Tmirk

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So I want yellow fogs.

Questions is do I go with a cheap HID 9006 kit or go with some PIAA yellows, or some even cheaper yellows.

This is more for looks, since the car can't do foglights alone. I do some driving in fog, but probably no more than 10-15 times a year.

I'm leaning towards a chaper (think 150-200 non phillips) HID kit at this point, as I think the look and the output will be far superior especially considering spendding 65 bucks on PIAAs will keep me happy.

So is there really any reason to go with a "high quality' -i.e;phillips)" HID kit for yellow fogs?

Or is there such little difference that cheap bulbs would be the way to go.

Payam

Cheaper HID kits might give you a little less light output than maybe a Phillips kit but it will still be night and day with what you have in there now. And really the only down fall to using a cheaper kit is that it might burn out quicker than a better kit.

Tmirk

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Well good at least someone has sort of the same opinion as me. LOL!

I gotta imagine its safe to say a cheap HID kit will far out lightbling an expensive halogen, especially in the yellow dept.

Irishfan

FWIW, you're going to have a much shorter bulb life than with your main headlight HID's with fogs, if you plan on switching them on/off on a constant basis. This is why separate-bulb high-beam HID's are a bad idea.

If you leave them on for as long as you leave the headlights on, it should be okay.

Just giving the heads up.

mwaull

how much do sets of HID fogs usually go for? Say a cheaper one, and say a phillips set? Where is hte best place to get these?

Tmirk

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On Ebay the cheapest I could find a 9006 HID 3000k kit was 180 shipped, where as the phillips/mculloch reputable type products will cost close to and above 400+shipped. And all sorts of kits in between.

I'd be leaving my fogs on pretty much all the time the headlights are on. I thin I'm going to go the cheap route on the fogs and see what happens. It will either be a 200 dollar lesson, or a slightly more expensive alternate to yellow halogens.

twkid84

me and my friend has bought a few $200 level kits
most of them have some problems, usually the connection problems.
some takes a while to light up, meaning it flickers when u first switch it on.

i even bought a kit that claims to have mculloch bulbs,
but the light output wasn't close to the same mculloch kit that i have.

i would say stay with mculloch,it's not more than $300 shipped
and i have no problems with it, three kits so far.2 dating more than two years.