LED light guide/install with pics. Name/size/placment

[gfourth]

Alright, got the 194 SMT Tower II's in and the 7000k fogs in.
It seriously only took me 15 minutes per side, very easy.
I'll post up a night shot of both sides all done later.


Before


After

[gfourth]

Well I took some pics at night, but they are worthless.
The headlight corners look great and match the low beams really well. The 7000k fogs look awesome as well, and are slightly less white than the low beams.

My next mission is to get some 8000k(ish) 9005's for the high beams. With the white headlight corners, it looks somewhat obnoxious with the yellowish highbeams when I unlock the car and both of them come on.

[nxlr8]

Originally Posted by vee_eyes

Well I took some pics at night, but they are worthless.
The headlight corners look great and match the low beams really well. The 7000k fogs look awesome as well, and are slightly less white than the low beams.

My next mission is to get some 8000k(ish) 9005's for the high beams. With the white headlight corners, it looks somewhat obnoxious with the yellowish highbeams when I unlock the car and both of them come on.

Where'd ya get your fogs? How much $$$?

[bpitas]

Yeah, I need to find some 5000k high beams too. When the approach lights come on, the high beams look positively BROWN compared to the corner lights and LED backup lights.

If you find something good for reasonable money, please post it!

[gfourth]

Is it okay to post links to non-supporting vendors? I guess I'll find out...
I got the H10s and the 9500XS's on www.automotivelightingusa.com
The H10s were $25 and the 9500XS bulbs were around the same I believe. Both sets are Nokya brand, probably not the highest quality, but oh well, they should last awhile.

The 9500XS bulbs are 7000k.

www.eautoworks.com had them cheaper, but they wanted like $12 for shipping, screw that. Automotivelightingusa charges a flat rate $5 for shipping and it's 2-3 day air.

[Bigron]

So you got the tinted bulbs not true HID bulbs, typically those reduce lumens unless you increase wattage.

Also if you replace the High beam with a blue bulb the blue color will reflect in the housing.

[nxlr8]

Anyone else tried any combo's that work well?

[Vecstasy]

Here is what I have.

I put in 8K HID bulbs for the headlights. I then put in 8K HID fog lights. The Fogs and the head lights were purchased from Apexcone.
I bought hyper white LED's for the corner lights as well as the side marker lights. That match pretty close. I think they are close enough that you can really tell. I also changed the license plate bulbs to a hyper white LED as well as the reverse lights. I think I went a little over kill on the reverse lights as they are 31 LED tower lights. They are pretty bright but not too bad. I unfortunately don't have a picture of the reverse lights or the license plate bulbs sorry. Here is a picture of the fronts though.

[04vman]

Great pic! How much did you pay for your headlights and fogs?

[Vecstasy]

Thanks. I have a buddy who was a dealer for them so I got them pretty cheap. I got the headlights for 70 and the fogs for 110.

[sleepys4]

How hard was it to install the hid fog lights? Also where did you mount your ballast?

[Vecstasy]

wasn't bad at all. Unfortunately to change the head light bulbs you have to take off the front bumper so I did it all at once. It is pretty much a plug and play kit for the HID conversion for the fogs. The ballasts are really slim and small so I just double side taped them to the inside of the bumper next to the fog light housings.

[sleepys4]

One more question. I am about to order the kit, but I don't know what size bulbs the fog lights are. i have seen several different numbers listed. I was thinking h10. Is this correct?

[Bigron]

After comparing the 24 to the 31, the 24 is brighter in a more focus pattern. The 31 has a much broader pattern and has a little more of a blue hue to it.
I still have one in on each side.
Probably just go with the 57's in the near future, b/c neither of these are the perfect solution.

[bpitas]

H10 is correct for the foglight bulbs.