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Several things to say about those:

1. You should not plug and play HID kits into stock housings. They need to be placed in projectors which have special lenses and cutoff shields to aim the high intensity light properly. If you don't you will blind other drivers and possibly get pulled over.

2. I have no way of knowing what the quality of those kits are. If I were you I'd check out HIDplanet for information on projectors and ballasts. This thread helped me decide on my current HID fog setup which I'm almost done installing.

3. The color temperature (which is the spectrum a black body would radiate if heated to that temperature) of those bulbs is listed as 10,000 K which is very dark blue. That color light is useless for practical purposes and dangerous to rely on at night. For maximum illumination you want bulbs between 4000 K and 5000 K. There are old wives tales of using yellow lights (near 3000 K) for fog lights, but those are factually incorrect. I don't feel like explaining it again, but 4300 K or 4500 K for both low beams and fogs seem ideal.
 






I have a 98 Explorer eddie bauer with stock fog lights right now. I'm wondering if these are the lights i need? Will everything just plug and play? Anyone have experience with these?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...0453144224&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I have used DDM tuning for all my HID lighting I have ever done. I currently drive an 08 ford f350 king ranch diesel and i have the 55w hid hi/lo bixenon in my headlights and 35w xenon in my fogs and they are the best kits out there and they are def. inexpensive....i have had the entire fog light housing and ballast for the hid's submerged under water when i was crossing a creek a few times and they have yet to skip a beat....
i just bought my gf a 2008 explorer and i am about to order a set of 55w hi/lo 6000k for the headlights and 35w 6000k, and i can get all that for under $100

www.ddmtuning.com

check it out before you buy

ps- they also have great customer service if you get confused during install
 






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