normal cars, much less lowered vehicles. Mine isn't lowered, but idiots like you blind the shit out of me with your normal headlights (which I can understand, you can't help that, it's stock) much less HID drop-ins. If you had half a clue how HID works as opposed to halogen, you wouldn't even consider drop-ins. If you want HID, retrofit your headlight with OEM HID projectors. They don't have to be Chevy OEM, I'm using projectors from an Audi for my retrofit. There are also people who retrofit headlights for a living, and they will be much obliged to have your business while keeping 'kits' off the road, where they cause problems. Get educated.
explain what ur saying. i've noticed how some people's head lights are brighter before. What exactly are they putting in?

 
explain what ur saying. i've noticed how some people's head lights are brighter before. What exactly are they putting in?
Most people with ridiculously bright/blue/pink lights are using an HID drop-in kit, or conversion... They look brighter to other people because they are producing glare, instead of factory HID systems which are designed to put the light on the road, not in other drivers' eyes. They look something like this:

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Unfortunately, this is the kind of output you'll get:

Glare and useless light patterns

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Notice in the last pic how the light output has no cutoff whatsoever, but rather just kinda vomits light every which way.

And this is what a proper HID retrofit using HID projectors will look like:

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Visit http://www.HIDplanet.com/forums

You'll learn a lot there.

 
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