this is a few tid bits of information that i recieved today, so i want to make people aware. i recieved a ticket for my hid's about a month ago. i finally went to court today about it and got reamed a new one by the judge. now this is going to be different from state to state, so you may want to check how things opperate in your state. so this is how things are in virginia. the judge explained to me why i got the ticket in the first place. hid's are legal here up to 10,000k, anything higher than that, its illegal to use on road. i have 6,000k, so its not that much of a biggie. also the hid's must be inside of a projector style headlamp assembly, either comming from the factory or aftermarket, but the aftermarket ones have to be dot approved. the ones that i had them in were the regualr headlamps that were on my neon to begin with. that i didnt know, so my bad. so after everything was said and done. my $87 ticket turned into being $217. i forgot i was going to have to pay court costs and the processing fee. so either way i know what not to do next time lol

 

damn sucks but its not good to running off stock housings since they throw out a glare, but this is the first i heard someone getting a ticket for hids

 

yea i havent heard anyone getting a ticket for their hids outside of me lol. but the cop did make mention of the glare, so im assuming thats why i got it.

 

cant u just aim the stock housings down more? there shouldnt be a glare then right?

 

somewhat. i tried doing that earlier today and it would only go but so far. im just not going to take that chance again, so im going to order some projectors when i get paid next friday. meanwhile i put my silverstar ultras back in and boy was there a difference lol

 

True. Which is why its not a great idea just to throw hids in halogen housings. Projectors cost a lot, but are FTW.

 

lol well i know that now. but im eyeballing a few sets. and no they are not cheap lol

 

The projectors I used cost about 400 dollars. Overall, I have probably spent around 600-700 in materials and probably 10-20 hours of my time to make mine. When I get some free time I have to fine tune them. Soon they'll be back on the car and looking perfect.

 

im eyeballing a few sets on ebay. my sister sent me a link to this website that has some as well, which are actually pretty decent