HID's glare :,(

[liquidtiger720]

Seems like there is a lot of glare! =,(...I thought it would have been minimized putting them in the euro-spec headlights. They actually look very very blue in the picture....but, for some reason, I feel as if they were green...yuck.

[Qube]

Wow! That IS a lot of glare. I have US spec and no noticable glare. Have you cleaned the lenses or are they new?

... I realize that your close but those hotspots just don't look right.

I found that my 7500k look a lot 'greener' than my ladies 6000k

[liquidtiger720]

Actually, some of it may be lens flare?


Projectors were brand new. Euro Spec- Depo.

[Qube]

Do you have halos? If so, they may be scatter from that.

On a good note, street signs will be lit up like you won't believe by that light

[liquidtiger720]

No halo's.

Yea- but I don't want to blind anybody.

[632 Regal]

freakin align both the heights the same and be done, looks like a great upper cutoff limit too. change bulbs to change colors if needed, I would just point them the same and run onn.

[liquidtiger720]

freakin align both the heights the same and be done, looks like a great upper cutoff limit too. change bulbs to change colors if needed, I would just point them the same and run onn.

I willl, soon enough. That is on a unlevel driveway...and my whole neighborhood is full of hills. Till I have time to find a parking lot...

[Anton CH.]

Looks like your offset might be a bit off. Is your light housing H1 or one that was meant for HID?

[Tiger]

I agree... with so much light, you can afford to aim lower and to the right. I think the chrome surrounding the projector is causing the glare... Mine is the smoked Hella Euro, so my surround is dark brown and zero glare.

Do a test... block the surrounding with duct tape... just don't block the projector. Just do it on the lens and then take it off when done.

[High Compression II]

Is the lamp itself accurately aligned with the reflector in the fitting? Was the headlight fitting itself intended for a HID lamp??

I ask this, because the HID Discharge has a rather interesting feature. Different parts of the discharge have different colour temperatures. The light from the lower part of the bulb will be a slightly brownish, (due to passing through the enclosed salts) the light from the centre of the discharge from above will be slightly yellowish, while the ends of the discharge will be quite blueish. A correct headlamp reflector and lens is needed to get the best out of them with little glare, which means a proper HID headlamp assy.

There are many cheap 'kits' out there, which enable you to use a HID in a standard fitting BUT most are inferior to even a standard H1 tungsten type lamp, and give glare, incorrect or variable colour temperature, and other horrors!

Just my two pence worth!