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So what are you HID people running as parking lights?

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Old 10-07-02, 07:08 PM
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Question So what are you HID people running as parking lights?

Do the amber colored stock parking lights look really junky with a HID kit?
Old 10-08-02, 01:02 AM
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I don't have HID.. but I do have some other whitish bluish bulbs, I will take pics tonight actually, owe all you CL members, what a great place we have here!
Old 10-08-02, 01:09 AM
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You be the judge... I think they look butt, which is why I switched them to a pair of spare PIAAs I had lying around. I'm not satisfied with the PIAAs either, but they sure beat this color combo...
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Here's mine with 6000k, the amber parking lights look horrible if you ask me.



I've decided to buy PIAA 168/194 Extreme White. I think there's not much purple/blue in them but I think it'll match up okay with the HID.

What's interesting is if you look at lex400sc pix and mine, his HID looks much brighter than mine! is that a 4100k ?
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Yep. 4100K . My lenses are much more transparent than the stock ones. Eventually I will buy ECE-spec lenses, which are about as clear as a window pane :eek: :eek:

Legend, make sure you get some pics of those PIAA Extreme Whites .
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Mind you these are horrible pictures, I snapped them really fast and couldn't see much, should have used my view finder instead of that dark dark screen, anyways I will try to take better pictures another day.
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Lights aren't actually this white, they are more bluie
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So blurry! Sorry!
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I have pics of my licence plate, but I forgot that I don't really care to advertise everyone what my plate # is, not that I don't trust everyone here! . I will try to retake pictures tomorrow around dusk... so that I can see what I am doing!
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Originally posted by lex400sc
Yep. 4100K . My lenses are much more transparent than the stock ones. Eventually I will buy ECE-spec lenses, which are about as clear as a window pane :eek: :eek:

Legend, make sure you get some pics of those PIAA Extreme Whites .
rich is a psycho!
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Ok I decided to run downstairs and try again... the camera takes a lot of the blue away, it really is a bluish white tinge (those hyper white bulbs) Anyways the parking light in hyper white is a lot better than those stock ones.
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Phoenix, what kind of bulbs are those? You're using the same ones for your license plate correct? Has anyone changed out their dome light? Is it the same bulb? I haven't messed with that yet, but I need to. There's a dead bulb up there.
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I was going to try to change my dome lights to all green bulbs, but... they either didn't have them or we couldn't identify all the bulbs... they are easy to take out though, just need a screw driver and plop it open... I haven't done it but some guy did it, I will try to rip it open and show the bulbs, they are all wedges... the middle one is pretty big.

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the tag lights are the same as the parking lights.
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Cool, do you have a name brand or source for those bulbs? They look like the ones I'm after


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