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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: daviee on 13 February 2017, 07:15:52 pm

Title: hid
Post by: daviee on 13 February 2017, 07:15:52 pm

(http://foc-u.co.uk/MGalleryItem.php?id=2911)

can you tell witch side is hid  :rolleyes

Title: Re: hid
Post by: Graham53 on 13 February 2017, 08:09:53 pm

I'm going out on a limb here ......but is it the one on the right in the picture ???  :rollin

Title: Re: hid
Post by: darrsi on 13 February 2017, 08:23:00 pm

Are they okay with the plastic lens?

Title: Re: hid
Post by: darrsi on 13 February 2017, 08:24:26 pm

Had a bike behind me the other day with the same spotlights as mine, but his headlights matched as well.
He was easy to see.  :)

Title: Re: hid
Post by: daviee on 13 February 2017, 09:01:08 pm

they are fine with the plasic lens they are less wattage than standard halogen the one i got is only 35 watts so its cooler thaan the low beam but so much brighter

Title: Re: hid
Post by: Skippernick on 13 February 2017, 10:14:40 pm

was it a straight swap?

Title: Re: hid
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 14 February 2017, 09:05:51 am

Quote from: Skippernick on 13 February 2017, 10:14:40 pm

was it a straight swap?

If you are of the opinion swapping an old bulb for a ballast unit, a new bulb and possibly a little bit of extra cabling, they are a straight swap :pokefun

Title: Re: hid
Post by: daviee on 14 February 2017, 02:50:25 pm

If you get the plug and play kit then it's a fairly easy job to do takes longer to hide the ballast boxes than it does to fit them I made a plate up and mounted the ballast boxes on it and hit it under the infill panel on the fairing

Title: Re: hid
Post by: Frosties on 14 February 2017, 06:48:52 pm

Quote from: BBROWN1664 on 14 February 2017, 09:05:51 am

Quote from: Skippernick on 13 February 2017, 10:14:40 pm

was it a straight swap?

If you are of the opinion swapping an old bulb for a ballast unit, a new bulb and possibly a little bit of extra cabling, they are a straight swap :pokefun

So BB.......was that a yes or a no  :pokefun

Title: Re: hid
Post by: Skippernick on 14 February 2017, 08:56:35 pm

I'll take that as a no then.

Title: Re: hid
Post by: Ferky on 15 February 2017, 04:34:07 pm

I have got hid's in my bike did some messing about with the headlight unit and managed to get two h4 bulbs fitted to it . looks the biz until I took it to get the lights aligned properly at the mot garage , the lights are not projecting a pattern so they cant align them up to the correct angles etc . they recommended putting standard h4 bulbs in ,

Title: Re: hid
Post by: BBROWN1664 on 15 February 2017, 05:53:28 pm

If you got the proper HID kits, you could have put an H1 and an H4 bulb in which may have helped.

When I had mine, the HID kit from HIDS4U was brilliant as I was able to get the beam low enough and straight enough to pass the MOT. Most people though just flick the original bulb back in for MOT time.

Title: Re: hid
Post by: daviee on 15 February 2017, 07:33:39 pm

the plug and play kit is just that but its hiding the ballast boxes that take a bit of work nothing hard but well worth the bother as they are so much brighter