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Old Apr 21, 2008 | 05:12 PM
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Dumb question, but can you put 12k HID's in the stock HID housing with no upgrade?
 
Old Apr 21, 2008 | 06:31 PM
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So, you already have HIDs, but you want to swap bulbs? Then yes, you can do that...just get the right style of bulb.
 
Old Apr 21, 2008 | 06:40 PM
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exactly, or if you have halogen bulbs now you can just buy a 12000k plug and play kit.

just an FYI if you didn't already know, that's going to be really purple. I suggest going with a lower Temp. but that's just my personal perference.
 
Old Apr 21, 2008 | 06:59 PM
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Yeah, I got 10K because I thought the blue color would look cool with the blue car but I'm wishing I would have gone like 8k now.
 
Old Apr 21, 2008 | 11:26 PM
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The high beams are a standard halogen bulb right? so you could go with the new silverstars for highs, now thinking like 10k lows and then the stock fogs are halogen too right?
 
Old Apr 21, 2008 | 11:33 PM
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The high beams are a standard halogen bulb right? so you could go with the new silverstars for highs, now thinking like 10k lows and then the stock fogs are halogen too right?
Yeah, highs are halogen, you could go with H7 silverstars. Stock fogs are halogen as well. I wouldn't go higher than 8K for the lows (Well, okay, I wouldn't go higher than 4300K)...you'll lose a significant amount of usable light above 8K.
 
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