I found this site last night and gave the guy a call today. http://www.sharphid.com/ The owner John was very courteous and helpful. I did some searching across many forums and I have found nothing but good reviews of his products. I'm going to order the 35Watt BiXenon's today. I'll let you know how they are.

 

What housings does everyone like to use?

 

Yeah, the prius's headlights are not that much of an improvement from the Honda Accords halogen headlights, but also the accord has a new design built into there headlight housing that amplifies the light by so much, we have the same accord, and the problem with the prius is that their headlight design is a very incompatible design with the hid setup because HID's have a very concentrated beam and if you look at the design its not very cut, its a much more cut headlight design almost contradicting what the projection headlight does for the hid setup. At least this is what I learned when my parents were looking to find a new car and I was reading up on the designs because that what I do when I get involved in something about cars. my parents trust my opinion so I helped them out and read up about the cars and gave them input, so you cant really judge the hid effect by the prius.

 

But wouldn't my truck be worse since the headlights aren't setup for HID's at all?

 

it will honestly improve from anything that you can do with halogens, but dont have any illusions that its going to be like the BMW's HID setup without a true set of projection headlights that are designed for it. It will look real nice with the HID's and the 8000K's still I think are double the output of a standard halogen, now remember this, the way they always put it is standard. a nice halogen bulb, such as the PIAA's will probably be near that, but it still wont be right at that range, and you cant get the cool purple/bluish color out of it. (headlights are kind of an obsession of mine if you cant tell lol) And the honest problem with buying the PIAA's is that they seem to put out more light that an original halogen bulb, but for some reason, the bluish color that comes out of them almost makes everything seem worse off because its not truly like the HID's. So with all that said there are definite advantages to each headlight, but the HID's will make the most improvement but its also very easy to get in trouble with these since the scatter will be really bad with the stock setup, if you want to retrofit it make sure to make the cutoff point at the top of the projection a very precise cut, if you can find someone with on the BMW suv's with the projection HID's try and get a chance to look at the inside of the projection on one of those and you might get an idea. But overall you will see improvement with the HID's no matter what, the only problem with the prius is that its setup with a bad HID setup, and the Accord is setup with almost the best Halogen bulb setup you can find now. I mean, I honestly probably have never seen a halogen bulb setup that was better than our accords, Honda actually did really well with that design and I was very impressed with it.

 

Ok I am very close to ordering a set. I'm just a getting a little tight on money as I have spent so much on toys recently so I can't decide if I want these things bad enough to spend that on them or not.

 

I would take some time to decide, wait till you are comfortable with the money you have, and maybe by that time something else might have caught your eye that you would rather do, but if you are one of those guys that really wants improved visibility for many obvious reasons then these headlights are definitely a go. but just know, you might as well hit it true with them because if your going for improved visibility over looks I would get the 6000k set because its improved visibility and not so obviously purplish that it attracts attention to the cops but still has the improved look of the 8000K while being close in effect with the 4300K. Make it a balance, I know everyone seems to either pick 4300 or 8000, but you can get the best of both with a little color, and the visibility while possibly lowering your risk of cop involvement because the more purple they are the more obvious it is that you've been doing something with the headlights.

 

Hey hometheaterman, I'm selling my black housing headlights. Thought you might be interested since you'r getting HID's.

 

I have bought a kit from XenonEyes.com and they work great. Had them in my car for 4 months now and everything is a-ok. I would definitely suggest them.