Dodge Durango Forum II

Re^3: Let try again Halogen VS HID

> Sorry Gregg i did not follow you on this one, I hope NOT having high beams are legal, >(Lastly sans capacitor and ballast you're just getting blue colored bulbs) I hope you are >not refering to the HID'S, because these are 6000k, .

It depends on your state. In Hawaii it's illegal not to have hi-beams. I was mentioning that to folks who bought the initial Xenon Ultra Blue or Ultra White which are nothing close to HIDs and actually put out less light that the 9007s. I was one of them until I went to pass the safety check and didn't pass the light test as the output was way below minimum - hey but they looked blue...8-(

>Gregg , there is a kit also for 900.00 that DOES have high beams, we went through this >about 3 months ago so i decided to drop it because of the negitive post. Now that i had a >chance to REALLY use these i cant say enough about them.

They have indeed recently come to the market as AFTER market parts and not legal for street use. What really is the key here is that HIDs (and for those of you who have been with the Club a while, you may recall my raising this in a list of wishes for DC to incorporate for future Ds like: lifting tail glass window, electric spare lower, locking gas cap...) is the whole assembly: mirror, glass etc has to be aligned and fitted for the HID "bulb". And I place "bulb" in "" as it's not really a filament as a traditional bulb. To simply place the ignitor, ballast and bulb in the existing setting may place your beam all over the place.

Anyway everyone can make their own decision. Just research it first, I'd spend 900 bucks on other things personally (if I had it...)

greg

Sat Feb 1