| really cheap projector headlights - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| EK9Hatch |
The seller has over 28,000 feedback, so I would say its legit.
As for the price, it reflects the quality for sure. Those look like shit and would probably leak within minutes of installation.
Jamie |
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| Beerking |
| sorry but they are fugly!! keep the ones you got |
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| BRITAIN1.8 |
| Coool.. get em. Remember to seal them with a bead of silicone prior to installing them.then you'll be set.! All ebay headlights fog up! |
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| euro_fcuk |
| Theya re fugly but you dont have much of a choice with sealed beam replacements. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
| GE or Osram have a 4x6 HID projector replacement.. in the range of $800-$1200 though... they have a bubble on the front, so if you headlights flip down prolly won't work.. saw them on a truck once.. looked good, and 100% legal. |
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| chris f |
| After market HID is not legal, it has to have the proper housing for the low beam break and they have to auto adjust. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by chris f
After market HID is not legal, it has to have the proper housing for the low beam break and they have to auto adjust.
The GE or Osram is legal.. has optics and bulb all built into one unit. and comes with a seperate hi-beam bulb... That one on E-bay would be legal with normal halogen bulbs.
I have legal HID's(bulbs and ballasts, meet SAE spec), but if they want to pester me they can about the housings. |
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| s2k |
just a bit pricey hahaha
The real problem is the fit, since it's for flip ups
are you currently using a set of these? |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
| no, but I'm very tempted to get them.. I saw the projectors on the front of a truck.. looked slick.... but do have a bubble that sticks out.. there is a set on there that doesn't look to be projector so they would work..... |
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| s2k |
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Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
no, but I'm very tempted to get them.. I saw the projectors on the front of a truck.. looked slick.... but do have a bubble that sticks out.. there is a set on there that doesn't look to be projector so they would work.....
Reflector HID setups rarely perform as well as projectors. If they actually have a decent cutoff and don't glare, then i would buy these in a heartbeat, but im kinda sketchy about reflectors. I don't wanna spend 575 dollars and still glare like the ricers out there with their reflector HID setups. |
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| chris f |
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Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
The GE or Osram is legal.. has optics and bulb all built into one unit. and comes with a seperate hi-beam bulb... That one on E-bay would be legal with normal halogen bulbs.
I have legal HID's(bulbs and ballasts, meet SAE spec), but if they want to pester me they can about the housings.
SAE stands for Society of Automotive Engineers, it has nothing to do with whats leagal and whats not. Alot of what you see on cars is requard by law but no one has seen the laws. Did you know that brake and signal lights can not be mounted on on a hatch, tailgate or trunk lid?
Real HID's dont have a hi beam and a low beam blub. they just have one bulb. and a cover.
This is on my car, the volvo. frist two are low beam, look at the distitave line where the light stops.
Second two are high beam, you can see the line still but the light goes a full 360, same bulb, use of a splitter, or shade
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Chris, My Hella ECE's with a single bulb HID hi/lo with a cover have a very very similar cut off to that.
The ones in the link I posted have a sperate bulb within the housing, similar to your volvo for the additional hi beam
As far as SAE having nothing to do with what's legal and not... take another look at the Alberta Vehicle Regulations...
It's must meet SAE spec this, SAE spec that...
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General standards
4(1) The following standards respecting lamps on vehicles are adopted and apply to a light or lamp incorporated in or attached to a vehicle:
(a) section 108 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Canada), including Technical Standards Document No. 108;
(b) the alternative standards adopted by section 108.1 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (Canada):
(c) SAE J583 Revised June 1993 applies to fog lamps marked SAE F;
(d) SAE J595 applies to warning lamps marked SAE W for emergency, maintenance and service vehicles;
(e) SAE J887 applies to warning lamps marked SAE W2 for school buses;
(f) SAE J845 applies to 360 degree emergency warning lamps marked SAE W3;
(g) SAE J1318 applies to 360 degree gaseous discharge lamps marked SAE W5;
(h) SAE J581 applies to driving lamps marked SAE Y.
Also if you look at:
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High and low beams
7(1) The headlamps on a motor vehicle, other than a moped, must comply with subsections (2), (3) and (4).
(2) A headlamp must have a low beam that can reveal a person or another vehicle that is at least 30 metres ahead.
(3) A headlamp must have a high beam
(a) that can reveal a person or another vehicle that is at least 100 metres ahead, and
(b) that does not shine in the eyes of an approaching driver.
(4) A motor vehicle must be equipped so that the driver is able to choose either
(a) to change the headlamps to high beams or to low beams by hand, or
(b) to switch to the control that automatically changes the headlamps to high beams or to low beams.
Some cars, such as sunfires' don't meet that from factory... but comparing say my current HID setup and a 95-99 sunfire.... my headlights are easier on the eyes for approaching traffic... never been flashed once either.. which happens all the time in the wife's car with stock bulbs(neon, but with Depo diamond clear headlights with DOT and SAE markings) |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by chris f
i stand corrected on the sae, never rememberd that all thoes times i read the regs.
I was reading the Canada highway safty act and it has alot more info then the alberta one. it also has the tests for lights, patterns that are legal.
The volvo is a one bulb system, and you keep getting flashed with the wifes car because your lights are not aimed proplery, Adam had the depo clears and never had a problem
http://www.tc.gc.ca/acts-regulation...g/toc_mvsrg.htm
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/mvstm_tsd/index_e.htm
We're kinda off topic, but the DkJohns(if he was still around) would argue the federal regs are for new car manufacturers only. The federal regs even state how exhaust volume levels need to be tested.
Didn't Adam run first gen neons? My wife has a second gen, they were aimed by a bodyshop, they're just friggin bright, even more so since I put the eurospec silverstars in I got from Travis.
On topic... I've bought a number of e-bay cheapy h4 conversions int he h4656 bulb style.. they normally ship with wannabe hid lights that look good, have stock wattages marked on them, but they started to melt the plug sockets, two bulbs even pealed the chrome coating off the inside of the housing. The front glass is thin(comparitively) so the crack easy. Every one of the 4 I got from e-bay and the pair of "eurolight" tucan housing the glas cracked, the tucan's the glass cracked and popped off the ceramic back part with the reflector.
in comparision, the Hella's I'm currently running are in really good shape, no cracks, some slight pitting from highway driving behind trucks.
So with these conversions you do get what you pay for. |
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