Does anyone know or have any problems with installing H.I.D. into the JDM style Headlights?


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We don't recommend it in the US since the glare angle on the JDM headlights are to the left and the glare angle on the USDM headlights are to the right to light up road signs. So using JDM headlights, you are going to blind every single passing motorist that goes by you. We do recommend using the USDM headlights for you HID conversion.

 

im talking about the JDM Style = knockoffs...the fake ones that cost about $200..haha..would those have good light output with HIDs?

 

Yes.

 

I wouldn't recommend, like what hype8912, said your headlights will glare like a bitch.

 

You would just have to aim your headlights to the right, thats all.
If you put HID's in any reflector headlamp. you will have glare.
Although, I have a 4500 Catz kit in my stock headlights, and glare is minimal.

 

I don't know how you could say that.

I too have a 5th gen, and no matter how i aimed them, they still glare. It's because HID bulbs are not meant to be used on halegon reflectors. Although it's just light, they don't work the same. I fixed my problem by retrofiting HID projectors in there.

 

all aftermarket housing have crappy output, hotspots, irregular pattern, FOUL cutoff, they don't concentrate on the optics very well, that's why they are MUCH cheaper than OEM. The only housings that responds to hid very well are OEM. If they are true JDM knock-off with the flare to the wrong side they would be obnoxious with HID, you would be blinding every single passing car, and I don't mean a mild streak of light past their eyes, I mean they would get to see the beam first hand as bright as can be. For the price of those housings and that HID kit you could get a bi-xenon BMW complete setup. For few hundred see_fu would install them in your housings for you, and you will have better light than you ever thought possible. I detest real HID kits in bad housings, it hurts other drivers.

 

I said glare was minimal!!!
I still have glare.

 

my bad me no speaka inglish gooda.