Then just pull the bulb out and see what it looks like?

 

Most people who have no experience with HID's don't even know that there are ballasts in there to check for lol.

No sweat man, I joined this forum to ask questions and answer them alike. My car is a 2011, with over 46,000 miles on it. I work midnight shift, so I use my headlights at the very minimum for over 120 miles per week just going to work, let alone all the normal off-hours shopping, running for take-out, etc. All relatively pointless information, but the point was that, as someone mentioned earlier, HID bulbs will change colors slightly as they age. Quality bulbs tend to "settle in" to a truer color, where as the cheap ones tend to look further from their true color over time. This process really can take as long as 100+ hours to fully cycle. As time goes on, you probably won't notice it, but they will slowly transition closer and closer to the specified 4300K.

One other thought, is that those pics were taken with my HTC EVO 3D cell phone, so who knows what kind of "auto adjusting" it may have done to the hues and colors. I will guarantee you, though, they are white as snow with only the tiniest twinge of yellowing, and once warmed up they only show blue right at the cutoff line.

And in case that wasn't clear, I am still using my OEM bulbs & projectors & lenses/optics. No modifications to the bowl, lens, shield, or solenoid. I have never even removed them from the housings.

 

Thanks again man for the great info...

 

Thanks everyone, im glad i've found this club...anyway, i just replaced my park light with blued led with 10 smd... Here's some pics

 

New to here. Replace my parking lights to white LEDs =)

 

Haha! I replaced mine with like 6500K LED's, so I'm right in the middle of you two

Not quite as blue as dondi0210 but not as white as nike!

 

Welcome to the forum... I saw that you're from Anaheim, we are neighbors, im from Orange

 

Thank you. Nice we should meet up sometime.

 

i have the HID's in my from the factory, but i did swap out my fog lights with super bright white H11 bulbs. It made a huge difference in the look of the front when all lit up, but not much difference in vissability when the fogs are on while driving though.

 

That was what I was trying to reiterate? What's crazier, is if you've never taken a bulb out or know the difference between an HID bulb versus conventional, you really won't know what you're looking at.


I plan on going with 3000K's in the foglight housing since it really works well in the rain/fog/dusk/dawn on the DSM. I just haven't had an opportunity to see how easy it is to get to the bulb housing.

 

I am thinking of doing that too with Sylvania ZXE H11 but the price is like $48 for 2 bulbs. Kinda expensive.

 

I bought another set with 28 smd of this blue led, I dont like what i have right now with 10 smd coz whenever the low beam is on, you cannot see the whole eyelid with blue color.

 

Do you have any pics with the new ones installed? The 28 blue.

 

I have my 3k fogs in and I have had them on my past 3 cars. its great at night and during bad weather. I also wrapped my fgs in yellow vinyl for added protection from rocks and it looks awesome with my grey car. I am debating on either smoked or yellow wrap for my OEM DRL's since I already ook a rock and it cracked the housing on the driver side. For the Parking light above the low beam I swapped out to a 5k led bulb and looks pretty darn good as well.

 

Not yet, i am getting it tomorrow from Amazon and will post pics with the low beam on and off.