Does any of your HID turn yellowish after 15sec or so after is turned on? I have seen video on the evo8 wit the headlights on and it seems much brighter than mine. When i turn on my headlight...it seems to be really bright and white for about 10 to 15 sec....and then the color start fading to a yellowish color (like regular headlight) I wanna know if this is normal or is just mine.

 

hrmm
not mine mine always look purpleish

 

this is how it look when it first turn on....

 

and this is after about 10 seconds....

 

please post pic of your HID.....i wanna see and compare it to mine....thanks

 

thats the way HId works....The purple color is just the warm up stage,and it will stay yellowish afterwards,but the color output will be bluish/purple white color depends on the angle...

 

realllllly...so u sayin that look right to u?

 

mine look purplish only on the edges

 

It's all about the angle. I was doing some night photography, and
from the side they look white, but looking directly in to them from
a distance they are almost purple or blue and keep changing from
those to white pending on where you are standing. Very unique.

 

the thing is...i watch it from the front right when is turn on....is realllly blueish and white and i can see it fadin....like evolucn8 say...that is just HID work i guess

 

Actually its not how the HID works, its the bulb........Different bulbs have different color temp.......

 

can someone just tell me straight up...does it look right to u guys???????? i don't need to know if is the bulb or not....hehehe...jk NRG.....but please...just tell me...i really wanna know if is lookin alrite to you people

 

Looks normal to me. The Evo color temp doesn't seem as blue/purple as some of the European cars.

--Dan
Mach V
MachEVO.com

 

I believe the HID that comes on the evo8 is ~4300kelvin. The bluish version is about 6000K and the purplish version, which is in most bmw and mercerdes is 8000k. These value are for fully warm up..15secs after turn on. Generally, the higher kelvin rating, the better it looks, but brightness is sacrificed.
The purple on the edge of the light beam is caused by diffraction of the light passing thru, the same reason you see rainbow when its raining.
To onetOnsoup: your light looks ok. just compare the light from the 2 headlight, if one looks a different color from the other, then you should start suspicious. These bulbs have very long life, might last as long as the car if its not abused.

 

the original temp of an HID bulb is 4300k made by philips or sylvannia...the higher temp of your bulb the less visibility you'll have, coz it will be more purple/bluish color than white....All the luxury cars with HID are using the 4300k bulb....6000k-8000k Is B.S to me IMO.....