XENON headlight upgrades

I know three people that have, four if you include Nick Mannell.

One member on here his name shall be a secret is SO SCARED of using his HID inserts that his wife is paying out on him buying them, So go ask Mrs Lucy if you want to know more....oops the cat may be out of the bag.

Roachie's got them too he reckons they're OK and I have seen Narva HID inserts in an 80 series they go alright too.

Are you talking about a actual full HID system proper set up worth like $1000 or the replacement globes that replicate HID lighting but are still the same wattage as normal halogen globes.

The full HID system is amazing, a mate has a HID torch about the size of a small Mag light and it is unbelievable the light output this thing has.

The HID insert globes are all right but would not even compare to a real HID system, I have the Philips version (Crystal Vision 60/55W> 120/130W equivalent) of them and they work better than normal globes but the CIBIE spotlights still easily out power them.

I would go a Good set of HID spotlight’s IE Light Force over upgrading the Cars existing light’s to a HID sytem persionly.

Hey, OMN, I upgraded my LC105 LOW beams only, to a fuLL HID system. was about $350 from memory. ( the 9005 globe set i think). I got my system through these guys www.brightlightautoparts.com/ - an aussie company. Ringwood or croydon somewhere i think.

pretty much a plug and play install. - yep as someone has said, only draw 35 watt instead of 55, and as you'll see on the webpage, actually run cooler than the halogens.

Mate, These things are unbelieveable. I figured that 90 % of MY night driving was suburban, therefore only upgraded low beams. Now its like driving round in an expensive beamer/merc/lexus. The white daylight vision is unbelievable. makes things so much easier to see,

For long range stuff, I'v got the IPF spotties.

In two words, Do it.

Jarrod.

Thanks for the reposnes guys,

The ones i am looking a tare the full proper lights globes of teh right sort for the 100 series with the ballasts and all, NOT the globes that claim to be XENON like.

I spoke with one 4WD drive outlet and said mty mate and i had a fairly robust discussion about whether his replacement globes for his Nissan were XENON or not. He even showed me the pack they have XENON written all over them and i even left thinking bleep are these XENON. Yet he didnt have to use ballasts just repalce the globes so i still couldn't understand how they could be XENON. Plus when i queried the price i knew no way were they XENON.

This week in my search to finds out what globes that are XENON exist i got onto someone at this place who knows XENON and yep they are XENON liek globes NOT actual XENON.

That is off track but you need to be careful there are a lot of light globes out there that have XENON written on the pack and the words like like and others in small print.

Anyway the ones i am lookign at ar ethe full bottle wiht the ballasats and all.

thanks again and i'll let you know how i go.

Mark

I bought the Philips plus 50 crystal vision thingo's for my Cibie spot lights, and although they were whiter, they certainly were not brighter, so I bleep them off.

I put the same type in my headlights and they work a treat.

As for HID, yeah, one power ball !!!!

You can buy Quartz Halogen type globes to simply replace the factory globes that have Xenon gas or a mix of Xenon gas in place of Halogen gas. For the same wattage, these are only a little brighter and whiter than standard globes. Some of these claim to be much brighter like the plus 30% and plus 50% and some are just whiter light.

I have tested several different brands and found that most are not much brighter unless you go to higher wattage and upgrade the wiring loom or go to true HID.

Stay away from Autotechnica brand Xenon Gold-Max 100w globes, they look good with bright gold plated globe tip and give out a very good bright white light but they get too hot, pop and smoke the reflector, etching the glass and buggering the headlight.

However, the Autotechnica Xenon Silver-Max Platinum globes also give out a very good bright white light and have given me 2 years of good use so far.

Night Vision brand Xenon 100w globes were also reasonably bright white light but only lasted a year.
Phillips blue vision globes were a disappointment.

ARB have also imported some good brand globes but I have not tried them.

I have also tried the Lightforce 240 HID spotlights and WHOOOOOH they are amazingly bright but when I dip the spots, it is like being plunged into the dark again.

I have not yet found a true HID globe to replace my H4 globes which have both high and low beam in the same globe.
Geordie

I looked into getting a HID conversion kit put into the Paj. I needed a H4 Hi/low HID system to do it properly. I ran across Frank from www.xenonoz.com.au. He knows his stuff and has a number of different kits available. While I did not end up getting the conversion due to cost I would love to have the 50W HID system for both my spots and driving lights......ah dreaming again.