skyraven4

So I've replaced my parking lights and fogs and they look whiter / bluer than the stock 43xxk HID's in the low beams. I ordered my 6000k D4S bulbs from XenonDepot and they just came in. When I went out to my car today and took off the covers, I couldn't find or see what I needed to take out to replace the bulbs.

Does anyone have a picture where they could show me how or where to take out the low beams?

T4styPh0

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I took these for a fellow member awhile back.

Take off the washer fluid nozzle to expose the dust cover.



Pull that bar towards you to open it.



Then turn the power cable for the bulb couter-clockwise.



Top clamp push in and down. The bottom clamp push in and pull up.



Remove the bulb and you're good to go!


Hope that helps. On the passenger side same step but have to remove the air box.

05LSV

what brand/model # of parking lights and fogs did you go with that are whiter and bluer than the stock HIDs? And to clarify, those upgrades are now brighter than your stock HIDs - that's why you are now upgrading those bulbs as well?

Can you change out the running lights, fogs, and parking lights, and have ALL white/blue colored lights for the whole front end?

skyraven4

http://frickinbrite.com/catalog/prod...roducts_id=348

those for parking lights (white)

fogs are...hold on...
http://www.racinglab.com/luminics-blue-9006.html

Well, not brighter, but im worried about color matching compared to the led SMT bulbs (which are white white white), the oem hid low beams are only (white)...fogs are nice and blue but not as blue as 8000k - they are 6000k but actually look 7000k... just ordered some Xenon Depot 6000k D4S bulbs and hopefully those will look the REAL (white white white) HID white and color match my parking light and fogs

as far as light output, higher you go in temperature the lower you go in light output

DRL - daytime running lights are your high beams running @ 20%
Parking Light - lights on at night time (little bulb in the corner next to your DRL)

I actually use high beams so I can't replace with an LED... I probably could replace with a higher temp bulb but eh :P



mine is the 2nd IS from left... furthest IS on left is 8000k low beams, parking light changed, fogs to 3000k (MoLexus)

ill post a pic up after im done installing the 6000k

oh and THANKS for the pics and info!!!!!

05LSV

ahhh, got it. Thanks for the clarification.

So there are:

DRLs - those are the high beams running at 20%. You didn't change those.
Parking lights - you changed those out to match the stock HID
fog lights - you changed those out to match the stock HID
Stock HID - you left intact

Is there any reason to change the bulb in the stock HID lights? Does that effect the inner-workings of the light in any way?

05LSV

Skyraven4 - in the pic above, your car (white IS - second from left) looks great. It looks like the parking lights, fogs, and stock HIDs match pretty well. Is it different in person?

skyraven4

There isnt any reason to change the bulb in the stock HID lights... great outward projection, great light output. It's just that the parking lights are pure white (maybe a tingey blue) and the stock HID lights aren't as white as I wanted. When I switch to my 6000k bulbs, i will have less light output, but i will have a pure white (slight blue) to my low beams, matching my parking light and fogs. If you look closely (but closely) my low beams are a little duller :P if anything i want them to be bright and match

apparently with these xenon depot bulbs, you dont lose much lumen so light out put isnt lost that much

05LSV

yeah I can see that that your stock HIDs are a tad less "icey" looking compared to the parking lights and fogs.

Post some pics up when you make the change.

iKenn

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i know this thread is kinda old but do i have to open that black box to get to the parking lights?

llamaboiz

Yea its in the manual how to access the parking lites and once you do that the rest is pretty intuative...

iKenn

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haha, how come your the only one answering my questions. MAybe i should just PM my questions to you

llamaboiz

Yea but then you'll only get my 'version' of our cookiecutter litemod cars.




*cough*even thou mine its DA BEST*cough*

ExTrEmE99

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Just make sure you dont drop the LED into the headlights housing

weesped

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haha. not if i get that 27smt! haha. and not untill ur 11smt gets in judd

08mica

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I'm jsut impressed by those pics. Those are hard places to get a camera into. Props to you.