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Cooper197 · 08-28-2015, 08:46 PM

There can be a night and day difference between halogens and HID's, but thats nothing compared to retrofitting HID projectors into your halogen system.

The Retrofit Source (TRS) sells great HID kits and projectors. I'd highly recommend looking into their products.

If you're just going to put HID's in the Halogen housings (which I strongly urge you not to do) I'd stay away from DDM especially if you are going with 55w. They tend to have issues with the ballasts. I've ran them on 2 of my cars (with full projector retrofits) and both had ballasts die within a year. The ballasts I got from TRS are 3 years strong now, love them.

On another note with HID's, don't go out and get anything higher than 6,000K. Even 6000 is very blue, and higher numbers don't mean higher light output. ~4,500-5,000 tends to be the sweet spot for headlights and ~3,500-4,000 for fogs. Go any higher than that on either one and you will blind people and lose light output.

08-28-2015, 08:46 PM	#7
Cooper197 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Eugene, Oregon Posts: 199	Re: Best HID kits. There can be a night and day difference between halogens and HID's, but thats nothing compared to retrofitting HID projectors into your halogen system. The Retrofit Source (TRS) sells great HID kits and projectors. I'd highly recommend looking into their products. If you're just going to put HID's in the Halogen housings (which I strongly urge you not to do) I'd stay away from DDM especially if you are going with 55w. They tend to have issues with the ballasts. I've ran them on 2 of my cars (with full projector retrofits) and both had ballasts die within a year. The ballasts I got from TRS are 3 years strong now, love them. On another note with HID's, don't go out and get anything higher than 6,000K. Even 6000 is very blue, and higher numbers don't mean higher light output. ~4,500-5,000 tends to be the sweet spot for headlights and ~3,500-4,000 for fogs. Go any higher than that on either one and you will blind people and lose light output.