rylis, get LEDs. HIDs will still be blinding to oncoming traffic.. imagine pulling into a tunnel or something with your highs on full blast.

 

My thinking in getting HID's would be to only to use them in the daytime as DRL's so that they wouldn't blind oncoming traffic


I did get these LED's but they won't work with the factory wiring as you have to splice in a resistor I think?
even if I get a HID kit it won't work either as the high beams have a special connector that holds the H1 bulb that won't fit with an ordinary HID kit.
No halogens will work as all of them light up yellow at DRL half power and only until they are high beam full power are they fully white

oh well, unless someone makes a halogen that burns white at DRL half power I guess I will stay stock

 

+2

 

I say no. Even in the daylight the HID bulb in a reflector housing is going to be extremely bright and distracting. How about you just turn your normal HID projectors on?

 

There was a Forester behind me yesterday with his Halogen brights on in full sun. I wanted to punch the guy in the face, hard. It was obnoxious, distracting and dangerous. Standard HIDs put out about 3 times the light and have a more erratic light pattern since the reflector was not designed for them. They would be even worse. I vote that this is an absolutely awful idea and should be abandoned.

 

This. My low beams are always on, 24/7.

Whatever halogen bulb you put into the high beam housing, it is going to look dull because the DRL function makes the bulb run at partial power. You can put the bluest, cheapest bulb off Ebay you can find in there and it's still going to look terrible. A cheap ricer HID kit wouldn't do any good either because it would throw light everywhere and be pretty distracting, even during the day. If you want "cooler" looking DRLs, your best bet would be to completely disable the stock ones and fab up some kind of LED array in the headlights or down where fog lights would go.

 

I thought they did just ban non-OEM HID's? for that very reason, that and well catching fire.



I just put in yellow high beams, so that at low wattage DRL, they look yellow instead of what ever the stock ones look like.

 

Just get some blue bulbs and be done with it..

 

^he said he tried blue bulbs and they still come out not blue due to eeceiving half the power

 

So if they don't come out blue, then what color would they be??

Because he says he wants "white" DRL's.. You would think they would come out closer to white than stock if they aren't blue..