DIY HID install. step by step instructions with pix.

[Dborn]

I think it is actually a lot easier if you remove the front bumper cover and then the headlights. Everything is exposed and the job is pretty easy. Instructions for removal are on this web site.

 

[gmercoleza]

Is high beam functionality intact after this mod?

 

[gmercoleza]

Also can the new xenons be adjusted for aim?

 

[demundus]

Yes and yes.

 

[mongo]

Just to remind everyone, Halogen to HID retrofit kits are not street legal.

Mr. Simon S. Shih, 4 Teal, Irvine, CA 92604
Mr. Jeff Deetz, Sales Manager, Santeca Electronics, Inc., 7215 East 21^st Street, Suite D, Indianapolis, IN 46219https://isearch.nhtsa.gov/files/kim.ztv.html
Mr. Song M. Kim, C.M.O./Fanteks, Inc., 580 Sylvan Ave., Suite 1A, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

 

[demundus]

I think that's a little bit of a strawman, those letters reference a MFG seeking approval for their kit or design, and the nhtsa dispelling the "DOT" stamp myth. This kit is providing the means to ignite an HID bulb, if you purchase a bulb that is nhtsa compliant and DOT approved (OEM supplied perhaps?), then what makes that illegal... infact they state in the letter that, as long as it meets 108's guidelines, they cannot comment on it further.

 

[mongo]

The original bulb + reflector + vehicle was an approved system based on the OEM or lighting supplier performing the FMVSS required testing for illumination/ color/ beam pattern. Once a different type of bulb is installed, that original testing/ certification is not valid. One could take an aftermarket bulb kit, install it, and then perform the required testing. If it passed, then that would be a legal bulb + reflector + vehicle combination. Until then, it is not. As it is, the system would be the new HID bulb and reflector wherein the reflector happens to be the same as the stock one.

Poor analogy: A taillight uses a red bulb, the bulb is DOT approved as a red tail light bulb. I mount that bulb in my front turn signal/ park lamp. That is not an FMVSS compliant installation.