How does the lifetime warranty work, is it for both the bulbs and ballasts? Also i was wondering how much you guys charge for install and where you are located?
Cheers

 

Thanks again there gotti...

 

Did anyone get this to work? Anyone figure out an install solution yet?

I'm about to do this - I'm sick of the pretend blue halogen bulbs that dont really match anyway and hid kits have come down significantly enough in terms of price to make this a worthwhile mod.

I have sort of figured out a solution in my head, but it would basically make the hid kit permanent to the car. Well not really, but you would have to replace the mounting rings in the fogs.

Here's what I'm thinking.... and please feel free to chime in here.

The current setup uses that mounting ring or base to secure the lamp in the fog light housing as well as provide the electrical connection using those metal tabs that are inside of it, and the connector on the other side.

The rebased H1 HID lamp has a standard H1 base, and is designed to work with the conventional mounting wire clip / spring that these bulbs typically mount with. What I'm thinking is you have to drill out the back of the factory fog light mounting base, to allow the wires (and possibly the bottom part of the HID bulb) to extend out of the back of that adapter. you might as well cut the right angle off of it as well, but its better that you dont, first to have something to grab onto and twist the ring back into the housing, and back out if you ever have to remove it.

I have not done this yet so I am uncertain if the metal clips in the base which provide the electrical connections to the connector also serve as a mechanical support to keep the bulb base in the proper position. From my memory replacing halogen bulbs it doesnt seem so. I know that the base has the straight edge piece to properly orient the bulb.

Now my worries.

1) How thick is that mounting plate on the h1 rebased HID bulb? the Metal one on a real h1 halogen bulb is pretty thin, so clearance when reinserting the assembly may be an issue, but nothing a file or razor blade probably cant solve.

2) since you have drilled a hole in the back of this mounting base to allow the wires out, you now have to seal it up. I'm thinking a permatex gasket sealer or possibly some jb weld plastic to seal around the wires and make the back of them waterproof. Not pretty, but it will work, and no one will ever see the back of the fog light housing anyway. Especially since you've just blinded them with your new HID fogs...

This seems like the only real solution here. The thing that kind of sucks is that if you order an H1 HID kit, it will not come with the proper electrical connectors to plug into the factory connector. So, the only solution there is to splice and solder etc...

Save the connectors if you want to ever revert to halogen fogs. You'll probably have to buy new fog light bases from Jaguar but oh well... that's the only real part you have to modify.

Take care,

George

 

Wow things to think about...I'll have to look at the scenario down there when I get a chance...

 

Yeah,

That's what I was trying to explain in the other post about putting hid's in the fogs... I was hoping that guy with the lighting company would chime in here, but it doesn't seem like he's too interested. I may e-mail or PM him directly and see if i can get a response from him.

Take care,

George

 

I take it you didn't get your answer?!!!
Did you ask 750?

 

I spoke with 750 a couple months ago and he mentioned that the HID bulbs were installed w/ glue (gorilla glue) I didnt to go that route just in case I needed to remove the bulb. I found these but I dunno if they will fit.

http://frickinbrite.com/catalog/prod...roducts_id=197



The fog light mounting base on the Xlooks like the HB4's. Would this fit in the X-Type Fogs?

 

Have you ever seen those lights in person? That is crazy that a led is nearly as bright as a halogen let a lone a hid! I mean they put out nice looking light but enough light to actually light up the pavement in front of you? Leds will be used I'm sure in the near future...cadillac has them now but its more of a running light feature more than a headlight...I'd just figure out a way to custom make a basket for the fogs to mount to...perhaps using a different kind of bulb size would help...jb weld and gorilla glue are amazing so the possibilities are endless!

 

As I promised! These are some new pics of my HID's. I changed them to 8,000K Umnitza HID, Luminics Pure Blue H1 bulbs in the Hi-Beams and Fog Lights










LED reverse & license plate lights


Luminics Pure Blue Hi Beams


R Performance Shift Knob & Belkin iPod Nano TuneDeck

 

Looks good...which lights you use for the parking lights/small bulbs in the brights part of the headlamp? Also the leds in the rear I like those any pics of those or where you bought them? I have a blue light in my parking light spot but that one you have looks like it will match the hids a little better...

 

where did you get those kights. How much were they. Those are the nicest lights U have ever seen in my life.

 

The parking lights are from Umnitza.com and the rear LED are from vleds.com. You could probably find the 194 bulbs (parking & license plate lights) and the rear LED on that website.

 

how much did those lights cost you on the headlight

 

Your not talking about the hids right? Just the parking lights...? Couldn't have been more than 5 or 10 bucks...

 

no those HID

 

Thought you already bought some through mydepots? I guarantee he spent about twice what you did or were going to spend on the mydepot hids...

 

yeah I did but will mine look a little likehis?

 

also where did you get those 2 inner light bulbs. Were they expensive where you bought them. Aquil told me they should be a few bucks at walmart.

 

Which color did you get Jason? I thought you went with 6k and 6k? If you went 6k it will be less blue but still looks sweet in person. I just had a kid stop by and pick up a couple of kicker subs off of me and he had the newer 07-08 civic with 10k hids and he hated them. He was actually "pissed because I can't see anything" as he put it. He totally would never have gone with them not to mention he didn't like that they showed up blue when he was driving..ie blue on the pavement and everywhere else. The 6k is the best combination for color and brightness imo. I'm glad I didn't go with 4300k or 5k as it would look more like a cadillac but mine set me apart from everything else without losing light output...I'll look for the bulbs at walmart if I go there and I'll let you know exactly how much they are...

 

yes doesnt have to be walmart, anywhere at far as local stores.