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New HID set up...and a few Q's...

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Old 07-17-08, 10:03 PM
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Default New HID set up...and a few Q's...

So I bought an HID kit from Cliff like a month ago and I'm loving it. I loved it so much that I decided to go ahead and order up some 3000k H3's for my fog lights to compliment the 6000k kit I got from Cliff. The fog light kit was an Apexcone kit since I got it during their $55 lifetime warranty sale (if you need anything from them PM me)

I started out with this output before I baked my lights to clean the bulb since they were hella dirty


So I decided to bake my housings to clean up that crap that was inside the lenses. Heres my before and afters




Apparently our cars have a pretty good cutoff with an HID kit that I've never noticed before with normal halogen bulbs


Shot with no fogs


Shot with 3000k HID fogs


Combo shot so you can see the color



I'm loving my new set up, but I'm not quite satisfied with the width of my beam when I turn them on. Now the question is, is there a way to make the low beams wider than mine currently are? Like a screw or something or am I stuck? Thanks guys
Old 07-18-08, 07:52 PM
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looks good man. there is an adjustment to aim the beams side to side just like there is for up and down but id avoid messing with that. kudos on the 3k for the fogs. was thinkin about that for mine but went wit 8k to match my lows
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How come? Is there a bad side effect of doing it? Or is it a huge PITA?
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Well, I guess I'll take my chances if something does go wrong. My friend is an expert at retrofitting so thats my option if something goes wrong. Can I please have the directions to widen my beam pattern though?
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