hid kit

[bsabloke]

arrived, fitted. hi/low beam kit. wow totally amazing. a must for anyone who rides in the winter or night time.

[lloydie]

hope you fitted a projector with the hid or you will be blinding everyone and its not good when oncoming car drivers have there eyes closed coming at ya

[10robbo]

hi,which one did you get and where from,been wanting to fit one myself

[bsabloke]

Looked at bikes with hid fitted. Some dip beam only. Didn't want to mess with mounting arrangement so went for hi low kit. Got it from vtrdh off this forum. He is also on facebook group.looked at halo ring / projector ring also without. I thought without was good. I will go with it for the moment. 'I may lower the beam slightly if i think it will help other road users.

[chric]

think ill go this route love night rideing any one near barnsley fit me one

[Tweety]

Looked at bikes with hid fitted. Some dip beam only. Didn't want to mess with mounting arrangement so went for hi low kit. Got it from vtrdh off this forum. He is also on facebook group.looked at halo ring / projector ring also without. I thought without was good. I will go with it for the moment. 'I may lower the beam slightly if i think it will help other road users.

That really won't help at all... There really is no way in he double hockey sticks that you are not creating massive glare like any other HID bulb set in a stock H4 reflector... And lowering the beam is only making the light you use worse... The glare will still blind oncoming drivers, just the same, since it's pretty much aimed at the treetops anyways...

Test it out... Put the bike in front of a wall... On low beam, there should be no light at all above the middle of the beam pattern... As in none... That will not happen... But look at what light there are, and think extending the line... Odds are that it will hit oncoming drivers fairly spot on...

[Tweety]

think ill go this route love night rideing any one near barnsley fit me one

Do yourself, and anyone else a big favor, and go for a HID in a projector... It's not even hard to fit, and you get more than twice the light output of a poorly fitted kit, with all of it going where you need it...

[chric]

think ill go this route love night rideing any one near barnsley fit me one

Do yourself, and anyone else a big favor, and go for a HID in a projector... It's not even hard to fit, and you get more than twice the light output of a poorly fitted kit, with all of it going where you need it...

yeah will do if thats best dont want to be drove into

[Tweety]

HID kit with H4 based HID bulb in stock Firestorm reflector....

Low/dipped beam :


High beam :


Proper projector, with HID...

Low/dipped beam :


High beam :


If you compare the above images, you see the "crown" on the kit bulb to be pretty much the same as the high beam of the projector... Ie smack dab in the face of oncoming drivers... You would actually be less blinding using the high beam in many cases...

The problem is, with the high beam from the kit, you will end up in a ditch yourself, since all the light is concentrated above the center line, meaning you have a big black gap with no light at all just in front of the bike, making it pretty hard to spot and avoid things like tar snakes, ridges, or road debris...

[Salty Dog]

Those cheaper HID kits from China don't seem to have much quality control either.
Lamp will sometime fail to ignite.
Most people report 12 months use and they die.

On the upside, you are much more noticeable in day time riding. Which has to be good.

[Diabolus]

theres a pretty good 'how to' in the workshop guides http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 31&t=30721