21-01-14, 01:00 PM
Like with most things you get what you pay for the market is flooded with cheap HID kits and yes their bright but the bulbs are crap!
The positioning of the bulb is curial if the reflector is to work as it was designed too only a few mm up, down, left, right, back or forwards makes all the difference to what beam pattern you get. As you can see in your videos the HID beam is bright but scattered with no real focal point this will dazzle on coming traffic and as you rightly point out provide little improvement over a standard bulb. Plus the way HID produces it's light is very different from standard bulbs and some bulb types will always produce a element of glare when used with a reflector not designed to use HID, unless you fit a bulb that is designed to work with it.
I spent a great deal of time some years ago finding the best combination of bulb, K value and supplier you MUST have a quality bulb or you get what you've got poor light.
The positioning of the bulb is curial if the reflector is to work as it was designed too only a few mm up, down, left, right, back or forwards makes all the difference to what beam pattern you get. As you can see in your videos the HID beam is bright but scattered with no real focal point this will dazzle on coming traffic and as you rightly point out provide little improvement over a standard bulb. Plus the way HID produces it's light is very different from standard bulbs and some bulb types will always produce a element of glare when used with a reflector not designed to use HID, unless you fit a bulb that is designed to work with it.
I spent a great deal of time some years ago finding the best combination of bulb, K value and supplier you MUST have a quality bulb or you get what you've got poor light.
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