HID on your Civic FD

[JOhnnyFD]

hey guys,

just wondering if anyone has put on HIDs

coz since its been raining a few times this past week, i noticed when i put on my lowbeams at night when it rains (i rather not put on my high beams unless its pitch black), i didnt even notice my lights were on until i drive up behind a car and able to see the light reflection.

i replaced the oem lowbeam 51W HB4 9006 lights bulbs to a 55W 4200k, its brighter and whiter than oem but still having abit of trouble seeing clearly at night when it especially rains

so i ordered in some HIDs 6000k (since its legal limit, crystal white and is recommended for foggy and rainy conditions) since a few other ppl recommended that i should put em on.. has anyone else here had that kind of trouble.

[ksl]

i think hid will give you less vision when it rain,

well, i helped my friend to install a set of hid in his FD, for normal weather night, it improve alot, the light shine a wider area,

but in rain, i think the oem yellow bulb are better than the hid,

thats why all factory hid will include fog light as standard, for better vision when there are fog and rain

[howy]

Yeah, I pretty much put in HIDs as soon as I got the car.

Rainy weather will always reduce visibility and lighting, stock light bulbs aren't that great to begin with.

I'm running some cheap 6k ones, and I don't have much trouble in rainy conditions. Another idea would be to consider getting projector headlights as there would be a huge advantage of having them (focusing and directing the light down onto the road and because it's the right thing to do)

For foggy conditions, use foglights because the white light from HIDs cannot penetrate the fog as it's also white.

[Waternmo]

its actually becoz of the colour temperature of the HID/ light bulb, 3000K with yellow light will shine through the water particles when raining, the higher the colour temperature, it'll only get brighter when you look into the light, but the actual light shining onto the road will be less and less. plus the more "white -> blue" it gets, the larger amount of light will be reflected by the water particles when raining, thats y when u r driving with 8000K or higher (no matter HID or halogen) u'll notice fog and rain in front of the car is more visible and the higher the colour temp it is, the brighter it shines back at you, becoz the water particles can relfect high colour temp light...

[Shimian]

im running hid 6000k with eagle eyes and its fine in the rain

[Wayne]

My Current 6000k Headlights And Foglights..


Previous 8000k Headlights

[black8thgen]

my eyes are hurting lol. that shit is bright as

[Waternmo]

very nice! cant wait until i install my 6500K hid, hey Wayne, are they MTEC halogens used for the fog lights? or are they HID converted as well?

[Wayne]

both HID.. china HID.. =)

parker light using PIAA forgot which model.. i know is the top model.. =)

[.k.]

so the foggies have a ballast each like the headlights? lights + foggie hid looks good wayne, wat brand / link to where you got them?

[Wayne]

yeah.. each got their own ballast.. hehe.. thanks.. erm.. i got fren at china.. so i ask him to get for me.. if im not wrong is around 60-70 USD each set.. =)

[Waternmo]

haha, same as wat i did with my old car mazda 3, 10000K HID for low beam and fog lights and a set of 3000K HID for the high beam for Mt Nebo cruises... hehe, good old time