Need new headlight housings again!
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even assuming that a headlight company knows mucha bout the human body and how it works (it may or may not be true, idk and idc) i know that driving on back roads without street lights, light spread is just as important, if not more so than down road light spread, HIDs give amazing down road light throw, no argument there, however halogens give better close range flood lighting. at work whenever we have to put in close range and/or flood lighting it is ALL HALOGEN, there is a reason for this since money is seldom an issue for these projects they put in what works the best.
what headlights you use depends on your own driving styles, as well as where you drive and what your tolerance is, whenever i am driving my fog lights are on with my low beams for one simple reason, it helps me see better, especially down the shoulder of the road where wildlife tends to stand and behave unpredictably, so for me putting projectors (of any kind) into the truck would likely be a detriment because they have a much more directed beam for better down-road lighting, im not going to continue arguing w/ you about this and you do need to relax a little bit, you are coming off as VERY aggresive about this when its really not that big of a deal.
what headlights you use depends on your own driving styles, as well as where you drive and what your tolerance is, whenever i am driving my fog lights are on with my low beams for one simple reason, it helps me see better, especially down the shoulder of the road where wildlife tends to stand and behave unpredictably, so for me putting projectors (of any kind) into the truck would likely be a detriment because they have a much more directed beam for better down-road lighting, im not going to continue arguing w/ you about this and you do need to relax a little bit, you are coming off as VERY aggresive about this when its really not that big of a deal.
I couldn't tell you about the outdoor flood lighting since the most experience I have with that is installing high pressure sodium lights on the house. I do a lot of driving on until roads out in the country and I can tell you that with the hids I have much better side-road visibility than I did with the old halogens and fogs both on. More side-road visibility was actually one of the main reasons why I wanted to upgrade my headlights in the first place. You can see in the picture of the hids down the road that I posted that the bottom of the beam is curve so that it "wraps around" the hoodline and gives a good bit of side-road illumination. If there wasn't a hill right to the side of my truck in that picture you would be able to see this better. To give you an idea of the width of these when driving through Charlotte, NC last week at night my headlights lit up over 3 lanes on either side of me very close to my hoodline.
I'm sorry if I'm coming across as aggressive, I'm not trying to be. I'm just trying to get the facts out there so that people don't go and throw pnp hids in their halogen reflectors like krupaeric keeps telling people to do, so that they don't end up blinding everyone like in the picture that moparman posted.
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From: Pittsburgh, PA or Columbia, SC
yeah, we all pretty much hijacked moparman's thread
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Woah woah woah. Lots of wrong information on here.
Projectors are the way to go. Unless you live on curvy back woods roads. I run projectors because apparently I have money to blow on a spare vehicle. But they also look awesome in the urban area. But if I lived in the mountains.. Nope! Unless I ran HIDs in my fogs. Then I would run projectors.
For me, 8000k all day. If its snowy. 5000k sucks with snow. Period. I can't do 4300 color temp. Hurts my eyes. Headaches, strains. Just no good.
So the point is, projectors are not the best. They are an option. Would you put street tires on your tractor that never leaves the field? Street tire fits the profile - it's a tire. But for that use, it's not the best product for the situation.
Same goes with the color of the bulbs. 4300 may be brightest but for some folk it causes too much eye strain. Thesis where the blue hues come into play.
End of the day, gather all the facts then make your own choice. We are all adults here. If you're smart you will make the right choice. Plain and simple.
Otherwise you're a pickle trying to kill a vibe.
Projectors are the way to go. Unless you live on curvy back woods roads. I run projectors because apparently I have money to blow on a spare vehicle. But they also look awesome in the urban area. But if I lived in the mountains.. Nope! Unless I ran HIDs in my fogs. Then I would run projectors.
For me, 8000k all day. If its snowy. 5000k sucks with snow. Period. I can't do 4300 color temp. Hurts my eyes. Headaches, strains. Just no good.
So the point is, projectors are not the best. They are an option. Would you put street tires on your tractor that never leaves the field? Street tire fits the profile - it's a tire. But for that use, it's not the best product for the situation.
Same goes with the color of the bulbs. 4300 may be brightest but for some folk it causes too much eye strain. Thesis where the blue hues come into play.
End of the day, gather all the facts then make your own choice. We are all adults here. If you're smart you will make the right choice. Plain and simple.
Otherwise you're a pickle trying to kill a vibe.