HID color question

Afboy143 · July 21, 2006

I have a question

About 6 months ago I did a an HID conversion using mercedes projectors in a diamond cut headlight. My question is, how come none of the bulbs that I buy glow the color they show?

Basicly, I bought a 12000K bulb, and it doesnt really look purple...it looks white with a SLIGHT purple

I just recently bought 8000k, (different brand, different place), and it doesnt shine blue...it shines like my 4300k did. Whats going on here?

Afboy143 · July 21, 2006

if it makes any difference, this is exactly like what I bought

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Bi-X...009QQitemZ190010195494QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

DOZIER · July 21, 2006

I bought some xenon 10,000k and they shine nice blue. Just look at my picture.

Afboy143 · July 22, 2006

yes, and im pretty damn jealous I must say. What brand are the bulbs? Im thinking of just selling off all my crap and going diamond cut because for some reason I cannot get the color I am looking for and its starting to be a money drain.

is that just a 10000k 9007 kit?

DOZIER · July 22, 2006

Yup the brand is Xenon.

Jason94sport · July 22, 2006

How can you guys see at night with 10, or 12K bulbs?
I swapped to 8K in my Acura & couldn't see crap at night on dark FL roads. I went back to 4300K.

Gryz · July 22, 2006

Try running them without the projectors and see if you get a color like in the pic above.

DOZIER · July 22, 2006

To answer your question Jason, when you have a head light as big as mine on the front, the light just tends to spread out a little better. Acura's have small head lights. Plus when I changed from Halogen's, the 10,000k bulb was my first and only selection of bulb because of the color and it is still brighter on the road than my halogens were.

A crappy camera = a crappy picture at interstate speeds.

huskyfan23 · July 22, 2006

12000k should be purplish. They may just not be 12000k bulbs... but I've heard it takes many hours of use before the color really starts showing.

I run 4300k bulbs. The different colors are cool looking and all but I'd rather see farther than look "cool". My bulbs light up the road like sunshine. High-kelvin bulbs color the asphalt. And since HID kits are illegal you'd probably be more likely to get pulled over if you have a deep hue. I've been behind and passed plenty of cops at night and never been pulled over. Haven't been flashed either.

DOZIER · July 23, 2006

I don't get flashed either. I have been pulled over and the cop wanted to know where he could buy some. Ha ha ha. It was great. I have passed cops and been behind cops also. But even if I do get stopped for them I would get off any way, just like everything, show them that little Marine Corps Active Duty card and away I go. Oorah!

Afboy143 · July 23, 2006

LCPL DOZIER said:
To answer your question Jason, when you have a head light as big as mine on the front, the light just tends to spread out a little better. Acura's have small head lights. Plus when I changed from Halogen's, the 10,000k bulb was my first and only selection of bulb because of the color and it is still brighter on the road than my halogens were.

A crappy camera = a crappy picture at interstate speeds.

that is sex my friend, sex

and I live in Florida....cops dont care about **** here as long as I dont have blue lights flashing. Where did you buy that kit again?

DOZIER · July 23, 2006

Xenon. And I live in Pensacola, Dads house. Birmingham is where it is now, at my grandparents house....Actually one mile north of Birmingham in a little town called Fultondale.

Afboy143 · July 23, 2006

Well after talkin to some guys at BMW and Benz dealer ships, the projector I have (e46) has some kind of "blue light" filter and really is only visable from certain angles. Just my luck, I go retro for the color and I buy the color-canceling projectors.

DOZIER · July 25, 2006

Thats great! Ha ha ha. I hope you did not spend too much money on those then. I used to live in Tampa. Tampa Palms, and Temple Terrace.

Afboy143 · July 25, 2006

LCPL DOZIER said:
Thats great! Ha ha ha. I hope you did not spend too much money on those then. I used to live in Tampa. Tampa Palms, and Temple Terrace.

Yeah the lights are so much better now with the black out I did, also the 8000k is much brighter than 12000k I had before but still isnt blue like yours

And I live in the Tampa Citrus Park area...10 mins from Tampa Palms

DOZIER · July 25, 2006

Afboy143 said:
Yeah the lights are so much better now with the black out I did, also the 8000k is much brighter than 12000k I had before but still isnt blue like yours

And I live in the Tampa Citrus Park area...10 mins from Tampa Palms

cool. remember I have 10,000k head lights not 8,000k. 10 is a little deeper blue than 8.

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