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Old 11-26-08 | 09:57 PM
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Is installing a kit this easy? Are all of them like this? I figure ill just use some double sided tape to mount the ballast somewhere in the engine if it is just plug in and play http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/_Car-...18#ht_6356wt_0
Old 11-26-08 | 11:13 PM
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Thats expensive for an ebay kit, and the ballasts don't look like they are digital.
DDM tuning has a slim ballast kit for a lot less (just installed one in my es)
You can use double sided tape and mount the ballast underneath the headlight housing, but you can also mount it on the battery holder rod, etc..

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Old 11-27-08 | 01:23 AM
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I find that no matter what sticky tape I use, it falls off eventually. I ziptie it AND stick it on

I put it on that metal piece that holds the front bumper. Dunno what it is but it fits perfectly and you can't see it lol
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/_Car-...18#ht_4722wt_0 Is this the one?
Old 11-27-08 | 01:44 PM
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According to Wikipedia this is a bad idea...

Beginning in the early 1990s, HID lamps have been employed in motor vehicle headlamps. This application has met with mixed responses from motorists, who appreciate the improved nighttime visibility from HID headlamps but object to the glare they can cause. Internationalized European vehicle regulations require such headlamps to be equipped with lens cleaners and an automatic self-leveling system to keep the beams aimed correctly regardless of vehicle load and attitude, but no such devices are required in North America, where inherently more glaring beam patterns are also permitted. Retrofitting HID bulbs in headlamps not originally designed to accept them results in extremely high levels of glare, and is illegal throughout most of the world.
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...nversions.html

So although I too would like to do this, maybe it's just a bad idea if you can't be absolutely sure that you're not going to blind other drivers?
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