hey i was thinking about gettin the HID kit for my lancer....checked out the price on ebay..going for about 250-400 bills. is it really worth it? i've seen cars with HID kits and it looks pretty cool....but then agen...its just bright a$$ lights ya know. what are the pro's and cons is what i wana know i guess.

 

Its helps to see better at light also your car is stands out alot better at night! I mean you always notice a car with HIDS alot more than cars with normal lights.

 

"worth" is a subjective term.

Only you can answer if it's worth $250.

To me, it is. I would pay that much for good headlights. I'd be safer.

 

man, if you are spending 250 on HIDS, then don't do it

good hids are 300 bucks or more, thats a given. rule of thumb: don't pay less cause you are getting junk that will break in a year, and don't buy hid kits off ebay, cause it'll break in a year

 

Depends on whether you want brights or not as well, thats the main reason I decided not to get them, I drive too much in the country with roaming deer to make it worth the risk.

 

if you want to keep your brights, you could grab some cedia headlights, which have separate low and hi beams, so replace your lows with HIDS and you still have your hi beams

 

Yeah but that means buying new headlights, the HIDs, and dealing with the wire splicing and such that would be necessary to make it worth. In the end it just wasn't for me.

 

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here's HID 10,000 K on my lancer.. hope pics answers your question if HID is worth it.. and i paid 335 on a group buy.

 

i got mine at hidplace.com for 335 shipped. its the mcculloch kit. i have the 6000k bulbs. i think anything over 6000k actually lessens the brightness of the lights. i actually might go down to 5300k. stock rating on evo's with hid's, i think is 4300k

 

hid kits are NOT worth it...go OEM HID retro...check out http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/ and then..go to HIDplanet university...from there, you will find out why hid kits are a bad bad bad idea. if you want brighter lights....do it right..go OEM HID retro. i paid $400 for everything (Audi A6 projectors, hella gen 4 ballasts, 4300k osram bulbs, and 9007 wire harness).