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    HID's?

    Looking to fit some HID's do I need canbus compliant ones for my P1? thought the bulb warning system was just for the brake lights?
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    Fit them, if you have any trouble, get some 50w load resistors from eBay (about a fiver) and fit them across the power supply to the ballasts.

    Get the cheapest HIDs you can find, they're all the same.
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    Thanks for that, found some 55w 6k for £16, worth a punt!
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    Just remember... The higher the k rating.... The more of a chav you'll look lol. 4300k is proper white.
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    Quote Originally Posted by M-R-P View Post
    Just remember... The higher the k rating.... The more of a chav you'll look lol. 4300k is proper white.
    My proper white ones are 5000k.....I wouldn't go any higher tbh.


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    Mine are 6000K and look pretty damn white
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sharkey R View Post
    Mine are 6000K and look pretty damn white
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    i always use 6000k

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    Mine are 8000k oops better go buy a burberry baseball cap
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    4300k is stock with a yellowy tinge but very bright.
    5000k is white and very bright.
    6000k is white not as bright with a blue tinge around the edges
    8000k is blue and considered illegal (Police will tug you all the time)
    10,000k is highly illegal as they are purple.

    From 6000k up the actual amount of light on the road massively diminshes and they are rubbish in the dark.

    I use 5000k.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quicksilver View Post
    Looking to fit some HID's do I need canbus compliant ones for my P1? thought the bulb warning system was just for the brake lights?
    To answer your question...No.

    I used normal HID's on my P1R and they were fine. Just make sure you get the correct type of bulb, ie Projector or reflector type. Get it wrong and you definately will look like a chav and you'll piss other road users off with your un metered light polution!
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeeT5 View Post
    4300k is stock with a yellowy tinge but very bright.
    5000k is white and very bright.
    6000k is white not as bright with a blue tinge around the edges
    8000k is blue and considered illegal (Police will tug you all the time)
    10,000k is highly illegal as they are purple.

    From 6000k up the actual amount of light on the road massively diminshes and they are rubbish in the dark.

    I use 5000k.
    Disagree entirely. The ones that Duane fitted to the D5 are like flood lights and they're 6000K rating. The dipped beams are running standard bulbs at the moment and when I dip the lights for a car coming the other way, it's like going from having flood lights to candles. 6000K are very bright!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesT5 View Post
    Disagree entirely. The ones that Duane fitted to the D5 are like flood lights and they're 6000K rating. The dipped beams are running standard bulbs at the moment and when I dip the lights for a car coming the other way, it's like going from having flood lights to candles. 6000K are very bright!
    they are 50watt hids in the main beam on Bonny, but yes they are good

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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesT5 View Post
    Disagree entirely. The ones that Duane fitted to the D5 are like flood lights and they're 6000K rating. The dipped beams are running standard bulbs at the moment and when I dip the lights for a car coming the other way, it's like going from having flood lights to candles. 6000K are very bright!
    You would do and as Pedro says, they are 50w not the standard 35w, so that doesn't count!
    You cannot compare a 35w with a 50w as you will get a completely different light output.

    So, going back to what I originally said.......

    4300k is stock with a yellowy tinge but very bright.
    5000k is white and very bright.
    6000k is white not as bright with a blue tinge around the edges
    8000k is blue and considered illegal (Police will tug you all the time)
    10,000k is highly illegal as they are purple.

    From 6000k up the actual amount of light on the road massively diminshes and they are rubbish in the dark.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JamesT5 View Post
    Disagree entirely. The ones that Duane fitted to the D5 are like flood lights and they're 6000K rating. The dipped beams are running standard bulbs at the moment and when I dip the lights for a car coming the other way, it's like going from having flood lights to candles. 6000K are very bright!
    The use of HID lamps have been a bone of contention for a long time.

    http://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...-headlamps.pdf

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    I have to be honest and and say I do get irritated by the extremely bright DRL's and HiD's used on more recently built cars!!! Just want to get my own back!!!

    Plus my brother has moved to deepest Cornwall to the end of the longest, narrowest, darkest lane I've ever been down and I realised how crap my lights were!!
    We have street lights in Devon!!
    Looking forward to getting them fitted!

    Maybe just have to change back to standard for the Mot.
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    I fit some 35w 8000k to mine 2 weeks ago. They do not look blue in the slightest (and yes, i know they should but they dont) and i have been out most nights and not been tugged once by the rozzers (and i live in Bradford so there are plenty of them about... rozzers and chavs that is!)

    You need H7 for the main beam and H1 for the fogs.

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    My kit arrived today, so I'll be fitting soon and let you know.
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    Well not that impressed!!! Light output not much better than standard just a different colour!! Then one started flickering!! Today it went out completely and the bulb failure light came on! When they say "plug and play" they don't say how many times!!

    At the moment there both still working but for how long??
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quicksilver View Post
    Well not that impressed!!! Light output not much better than standard just a different colour!! Then one started flickering!! Today it went out completely and the bulb failure light came on! When they say "plug and play" they don't say how many times!!

    At the moment there both still working but for how long??
    Really? What kit did you buy? Got a link?
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