HID Conversion Kits

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Spotted a group buy for a H7 Single beam HID kit on FFOC which has been running for over a year, the single beam kit is £65 all in.

These kits seem amazing quality and receive nothing but praise in the thread in question (20 page thread!). The HID kit is apparently the same as the HID4U kit's but without their sticker. I've ordered the H7 kit for the MK1.5's they also do a Bi-Xenon kit for the MK1's, went for 6000k colour temp which seems to be the most popular choice without being OTT like >8000k.

Looking forward to fitting them mid next week with my new ST lamps. Anyone else use/used these kits and your thoughts on them?.

Of course I will be getting them fully aligned immediately after fitting to avoid blinding anyone.

HID's are coming from www.xlsperformance.com.

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[TW]Fox;11111502 said:
Can't really fit HID's to them then.

Course you can. Ten's of Focus owners have fitted them with no issue.

The ST lights are exactly the same as mine apart from being smoked.
 
Course you can. Ten's of Focus owners have fitted them with no issue.

No issue that they can perceived from behind the wheel of their car after being used to driving with Halogens, you mean.

There is a reason why you never, ever find standard fit HID headlights in anything other than a projector lense.

I'm getting a bit fed up of being blinded round town by people in cars with regular headlights who think they can just slap a cheap HID kit and it'll be great.
 
Fox the beam scatter is really a none issue since they will be aligned just as my halogens the only difference being they will put out more light but if the beam is correctly aligned the problem is minimal.
 
Just because they don't care about the light scatter, doen't mean they are fine.
Unless they go into projector lamps then they will dazzle other drivers.

You cannot align them in the same way as halogen bulbs, it doesn't work that way.
 
Fox the beam scatter is really a none issue since they will be aligned just as my halogens the only difference being they will put out more light but if the beam is correctly aligned the problem is minimal.

ConfusedTA! We've got another one here who needs educating.
 
Fox the beam scatter is really a none issue since they will be aligned just as my halogens the only difference being they will put out more light but if the beam is correctly aligned the problem is minimal.

You can align them as much as you like - but without a projector the majority of the light gets scattered about. You need the projector to properly focus the beam pattern.

They will be better than your existing setup, but it is also very likely that you will be wasting most of the extra light casting glare in random directions and ******* off other road users.
 
Read that someone on FFOC had an MOT tester comment that this particular kit had less scatter than his previous halogen bulbs.
 
Very doubtful. The halogen must have been atrociously aligned for that to be the case, and it's hardly justification for doing the same.
 
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