Spoke with Todd @ http://www.retrosolutionsllc.com/servlet/StoreFront early this morning. I told him my wants, and whys. He asked a few questions and he then verified that the 4300's are the brightest and have the most usable light. 55watt bulbs and all the equipment w/lifetime warranty for a good price. I'll let you all know how the install goes once they get here. Thanks for the help.

 

Wonder why he didn't let me know this. I'll have to bring it up with them. It was an Asian fella that barely speaka any English. Had a hard time understanding him. Ill check on this.

 

I thought you had a true HID conversion?

The lights I'm talking about are regular halogen bulb with tint and extra wattage that simply replace your factory bulb. They produce a very diffuse (i.e: un-aimed) light that blasts off the ground immediately in front of the vehicle and washes out depth perception as well as reducing length of view down the road. They're not DOT approved because the stray light produces blinding glare bouncing into everyone else's mirrors and windshields.

Here's an example: fake HID lights

 

scout1ton,

Is this what you got:

http://www.retrosolutionsllc.com/ser...08-2009/Detail

Please let us know the results. I'd love to do something similar.

 

Yes that is the kit I ordered. That was what the owner Todd recommended. I will do a follow up next week when I get them installed. Hope to be seeing much better and further with these lights.

 

I don't have those lights. true HID conversion here. sorry if i got confuzzzed..

 

they are easy to install. a true good kit will be 100% plug and play with NO wiring splicing. I have had mine for a couple years now.

 

I went from terrible PIAA lights to a 6000K HID kit in both headlights and foglights. I WILL NEVER GO BACK AFTER HID'S!!!!! Amazing bright and so nice to drive with. I did have to adjust them down a bit more due to getting flashed on the highway. Now that they are adjusted properly, i never get flashed and they make driving so much safer for seeing deer, people, etc on the roads, streets and highways. I wouldn't go any higher than the 6000k because you get that stupid annoying blue color. Like the other gentlemen mentioned, the light output gets worse the higher you go above diamond white(6000k). The 4500 is the best light output they say but i personally think the 6000K are brighter. And like mentioned before, you will need the antiflickering kit and the light out cancellation harnesses. My whole set up here in Canada costed me $400.00 installed with a lifetime warranty on everything except the bulbs which are 3 years on them. You cost down there will be much cheaper I'm a guessing.

 

My kit was much cheaper and I am under the impression that all is there to plug and play and won't have any flickering and gooffy chit. cbrahs, do you have the same kit that I ordered? If so was all the equipment needed included?

 

$400.00 was everything included and installed at a shop in town.

 

Ok, that sounds better, I was thinking, d amn shipping to get across the border is higher than giraffe nuts.

 

I got mine from www.hidspeed.com They got me everything. I did bixenon headlights and fogs so I can't remember the total price. Just installed a set into my buddy's toyota tacoma last week.

 

I used to use the 5000K bulbs in my old Piaa 80 lights on my F-150. I really liked the color of the light at that wavelength, a really bright white. The 4300K are natural daylight spectrum, but they can seem a bit soft for some.

 

Bronco if you do this swap shoot me a PM so maybe I could swing by and check them out. I guess you'll be my lab rat in a sense. If you dont mind.

 

Will do, I'm looking forward to using scout1ton as my lab rat. I'm also interested in putting a set in my Bronco, the factory lights from 23 years ago are terrible, especially with a tinted windshield.