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Old Dec 17, 2005 | 09:38 AM
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XenonDepot offers HID kits. You'll have to order the kit which matches your stock bulb size. In my 2000 Accord, my stock bulb size is a 9006, so I ordered a 9006 kit.

Within the kit, you'll be given 2 major pieces, the ballast and the bulb. The ballast is what powers the bulb. You take your stock bulb harness, plug it into the ballast. From the ballast, you take a new cable (supplied) and plug that into your 9006 HID (supplied) bulb. It's a very very simple install, the most difficult part being where to mount the ballast.

The stock headlight housing isn't meant for HID use. The shape and dimensions of the internal reflectors will fracture the light causing blinding glare to oncoming traffic. With the kits available, you'll be able to see just fine ... but everyone around you will get blinded.


People choose to actually "retrofit" projector lenses into their Accord's headlight housing. They phyically remove a projector from a car that has them (BMW, S2K, Audi, Infinty, etc) and fit them where needed. This is a very difficult, and more expensive, install.

The results are stunning though. You won't blind oncoming traffic, they physically look good in the housing, and you get a percision cutoff line with the projectors.

Like I said earlier, this is the most difficult way to do this. You'll need to find donor projectors, then the HID unit from that car. This could run up to $1,500 in parts alone. The install is no walk in the park too.


Instead of jamming in kits, or cutting in projectors, TYC offers replacement headlight housings for the Accord. The difference between TYC and every other eBay brand is quality.

Purchase the TYC lamp, and the matching kit from XenonDepot. (the TYC lamp changes the stock bulb size, so you'll have to further research what it actually is) This provides the best solution with safty, ease, and staisfaction considered.
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