(real) HID headlight education
 

I've got three vehicles that I'd like to upgrade to REAL HID lights, with ballast and everything. Obviously, there is a lot on eBay, and most of it is cheap imitation "blue" "xenon" bulbs.

My headlights are as follows:

H13 Ford Superduty (integrated hi/lo in same bulb)

9006/9005 GMC Yukon (separate hi/low bulbs)
want to convert foglights too, but not sure of bulbs

H7/H1 Mercedes Benz (separate hi/low bulbs)
H1 foglights

I am pretty certain that I want to covert ALL of them, hi/low/fogs to HID. I want to make sure I get a quality setup. I want to make sure I am not going to melt any housing.

Can anyone offer advice? Does anyone have experience with aftermarket conversion setups? Is there a preferred/dominant vendor?

Thanks in advance.

I went to pia offroad lights that are the strongest without installing a ballast. I now have more light than I need. with pia you are getting a quality bulb rather than a chinese knockoff

The HID Outdoor Equipment lights on ebay are the real deal....ballast and all. They are like $58 too.

Work very well on our Trailblazer SS. Wont ever go back.

On your Yukon.....i have a Tahoe with the same bulbs...from what ive read on other sites its not worth spending the coin for the real HID's cause it places the bulbs deeper in the housing and doesnt use the refective properties of the houseing right...again just what ive read....what i did was upgrade the bulbs to the sylvania silverstars...huge difference and nice and bright now...$30 well spent. :)

Oh and another thing i did was also upgrade the wiring supplying the bulbs.....the stock wiring draws juice from the headlight switch...ever go on a long trip and feel the switch before shutting it off???? it get damn hot! I made a harness with two relays for each side and the bulbs now draw juice straight from the Batt....the switch never warms up now :) its only used as a trigger for the relays

Post a pic of that harness and so ,please. I whant to do that to my suburban. Its a 96 though.

Thanks

Can you provide a link to the EBAY HID's that ARE good?
Thanks in advance!

Daredevil, what i ended up doing was getting some plug from an auto parts store and making up a harness to plug inplace of the orriginal light socket plugs......so basicly all you have to do is hook up batt +/- and run the plugs up to the headlights and unhook the orriginal plug and plug those into the harness and plug the new socket into the lights....that way if i ever decide to get rid of the trucvk i can put it all back to stock so the next guy doesnt have to try figuring it out incase a relay or something goes bad.....and if it does happen to go bad when on the road you can also go right back to stock in about 3min :)

I can draw up a schematic for ya and post it up or email you if you like :)

Just search for HID kits and "hid outdoor equipment" is the seller.

There are other places on the net that have kits for 100 and another for 188......but who knows if they are the same, just marked up.

It took some searching, but this is the seller I think you are referring to:

HID Outdoor Equipments is the STORE.

http://stores.ebay.com/HID-Outdoor-Equipments


Seller:
http://myworld.ebay.com/ebaymotors/lighting623/


You have to be very specific in the search query.

This seller has been recommended by a few of the members on the ford websites.

Hey brian go to xenonlink.com they are great and 6000k are pure white and really bright!! I put them in my headlights and fog light used the 9005 in the fogs. They are worth the money and put the in all my cars and trucks and have added them to all my friends cars since they seen mine.

You can get nice ones on ebay for like 125 bucks. Know a few guys with them, they are very nice. The days of the big ballast, exc is gone. Now they are using smaller digital ones, that do the same, are half the size. Like said it is good to research who you buy from on ebay, but there is good legit deals on these there.. :)

John jr