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mattyprice4004 · 8 Oct 2013 at 22:39

Had 4300K in the last HID kit I had, and have fitted new 4300K burners to the ZT-T (already had Xenons).

Best choice, most light (IMO of course).

Matt82 · 8 Oct 2013 at 22:48

Tried to get a shot of the m3 earlier but it didn't come out well

[TW]Fox · 8 Oct 2013 at 23:01

andy_mk3 said:

Ouch, the unacceptable face of Xenon retrofits right there

andy_mk3 · 8 Oct 2013 at 23:07

[TW]Fox;25081823 said:
Ouch, the unacceptable face of Xenon retrofits right there

That was because I'd just fitted them into brand new headlights, plus the camera phone makes them look a lot worse. I adjusted them up the next day at work and the beam pattern was perfect. They were proper projector lens headlights too.

Draeger · 8 Oct 2013 at 23:40

Is that an Astra?

Tom|Nbk · 8 Oct 2013 at 23:42

Look at that glare, the picture alone is melting my eyeballs

andy_mk3 · 8 Oct 2013 at 23:57

I just explained the glare :rolleyes:

kash786 · 9 Oct 2013 at 07:34

Ignore

kash786 · 9 Oct 2013 at 07:34

Ignore

Howard · 9 Oct 2013 at 08:08

4300k is the most standard OEM HID colour temperature, and that's pretty much pure white. Mine, shown in my sig, are 4300k with fresh Philips bulbs. Any lower and you'll get blue tinges up close and the quantity of visible light drops off, although I can tell that some newer stuff, Mercedes' etc seem to have a slightly cooler temperature, probably 5000k, I guess to match the DRLs better.

[TW]Fox · 9 Oct 2013 at 08:31

andy_mk3 said:
I just explained the glare

Well no, that glare isn't caused simply by headlight alignment! I think you'd need to do more than 'adjust' them to fix that. It's a Mk3 Astra, it never had projectors, so presumably they are Ebay ones in there?

rjk · 9 Oct 2013 at 08:52

anyone here running HIDs in projectors and had successful MOT with them?

I took mine out last year for the test on the off chance that they failed the car for it.

kash786 · 9 Oct 2013 at 08:57

I've gone for the 4300k set, will see how I go.

Matt82 · 9 Oct 2013 at 09:16

You wont be disappointed

Draeger · 9 Oct 2013 at 09:22

rjkoneill said:
anyone here running HIDs in projectors and had successful MOT with them?

I took mine out last year for the test on the off chance that they failed the car for it.

Never had any MoT problems with kits I've had retro-fitted on previous cars. As long as its done with a bit of common sense it has absolutely no reason to be a problem.

Rilot · 9 Oct 2013 at 09:25

andy_mk3 said:
I had 5600k on mine, very slight hint of blue but very white still.

Pics of bad retrofit....

This is what's causing xenon retrofits to be frowned on.

andy_mk3 said:
They were proper projector lens headlights too.

Not on a mk3 Astra they weren't.

It drives me nuts night-driving when someone with a corsa / astra / focus / fiesta with "well sweet innit" 8000k HIDs in reflector lamps comes the other way, not giving a stuff about who they blind.

kash786 · 9 Oct 2013 at 10:05

Rilot said:
This is what's causing xenon retrofits to be frowned on.

Not on a mk3 Astra they weren't.

It drives me nuts night-driving when someone with a corsa / astra / focus / fiesta with "well sweet innit" 8000k HIDs in reflector lamps comes the other way, not giving a stuff about who they blind.

You'd have to be a bit of a numpty to retrofit HIDs in reflector lamps!

kash786 · 12 Oct 2013 at 00:20

Would anyone know if i'd need a 'CANBUS ERROR FREE' set? I've got a set which isn't, just wondering if there's any point in attempting to fit?

It's for a '04 BMW 320cd.

[TW]Fox · 12 Oct 2013 at 00:44

You'll probably need a resistor in the wiring loom to stop it triggering the bulb out warning light.

Craigius · 12 Oct 2013 at 08:05

Rilot said:
It drives me nuts night-driving when someone with a corsa / astra / focus / fiesta with "well sweet innit" 8000k HIDs in reflector lamps comes the other way, not giving a stuff about who they blind.

I have to agree when you see these people with purple head lights coming towards you on a dark road its stupid and personally not enough is being done to stop people fitting them i have factory fitted Xenons on my car and yes they are bright but at least the lens doesn't deflect light when dirty blinding other road users!
(rant over)