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Old Jan 5, 2007 | 05:34 AM
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i think i get it now. I need to get the conversion for my high beams. but my low beams should be fine. does anyone know of any good conversion kits that arent to pricy. i know i will probly spend around 250ish after everything. are the ones 96audi said a good idea? can you do it for foglights too are is that dumb? Thanks to everyone for helping
O and one more thing if i was to get the conversion kit what kind of bulbs should i get? H1-H7? or what for high beams and it wont hurt my casing for the lights will it?
 
Old Jan 5, 2007 | 07:14 PM
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You could try this site for $139: http://www.fashtek.com/?gclid=CK6Iga...FQ-9VAodLgnAPA
I couldn't vouch for the quality though. You will need H7 bulbs and the casings should be fine.
 
Old Jan 5, 2007 | 09:15 PM
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cstarky15, with your car facing a wall,turn
on you low beams. If they take two seconds
to focus they are HIDs.
 
Old Jan 5, 2007 | 09:19 PM
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When i turn my lights on they take a second or so to focus and then are a lite blue color. i will try to take pictures to show my car but still have no time. Thanks 96audi ill check them out if ne1 else has a good site plz let me know.
 
Old Jan 5, 2007 | 09:35 PM
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ORIGINAL: cstarky15

When i turn my lights on they take a second or so to focus and then are a lite blue color. i will try to take pictures to show my car but still have no time. Thanks 96audi ill check them out if ne1 else has a good site plz let me know.
if they are blue for a second or two then you have hids
 
Old Jan 6, 2007 | 02:37 AM
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You must buy the kit. The car is a 12V system. Xenon bulbs operate by using a power ballast that drives a roughly 20,000V electric arc between two electrodes in the bulb (at each end of a glass container of xenon gas), which excites the electrons chemically and causes the gas to give off light. 12V from a car system would never even tickle an HID bulb, let alone power one. No way around it - you need the kit. They're pretty reasonable in cost now.

 
Old Jan 6, 2007 | 02:40 AM
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...in a different car. Fashtek's service was fantastic and very fast to ship, but I had an annoying flicker from time to time in either or sometimes both of the bulbs. It could be a faulty part, but it might also be a not-so-good design. I don't know for sure, but I sold the kit with the car it was in. I have a couple friends who have kits from them and never saw such issues, so my kit may have been a fluke.
 
Old Jan 6, 2007 | 07:05 PM
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If his low beams take a second or two to focus, he has HIDs.
If it was factory installed they are D2S. If they are after market
probably H7.
 
Old Jan 7, 2007 | 01:07 AM
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H7 is a bulb style. D2S refers to a designation of a bulb meant for a projector housing. If it was an HID meant for a reflector style housing, it'd be a D2R. It can be either D2S or D2R and still be H7 (or H1, H11, 9006, 9005, etc). The designation as D2S or D2R refers to headlamp housing design, not bulb style.
 
Old Jan 8, 2007 | 05:46 AM
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well thanks for all the help i guess the next question is do i need the bi-xenon kit or just a single one if i want my high beams to be HID also?
 



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