need help to decide which is the best kelvin(temperature) for HID's? fog lights/ head lights. please share your opinion.thanks.

 

Best as in...what is your criteria for best...?

 

also interested in this^^^

 

For best light output...5000K or less. OEM is 4100K.

 

as in most popular in cars.coz im running on 4300k and planning to upgrade to a higher temperature.

 

I would say 6000K is the most popular...Most cars I see that have HID kits in them put 6000K.

 

I have 6000k but thinking of swapping to 8000k in the future. The yellow (3000k i think) look pretty dope too but its really your personal preffrence.

 

I ran 10K fogs and low beams and it was awesome. Very blue

 

both sets I got were 5k

 

4500k lows and fogs are my fav

 

i got 6 k low beams and parking lights, 3 k high beam/drl and 3 k fogs. they looks pretty nice

 

The term "best" is ambiguous when applied to something subjective like this. It's still ambiguous if you define it as "most popular". The most popular temperature on the 2IS is 4300K, because that's stock, and the vast majority of people have stock HIDs. The most popular temperature higher than 4300K? There's no way to gauge this - it's all personal preference. I'm not sure why you'd want to base your decision on what's most prevalent on the street. When choosing temperature of HIDs, it's very simple: decide what color output you want, while keeping in mind that output brightness in lumens will decrease as you increase in temperature. Do you want purple HIDs with low lumen output? 10,000K. Do you want a brighter white/slight hint of blue with similar lumen output to stock? 5000K. Do you want pure blue with lower lumen output than stock? 6000K. So on and so on...

I will say that the aftermarket HID bulbs I see discussed most often on CL are 6000K because people like the pure blue look. However these come with tradeoffs - 1) they're dimmer than 4300K stocks (this is according to lumen output, no matter what people say they think they see), and 2) displaying blue lights from the front of a non-emergency vehicle in every state I know of is illegal. These statutes do not define color temperatures - they leave it up to the officer and judge to decide what's "blue" and what's not. I can tell you that I know multiple people, both personally and on CL, that have been ticketed for 6000K lights because they're blue.

I personally recommend 5000K, because it's a more pure white with a slight tint of blue, provides roughly the same lumen output as stock, and won't risk you getting ticketed. My review with pictures on a 2IS is here: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/lig...ount-code.html

 

I just put in Garax 6K and they aren't even close to being blue IMO... I had one opposite a brand new Philips 42402 (OEM) bulb and there was only the slightest hint of blue if any. They were almost identical...

I'd also like to add that I can't see **** with these bulbs.

 

Yeah, I also have Garax 6k it's looks more white then blue to me atleast.

 

6000k Garax lows and 8000k HIDXtra fogs. The lack of a projector in the fogs made the 6000k not match as well as the 8000k does.
I used to have 8000k Garax lows, but it was noticeably hard to see, my eyes are bad.