Sineo, I was looking at the Visionbulbs' guide.

Thanks Upstate, that makes more sense. Yeah, all that stuff gets confusing for a DIY noob. I'm trying to do this on my own and it's probably gonna the first time I've ever done this so I wanted to be clear before i started. Now it's a bit more clear of what I have to do. I think I might give it a shot tomorrow or sometime this weekend. Just have to figure out where to mount the ballast and gotta drill the hole perfectly for the wires.

 

If you have an air intake that has replaced your airbox, there's a bolt on the fender on the passenger side. I used that to mount my passenger side ballast (mine came with mounting brackets). On the driver's side, I had mounted it using one of the fender bolts for the power steering reservoir. Ideally, you'd remove the headlights and mount them beneath there, so they're completely out of the way and hidden. Removing the headlights is easy to do also, so it might be worth your while to do it that way.

 

No, I don't have an aftermarket intake, it's all stock. I actually tried installing the damn thing right now but ended getting frustrated. It's not that it was hard or anything, it's just the retarted issue that I have to drill into the plastic cover for the light but the biggest drillbit I have is 1/2 when I need about 1" to get the plug through. Now I have to go get a new drillbit so I can make the hole big enough. It shouldn't be too hard. I thought about taking the lights out to do it too but I don't have the right tools to make that happen. I would need a whole new set of tools but I'm strapped for cash. It sucks that I'm the only car guy from all my friends otherwise I could've asked one of them for help. Too bad I don't know any Sactown Audi groups.

 

Let me understand, you're trying to install HID lights into regular reflector headlights? You do realize you'll be blinding oncoming traffic, right?

For proper use of HID lights you also need PROJECTORS. Otherwise your reflector headlights will disperse the light every which way, blinding others at night and pissing off cops.

If you have projector headlights, disregard my comments, otherwise start looking for projectors.

 

Some of it may depend on the aiming. I had them in my reflectors for over a year and was never highbeamed once. But it's true that the reflectors will spread the light upward more than a projector does, so there's more of a risk of this.

 

Yeah, I have projectors, so I'm not worried. BTW...I just got done with the install but I had to ghetto rig the ballasts. I'm probably gonna let it run like that for a month so I can gather up the money to buy proper tools. I'll take some pics and post them on here if you guys wanna see.

 

What temp HID did you buy? Pleaaaaase say 6000k or less

 

No worries man, I got 6000K. Anything higher is just WAY too bluish for me not to mention the purple of the 12000K is just ridiculous. I would've gone with 4300K but I wanted something different than OEMs.