I don't have them.

They're annoying to drive toward or have behind you though IMO, and although I have not experienced it, it seems as though vision would be poorer since most people prefer a whiter (or in ricer case, blue) light to see.

 

not true, most people prefer the yellow. its easier on your eyes than the bright white & blue. there was something i read about this, i'll try to find it

found it, here take a moment to read this http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/lights/light_color/light_color.html

but my opinion is that i would like to get some sort of yellow bulbs and not just coat the headlights in yellow film

 

they say that you can see better with yellow lights in weather such as fog/rain/snow

also i just like the way it looks

 

i think the yellow headlights looks like crap. the only cars i mostly see them on are civics/integras. i suppose its just one more way of ricing out a car. i do understand that it can help vision in some way, but if you just throw some film over it......come on, cut that shit out. i find it takes away from the overall look of a car. why not cover the rest of your car windows in yellow film if it helps improve vision?

 

I'm gonna do yellow bulbs in my fogs.

White is legal in headlights here, everything else (even factory HIDs) is not. I really wish they would crack down on this more...

And doing it because it gets foggy as hell here a lot...

 

I had them on my STi and I couldn't tell a whole lot of difference. They seemed a little dimmer but that's probably just because the light wasn't white like it was before. I was told that I would have to take it off to pass inspection but I traded the car in before that day had come. All in all, I liked the looks of it but wasn't impressed with the function.

 

Yellow primaries were the law in France for decades ~ there is/was no difference in light penatration with either. The only reason they quit the requirement, was to make it easier on car manufactures selling their product in France.

It is far smarter to run s 'select yellow' bulb in the headlights. Film (in ANY color) will cut light output, never a good idea. That's why I 'select yellow' in my fogs.

 

There must have been a reason why Colin McRae raced with Yellow headlights? Dont You Think?

 

There must have been a reason why Colin McRae raced with Yellow headlights? Dont You Think?

There's also a reason they strap four huge round spotlights to the hood... it's probably cuz the stock headlights aren't that great.

 

Im gonna do it with my fogs, just because I dont want my headlights to be yellower.
Other than that I think it wont hurt. Now is the season with alot of fog and snow coming up...

 

I think it looks great, and it is much easier to see in different weather conditions.

 

I dig them on fogs, but i am not a fan of tinting the actual lights themselves. Get some bulbs if you are going to do it.

 

yea, /\ that. and im not feeling colin's suby either

 

My friend, WRXTURBO on here has yellow fogs and yellow rock blocker on his headlights and amber corners.. i think it looks awesome, no other cars can really pull it off besides us

He has a CFR hood now though, and his lights are on the picture, but its during the day.

 

I like it...

xtian's car

 

Yellow light operates on a different wave-length then others. It essentially cuts right through smoke, dust or fog. Its effective on tracks or rally when you actually need it. Heres an example many race cars in Le Mans run yellow HID's for this exact reason.

 

That is not the reason many race cars in Le Mans run yellow Hid's. They ones that run the yellow fogs are the slower class. When you see the yellow hid's coming behind you at night you know you don't have to give up your position. The faster cars aren't yellow so when the slower cars see that coming behind them they know to give way and let them pass.

 

i love my 10k hids, i dont get why everyone calls them ricey, i love the light blue color they give off, and i see 4x better than I did with my normal halogen bulbs. I intend on getting 3,000k HIDs for fog lights to see better in weather, they're a bright golden-yellow color, but idk when that will happen. I wouldn't really suggest them for your car, although xtian's looks fucking awesome.

 

10k is way to ricy. They are overkill. The farther you get from 5300k the less light output you have. So even though you may think you can see better you probably really don't. But hey it's your car.

 

Who cares if the light is 10,000,000,000 lumens, if the light produced is XRays, then it's not worth a f***. Seriously, people need to STOP putting HID's where they don't belong, and that includes OEM manufacturers (Audi, BMW, Benz, etc).

I can see just god damn fine with my OEM headlights. Why do you need 4X the light output? Why do you WANT blue light? Or purple? Or green? Or xrays? The ONLY useful color EVER is yellow.

Some moron passed me on the freeway tonight in a VDumb. he had BLUE HIDs, and the glare was incredible. The fog was GLOWING, it was astounding. I just can't believe that people actually believe that those headlights, and that light output, makes it BETTER to see. When you can't see 110 feet infront of you because the fog is GLOWING BLUE from your HID's, and you claim you can see better than I can with stock headlights, where I can see almost twice as far (with half the light output), then you're wrong in the head. Good god. Subaru really IS turning into the new Honda.

 

 

^ somebody has some pent up aggression!

 

Forreal. Calm down please, you might hurt yourself, and no its not the new honda. I personally think it looks great, its my opinion, and if you were mature enough you would respect it, yeah some people, if not many hate me on the road cause they are brighter than hell, but sadly enough and theres no way for me to say this any better, It sucks for you. Man. I've started a god damn brawl up in this bitch.

 

Respect what? People's claims that blue light helps them see better? That you need 4X the light output to see in fog? What are you claiming?

Seriously, do whatever you want with your own car. It's just plain stupid. You would get pissed off if I put 400w flood lights on the roof rack of my wagon and drove around like that. I'd be able to see real well, unless it was foggy. If you came up to me and told me I was stupid, and I simply told you to 'respect me', I think you'd laugh too.

People putting purple HID's in their fogs and headlight housings is rice. I'm seeing so many threads where people defend blue HIDs (Oh, my 10,000K hids aren't blue at all! It adds class!) as being fine, you try driving at night with a migraine and having some asshole tailgate you for half an hour with blue fucking lights glaring in your entire interior making it worse. I get a headache just seeing super bright blue headlights on the freeway, much less bright HID's that don't have a blue tint. Most halogen bulbs don't do that, or not nearly as bad. Yellow light still hurts, but it doesn't make me want to drink myself to death when I get home like 100w 30,000K HID's do.

You can say 'respect me' all you want, but what you are doing is causing me physical pain. Blue light does not effect the iris (it doesn't cause it to contract) of the eye like white or yellow light does, and thus, blue light blinds and hurts a lot at night. Yellow light is the opposite, it causes the iris to contract, cutting off light, which means a brighter yellow light will be less painful than a less bright blue light. Blue light will hit a surface and go apeshit, scattering everywhere, where yellow light hits a surface and doesn't scatter nearly as much. That is why yellow light is better for fog lights, and is mandatory in some parts of Europe that get a lot of fog.

 

This thread isn't about HID's but I agree with Sarra. I'm a truck driver and it's annoying as shit to see that, and I see it too often.

 

Truck drivers piss off more Americans then hids do.

 

personally i'll take the annoyances of semis elevenity billion times over being blinded by stupid ass blue lights HID or halogen.

hell i had blue led's in my dash for about 2 days, after i got a headache during the day when i had the lights on and the dash lights on the lowest setting, they came out

 

+1

Red lights FTW in the dash. Happy for nightvision.

 

Ah, guys... back on topic please. This is not HIDs vs. truckers. What a lame ass diversion! The topic in case you forgot, is YELLOW HEADLIGHTS ~ You have been warned....

 

2024 now

 

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My opinion:
4300k-5000k - great
6000k - okay
6000k+ - way too many drawbacks even if you like the look of them

All of you guys that think your HID kits are awesome, have you been inside a car equipped with OEM HID projectors? Intensity, width, even dispersion of light cannot be touched not to mention the other advantages of OEM components.

 

Yeah and as I have stated before who really cares about someones annoyance with hids. A lot of you hid haters seem to think that someone is going to get blinded and magically lose control of their 8 passanger van with babies in to it, catch fire, then crash into a pole. :jerkit: People like them they like them. You all talk like your crap don't stink.

 

I have no problem with factory HID's (Except when they leave the brights on... Those things hurt!) but the damn blue crap I see around is really annoying. It's so flickery and every road bump makes the light scatter all over in different places because they're always riding on cut springs too. UGH.

In my opinion, mods that are detrimental to the performance of the car are the worst kind of rice. Blue HID's are detrimental to the performance of the car plain and simple. White HID's even in a retrofit are eleventy-billion times better.

 

yellow is mellow.

 

true dat

 

Funny thing is, on a car 10,000k is "too blue," and in my reef tank I run a 14,000k bulb WITH actinic supplementation because 10,000k was "too white."

Seriously, 10,000k bulbs for aquariums are a real nice, CRISP white. I don't get why they're so different. 10,000k should be 10,000k, right?

I put Hella Yellowstars in my fogs and it made a big difference. I know they're not exactly selective yellow, but they do put out fairly yellow light and it is great in all weather conditions.

 

I used Reptile bulbs with my aquariums. :lol: Partly because I had so friggin many of them laying around, and also partly because I had 2 ten gallon tanks, so buying specialized lighting just for them would have been just stupid expensive.

Also ironic is that I bought an aquarium for a gecko, and was using aquarium lighting... Though I've got reptile specific bulbs in. That's gonna have to be replaced soon, arg.