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Old Dec 13, 2008 | 12:45 PM
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Hey, you think you can post up this type of pic?
Drive your truck head on with a building or a garage door from about 30ft away and snap a pic and post it up. If it's not too bad I might throw a set in my truck!
Projectors styles have a clean line from light cut-off as the stock lights have tons of "scattered" light.
Thanks I would really appreciate that. All housings are diff. and I haven't found any pics on the Ram yet.
 
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Old Dec 13, 2008 | 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by John M
Did you at least re-aim them? HID is much brighter and what was acceptable "overlap" with the stock bulbs is killing people!

Ideally you should convert to projectors first, then HIDs, so everyone benefits from your better vision.
Like I said in the above post, no oncoming traffic,'Flashed me'.
My mechanic thought they would blind oncoming traffic too and said he could adjust them if necessary, but so far so good.

I will take some pic's but the other night I tried for about an hour to post pic's of an air filter upgrade I found but couldn't get them to upload onto this sight.


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Old Dec 13, 2008 | 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by dirtydog
Hey, you think you can post up this type of pic?
Drive your truck head on with a building or a garage door from about 30ft away and snap a pic and post it up. If it's not too bad I might throw a set in my truck!
Projectors styles have a clean line from light cut-off as the stock lights have tons of "scattered" light.
Thanks I would really appreciate that. All housings are diff. and I haven't found any pics on the Ram yet.
I will do the best I can to get that shot. The pic's like that that I have seen do not do justice though.

My mechanic said most people do not realize that if you are looking for maximum illumination you need the 4000K-4500K color temp bulbs.

Mine are 4300K and it's like the sun came out compared to the stock headlights.

The main thing I like though is now I can clearly see over twice as far as I could before.



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Old Dec 13, 2008 | 01:53 PM
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I was referring to taking a night pic against the wall. Going against the wall at night will show all of the scattered light. Like I say if it's nowhere near as bad as other cars, I will maybe get some myself! Thanks

You can open up your Paint program on your desktop and go into open to find your pics. Once opened go to Image and then stretch/skew. Downsize the pics to 20% and 20% and you can then upload onto this site.
 
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Old Dec 13, 2008 | 01:59 PM
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I was referring to taking a night pic against the wall. Going against the wall at night will show all of the scattered light. Like I say if it's nowhere near as bad as other cars, I will maybe get some myself! Thanks

You can open up your Paint program on your desktop and go into open to find your pics. Once opened go to Image and then stretch/skew. Downsize the pics to 20% and 20% and you can then upload onto this site.
10-4 Thanks, John
 
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Old Dec 13, 2008 | 03:11 PM
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id like to put some new bulbs in my truck. the stock headlights are terrible on un-lit roads. is it possible to update the headlights without having to re do everything, like just replace the bulbs?
 
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Old Dec 14, 2008 | 07:59 AM
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Yeh that would be great! I used to use 100+ watt bulbs on my mains but I had to use them on a relay connected straight to the battery so as not to burn the wiring out! Also I wouldn't trust them on these new plastic headlamps as they would probably melt them. So is there any other way as I for one can't afford $200+ just on headlights!
 
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Old Dec 14, 2008 | 03:57 PM
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I have also installed HIDs in my truck, converted to 10000k headlights and fog lights. It has made a world of difference. I did deside to go with single beam headlights witch has no high beam, but I didnt ever use them anyways, but i have made the aux driving light upgrade with hela 500 behind the grill, witch work great as high beams that i am currently working on HIDs for now. My friend instlled a set of high/low beam HIDs on his 03, but hade to buy a digital wiring harness upgrade because of the lamp out system that Dodge has. You can buy Hids on e-bay for cheap, I've hade mine for about 2 years and hade no problems, not even a burnt bulb.
 
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Old Dec 14, 2008 | 11:39 PM
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Any pics yet?
 
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Old Dec 15, 2008 | 09:08 AM
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working on it, hopfully they will be up tonight.
 
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