Xenon Depot 5000k Xtreme HID Kit Install on an SC 300!! 56k No Way!
#18
When Steve ships out next day, he seriously means next day. DHL next day is extremely fast. My lights came the next morning after they were shipped... that was less than 24 hours.
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Steve, I'm very intrigued with this conversion kit but do have one question. My wife's 05 RX330 has the standard hologen headlight assembly. Would this kit work?? Or would I need to change the assemblies to the OEM projectors??
#21
The 6000k are a higher color temperature making them more blue than mine. You also have less lumens the higher you go which is why mine appears brighter and whiter than yours does. The whole point of XenonDepot releasing the 5000k kit was to give people the opportunity to go higher than 4300k which still has a hint of yellow, but not so high as 6000k which appears blue and obviously not OEM. 5000k is the middle line here and I love the compromise. The SC projectors in the new headlights are actually much better than the one's that were manufactured and put on these cars before, I believe, 2001.
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I have original 1993 headlights (going by part number, at least), and they have a well defined cut-off line - just as good as the "newer" style...
HOWEVER...
This was only realized AFTER I cleaned the hell out of them... I'm talking the whole thing - the reflector, the lens, the cover, the whole thing... before I did all the cleaning, polishing, etc, the light was all over the place... honestly, even before the HID's, the sylvanias I had in there had a nice cutoff line...
#23
I think cleaning the cover lenses had a lot to do with this in terms of your beam pattern, and i have 95 headlights on my car that are really clean, the cutoff is decent, but it's not razor edge sharp. It was also confirmed they use a different projector on the 'newer' headlights, but I dont think it's all that great. In addition, I think Tiguy99 noted also the fact that the headlights covers are to thick which kinda kills the output of the projector even though he sanded down/deline the area where the projector puts the light out of. If anything, I would say that the headlight housing on the SC isnt that great, ie the cover, the reflectors, the position of the projector.
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I put the Sylvanias in my 93 SC400. My right lens was leaking and was half full of water. I DID NOT take the housing apart but i filled it with soap and agitated it. Told it really stupid stories. I did both with the soap and rinced the heck out of them. Outcome....left is bright and has a cutoff that is razor sharp. The right , the leaker, is bright but the cut off is much fuzzier than the left. How can I tell if I have original housings.
Whoever put out that info about the Sylvanis bulbs....Thanks, they are great.
John
Whoever put out that info about the Sylvanis bulbs....Thanks, they are great.
John
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I put the Sylvanias in my 93 SC400. My right lens was leaking and was half full of water. I DID NOT take the housing apart but i filled it with soap and agitated it. Told it really stupid stories. I did both with the soap and rinced the heck out of them. Outcome....left is bright and has a cutoff that is razor sharp. The right , the leaker, is bright but the cut off is much fuzzier than the left. How can I tell if I have original housings.
Whoever put out that info about the Sylvanis bulbs....Thanks, they are great.
John
Whoever put out that info about the Sylvanis bulbs....Thanks, they are great.
John
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yo i get this for the most part but i need a little help understandin the step by step for actuly puting them in if you could help out it would be great thanks
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