Friday, Aug 19, 2016 at 14:52
Phil,
I guess it comes down to personal tastes and experiences.
Over the past 40+ years I've had all manner of additional lighting on my various vehicles.
When HIDs came on the market I paid over $1,600- for a pair of H4 replacements for my Nissan's normal headlights (ie: high/low beam). Now I've gotta admit that over all those years of driving, I've wasted a lot of money on various gadgets and gizmos....but those TOP QUALITY (hahahaha) HID lamps were the BIGGEST waste of dough EVER!!!
Half the time they didn't even work at all and whilst the bloke who sold them to me was good at supplying replacement globes and/or ballasts, they were never much chop AND I used to get people flashing me very often, even when I was on low beam!! That is why the law stipulates that you can't retrofit HIDs into a vehicle not designed for them and without self levelling and washers.
So, I went back to standard halogen headlights and added HID
driving lights of various sizes and brands....mainly Lightforce. Again, they had that "sexy" blue/white tinge....but to MY eyes they were rubbish.
So, that's why I've gone back to good old halogen for my main long distance
driving lights (Fyrlyt Nemises) and supplemented by a 180w light bar for close up work. I've also used the fog light circuit on the Chev (there were no foggies on the truck, but the plugs were there) and fitted small LED bars. I'm waiting for some
orange acrylic sheet to arrive from ebay and I will make new lenses for those 2 little buggars!
Roachie
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