poohbear

Ok, i finally received the email and i've never had any troubles with it anyway.. will take it in next time with the service...

Did you install a wiring harness? thought i'd share this...this is what happens when you don't have a wiring harness to your HID...

of course it does. When you use HIDs, you're drawing more current when the ballast are firing up, up to 15A max. In the long run, the stock harness will burn out. That's why you need a relay harness to draw power directly from the battery. (but even so, i dont' think toyota will give you warranty on it). any wallshot of the hid kit?

This is mine, got from ebay, it has projections at the back.

not necessarily, because the projector was made for a halogen bulb in the first place. Some halogen projector do work fine with a little bit of glare. But either way, its always best to stick with OEM products, most or all of the re-based bulbs are aftermarket and poorly made and inferior in quality.

I can get it over from japan for $1550 landed!!! I see its for the MCV20, do they fit the ACV36?

hmm strage, didn't receive it either...

ouch.....thats not good!!

well Lumens is a Measure of light brightness (lu) and as you can see, the higher K you go, the lumens pretty much goes down to the same as halogens. Another problem is the scatter of light you get from a HID kit plug-n-play. Just proving a point of the glare, but there are still people out there with hid plug and play kits

Wondering if anyone got official gov issued doc says that after market HID conversion kit is illegal? I don't think there is anywhere that says its illegal but there is law enforcing the color of the light. Yellow and White is accepted. But even that, i think anything that was not designed for HID bulbs should be illegal, since it wasn't made for it so should not be used.

its pretty simple to retrofit your headlights. You only need 3 basic tools: Electric Driller, Screw Driver and an Oven. Took me about 1hr (on my 2nd go, but 3hrs for the first time). Unlike most people who Installed HID on their stock headlights (designed for normal Halogen Bulbs), they have to point the headlights as low as possible to reduce the glare and they will not have even light distribution. Back in the old days, I used to have HID on my stock headlights, it was nice and bright. After using them for couple of weeks I decided to take them off since it wasn't worth the risk of blinding oncoming traffic, or worst, causing an accident. wow 1 hr!! That's really fast! I took mine slowly, about 1 months worth of weekend work. My hole was actually quite large and i used a dremel and I had to make it perfect (but its still not perfect). But it was fun and worth the results!

any updates on these coilovers?

and this is why you have these and notice how all the light is spread on where light is needed

Narva? maybe for halogen bulbs, never heard of them for HIDs. Better go OEM. like valeo, philips and denso ballasts. With bulbs it'll be harder to get OEM since you'll be using a halogen socket so you'll need a kit. Unless you can find a philips or osram rebased bulbs which are reputable HID bulbs. As for relays, it is recommended as you don't want to fry your original wiring harness, as using HIDs you are running more current than the stock halogen bulbs. Better to be safe than sorry :) as for color temperature, i would recommend nothing over 6000K, after that you're losing a lot of light output, might as well keep to halogen if you want to have the color.

I did take it off at one stage while i was doing my retrofit. The light was just too scattered and not on the road which made it dangerous. so I switched back to halogen.