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Old 02-09-08, 10:06 AM
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hey i was wondering if someone can help me figure out if my car has a hid kit or not. i bought a brand new 2001 es300 in 2000 and was wondering how i can find out if it has hid kit. i just put in new xenon 8000k bulb.
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Do you remember is it was a d2s blub?

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Old 02-09-08, 10:23 AM
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its a h7 bulb if that helps
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h7 is not HID.
Old 02-09-08, 01:47 PM
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Is there a ballast? . .
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btw, if it was hid, itd be d2r. and h7 is standard halogen. i have a set i will probably let go of real soon with 6.5k d2r.

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^Your right d2r is the factory bulb. Its the Acura factory bulb that is d2s.
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no not all. my brothers is d2r. but most of the hid stuff switched over to d2s with the projector. d2r is reflector almost always.

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^Honestly I never knew that I'm kinda new to HID and such. Thanks for the insight.
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Originally Posted by Choas
Do you remember is it was a d2s blub?
Wow I just realized now why this statement makes no sense. Kinda funny I wrote this dead sober at work LOL
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Originally Posted by Choas
I just realized now why this statement makes no sense. Kinda funny I wrote this dead sober at work LOL
Wow, if that's the way you talk sometimes when you are sober, you must be REALLY hard to understand when you've had a few LOL (j/k)
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