HIDs installed

[Kougar]

Originally Posted by polishmafia

wah wah hater.

stop being one of the people who bitch about headlight glare. i already thought about it. for one, i aimed them down already so they arent right in someones eyes, and two, my eyelids on my car make a nice cutoff so people dont get blinded.

anyway, i used a night shot mode on my camera with a longer exposure so the pics make them look brighter than they are.

He's a hater because he's right and what you're doing is both unsafe and not legal? Hmm...

[Goat Blower]

Originally Posted by Kougar

He's a hater because he's right and what you're doing is both unsafe and not legal? Hmm...

And you both know all this from a few camera phone photos?

[Black97civic]

Originally Posted by Kevin_1G_Drummer

In your opinion, it may be a half assed install, but it's just that: your opinion. I do agree that there are better ways to do the HID conversion, but I don't see a problem with doing it this way.

I guess you can't argue with stupid. Yeah, other than it being not the right way to install them, being unsafe and illegal, its a pretty good install.

Yes, there will be more light, nobody is disputing that, but I could throw a coupe 10million candle power spotlights on the front of my car and have the same effect. The idea is to get more light out, and do it safely, like an OEM install. You do this by taking your time, not half assing it, and retrofitting an oem projector so the beam doesn't blind everyone else on the road so you can have sweet looking headlights

Originally Posted by Goat Blower

And you both know all this from a few camera phone photos?

And years of people proving that these installs suck.

[scheides]

Originally Posted by Black97civic

I guess you can't argue with stupid. Yeah, other than it being not the right way to install them, being unsafe and illegal, its a pretty good install.

Yes, there will be more light, nobody is disputing that, but I could throw a coupe 10million candle power a on the front of my car and have the same effect. The idea is to get more light out, and do it safely, like an OEM install. You do this by taking your time, not half assing it, and retrofitting an oem projector so the beam doesn't blind everyone else on the road so you can have sweet looking headlights



And years of people proving that these installs suck.

you need to calm down. Calling someone's work half-assed without having any specific reasons is just plain disrespectful. I see you make a few points about doing projectors and mounting stuff properly, but you're being too vague. If you really want to be semi useful, write up a project thread and show us how a proper hid conversion is supposed to be done. Don't just show up and insult someone's handywork.

[Black97civic]

Originally Posted by scheides

you need to calm down. Calling someone's work half-assed without having any specific reasons is just plain disrespectful. I see you make a few points about doing projectors and mounting stuff properly, but you're being too vague. If you really want to be semi useful, write up a project thread and show us how a proper hid conversion is supposed to be done. Don't just show up and insult someone's handywork.

What exactly do I need to be more specific about. Don't install HID's in halogen projectors, it makes for an overly bright and crappy beam pattern that has been proven to be unsafe, and deemed illegal by the DOT. Obviously there is a reason why it is legal in OEM applications and not when you do it like this.

As far as being useful and writing a guide, why would I do it when there are probably hundreds of them on the site that has already been posted. Go to hidplanet.com if you want to see the right way to do this install safely and legally.

Sorry if it is insulting, but if I wrote a thread about how I glued a turbo to my exhaust manifold, I would expect to get called out. Half-assed is what this install is, I'm not saying that this guy is a bad mechanic, or stupid or anything, but he didn't go about this install the right way.


Edit: Would everyone quit crying if I edited my posts and said "incorrectly installed" instead of "halfassed"?? I didn't realize this place was becoming so uptight, I remember the days when if someone did something incorrectly/riced out their car/acted like an idiiot, we could call them out on it.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Originally Posted by Black97civic

I guess you can't argue with stupid. Yeah, other than it being not the right way to install them, being unsafe and illegal, its a pretty good install.

Yes, there will be more light, nobody is disputing that, but I could throw a coupe 10million candle power spotlights on the front of my car and have the same effect. The idea is to get more light out, and do it safely, like an OEM install. You do this by taking your time, not half assing it, and retrofitting an oem projector so the beam doesn't blind everyone else on the road so you can have sweet looking headlights



And years of people proving that these installs suck.

Dude, Like Schiedes said, you need to calm down a little. Just because I may not agree with your high and mighty headlight install methods, doesn't mean you should be calling me stupid. As for the legality of it, It may be illegal, and like you said, he probably won't get pulled over for it, so what's the big deal? I'm sure you have nothing on your car that doesn't break any laws If someone is behind you with their "Dazzeling" headlights, there is a little thing on your mirror that you can flip to make things darker. If they're oncoming, the lights won't be in your eyes for too long. So as long as you're not driving in a unsafe manner to begin with, there shouldn't be a problem with it. I know I've never had a problem with them.