H.i.d's - How Much K's Should One Go?

[Spunky Munky]

Hey fellas,

I've finally decided to go get a nice set of H.I.D's for my car - was wondering how bright should I go?

I found that in general, H.I.D's come in 3 intensity levels - 6K, 8K and 10K.

Apparently:

The colour of the light source is expressed as its colour temperature. As the colour temperature increases, the colour of the light moves from blue to white. HID headlights provide light at a higher colour temperature than standard halogen headlights, which gives them a crisp white appearance. More K does not mean it is brighter. 6000K lamps provide a pure white with very little blue colour. 8000K lamps are light blue/white in colour. 10000K lamps are closest to blue with very little white colour.

I want mine to be really white - so does this mean go for the 6K, however, a few others suggested that go 8K - as it's more brighter light and with a touch of blue, it makes the car look better and night...

Your thoughts?

http://www.carmate.com/product_details.php...&p_id=12478

Thanks again fellas.

[Chi100188]

6000k look white wiht a little bit of blue tinge...so they look legal but i guess the rest is illegal cause 8000k is blue as matey but i think HIDs are illegal....u need a whole bunch of stuff to make it legal such as in this link:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Hid-s-t198973.html

hope that helps

Cheers

Chi

[DAV-R32]

i got 6000k nice and white

[ferni]

The most light will come from 4300-5000k. Going much higher than that and you start to give up usable light for the blue/purple look.

So if you want good light then go for 4300 or 5000k, if you want rice then go for 6000-8000k. Also adding HID bulbs to normal headlights never look as good as proper factory Xenons.

[POLICE]

I think 6000K to 8000K is the ideal setting

4300K to 5000K will f*ck up anyone's eyes driving towards you

[Modena]

If its for the R33 then I wouldnt do it.

[nissanmanS12]

I got HID's in my R34. With the stock xenon headlights they look awsum, altho not very brite at all! Well they are quite bright up to a certain point on the road and then they die, about 50m ahead you can see quite well and then theres pretty much no light from that point onwards.. quite crap really. but an awsum gaybo rice look

[Oddy man]

I heard (before I got my H.I.Ds(I sell them now)) that 10000k was pretty blue.

For some fun, I ordered extra bulbs (15000k was the highest I got - the highest I can get hold of is 30000k)

After playing around with all of them I can say that even the 15000k bulbs are not really blue.

Furthermore, no HIDs are going to give you 'pure' blue headlights[they wouldn't be any use while driving anyway]

They do go up in strength all the way to ultraviolet, but bear in mind that the transition is slow

There is not a lot of visual colour difference between the 6000k and 10000k, the 10000k appear brighter (they are) but they don't project as far on the road.

6000k are probably your best bet, since they remain useful (better than halogens!!) and are a nice clean white.

Be careful though, because some police don't like them

Edited January 14, 2008 by Oddy man

[sloutch]

The most light will come from 4300-5000k. Going much higher than that and you start to give up usable light for the blue/purple look.

So if you want good light then go for 4300 or 5000k, if you want rice then go for 6000-8000k. Also adding HID bulbs to normal headlights never look as good as proper factory Xenons.

I told Spunky to go for 6000k MAX. Never go above that unless he wants lots of attention on the road which includes the police.

[adam-__-]

All sorts of HID's are illegal unless your car had it as an option or you had them engineered with cleaners, level adjusters, etc.

The brightest temperature is 4300k, it's the same colour as our natural light from the sun. It's white. As you go cooler (4000k), it gets yellow. As you get higher (6000k), it goes blue. For the best light output, go for 4300k. Anymore and you're looking at rice.

If you're planning on putting these in the R33's reflector housing, you're gonna blind everyone on and around the road.

I highly recommend you stay with the standard halogen style globes. Your headlights were designed to use halogens.

[funkymonkey]

4100 - 5200 is white... any higher it gets blue and any lower it gets yellow. as said above this range gives you the brightest light.

[HR31_RB20DET]

Just to give you an idea I've got 4300k HID's in my 31 and this is a pic that compares against the standard bulb.

[Spunky Munky]

fellas - how long do hid's generally last?

[adam-__-]

fellas - how long do hid's generally last?

I would say that it really depends on the brand of globe, but apparently HID's last 3-4 times longer than halogen's.

[br3ndan]

i got Super Vison HID in my r33... HID are legal only if you get 6000k. I used to have 10 000k but got picked on too much for being too blue. So swapped them out for 6000k and ive never been picked on again...

Bulbs should last around 3-4 times longer then the normal one and they actually use less power ! (35 watts compared to 60 odd wats for normal ones)!! You can get china made ones off ebay for only 150 bucks. ...

I recommend you go for 6000k as changing them out all the time is annoying! once you have HID.. u will never want to go back!

[Granthem]

the 6000k thing isnt true. ADRs say they need to be self leveling and have some sort of cleaning wiper? nothing to do with the k of them

[lingeringsoul]

all the new cars being sold today have blue looking light, talk about double standards

i hear around 4500 is white, 6000 is bluish white, 8000 is blue, 10000 is blue/purple 15000 is purple

[SkylineSII]

Slide has them for just shy of $100 less and has stock of different temps

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Hi...-H-t202927.html

[adam-__-]

the 6000k thing isnt true. ADRs say they need to be self leveling and have some sort of cleaning wiper? nothing to do with the k of them

What this guy's saying is correct. It doesn't matter if they're 6000k or 8000k globes, they're illegal unless you've got those cleaners and adjusters from factory.

all the new cars being sold today have blue looking light, talk about double standards

The blue light isn't from the globes themselves. The blue is created by the projector's refracting the light into it's separate speeds and blue just happens to be the only one most wanted (you can play around with the projector's shield and you can get red light). Headlights which have HID's from factory will always have a globe around the 4300k mark.

Edited January 26, 2008 by adam-__-

[NYTSKY]

I had 8000k in my car and was promptly defected for them.IMO HIDs dont work very well with reflector style headlights.Too many hot and cold spots,not to mention on coming traffic getting blinded.

All types of HIDs are illegal except for cars equipped with self leveling and a cleaning system fitted.

If you are going to get HIDs i would recommend 4300k-6000k.8000k is too blue.