[maloo11]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Suzuki-Sierr ... 45fb54937c

Anyone running this type of setup? Would this be a good upgrade for the price?
Would this kit be all i need eg; no alt upgrade, wiring upgrade etc. All my electrical is standard apart from a bigger battery.
Thanks.

[Rusho]

HID's are technically illegal You would be better with some of THESE with one of THESE as well as some philips 50+ bulbs

[boostedbrick]

HIDs will also piss off other road users to no end.. Other than for the wank factor you don't need them.. What Rusho suggested is more than enough for most driving. Get some HID spottys if you need them

[Bruce]

Just get a Headlight upgrade loom froom Royce. Great value foor a great upgrade.

[steak_knife]

Bruce wrote:

Just get a Headlight upgrade loom froom Royce. Great value foor a great upgrade.

I have one in Sully & she has light's like normal car's now....

[dank]

Can someone point me in the direction of the ADR or any other relevant publication that states that HID is illegal? There is no comparison between HID and Halogen. A 4300k kit looks like a bright halogen, at 55w.

[89_tintop]

the vehicle has to have self levelling head lights in order to run hid..

Its not that they are illegal..

I run 35w 6000k in the mrs honda jazz and they are bright. I plan to run them in the jimny once a bullbar is fitted as at the moment the light is facing sky heigh

[Moag]

Maybe someone can aim their lights properly with High/Low HID upgrades and Phillips halogens,
take a happy snap of light pattern against a wall so all can see the results.
I can do halogen lights for a Jimny with upgraded loom and cleaned lens.

A how to aim your Jimny lights.

[royce]

seems a bunch of useful info here

http://www.mobileelectronics.com.au/for ... id-lights/

[steak_knife]

Nerd's.....

[dank]

[Rusho]

Could be different from state to state, but in QLD they are definately illegal without being factory fitted with a self leveling device.

[royce]

I think the next problem is then just because you fit some stuff that should comply to a certain ADR, the vehicle still isnt built and complied to the same ADR so you then have to somehow get it tested

First big problem is housings designed to focus the beam from a H4 style globe will be different from that required to focus any kind of HID globe

It would be great to see a 7" round system that is fully compliant and perhaps even some kind of projector insert you fit into your existing lights after removing the reflector and then something in the NCOP to have them certified but I dont see anyone having the incentive to push for it

[dank]

I agree with you Royce. It would be good, defintely a market for it.

Just gotta wait for the LED Trucklites to drop to a good price and come in RHD configuration. They are the shit.

http://www.truck-lite.com/webapp/wcs/st ... &langId=-1

[Gwagensteve]

Speaker do some wicked LED headlights too:

http://www.jwspeaker.com/other/led-headlamps

I thought I'd go HID, but I'm going to hold out for LED. Much better suited to an off road car.

I've had factory HID in my last three road cars and two out of the three cars have had dramas with failure, and that's in "fixed" applications with a separate high beam lamp. I'm not convinced a moving globe/shroud H4 HID arrangement is suited to off road use.

Steve.

[shep]

i have single beam HIDs in my sierra headlights and they are great but i will
go back to a normal h4 globe when i move back to civilization.

[royce]

Gwagensteve wrote:

Speaker do some wicked LED headlights too:

http://www.jwspeaker.com/other/led-headlamps

I thought I'd go HID, but I'm going to hold out for LED. Much better suited to an off road car.

I've had factory HID in my last three road cars and two out of the three cars have had dramas with failure, and that's in "fixed" applications with a separate high beam lamp. I'm not convinced a moving globe/shroud H4 HID arrangement is suited to off road use.

Steve.

I see they have reference to European and ECE approval, I wonder if its one that we accept for ADR complaince

[TryHard]

Ok getting off subject Again but has anyone used the

LED Bars or Duellys i think iv asked about this before ages

ago but from what i can tell they are a brighter light more of a flood great for crawling around not so great for seeing long dist http://www.rigidindustries.com/category-s/131.htm

[Fatzook]

TryHard wrote:

LED Bars...... more of a flood great for crawling around not so great for seeing long dist

This.

[TryHard]

Fatzook wrote:

TryHard wrote:

LED Bars...... more of a flood great for crawling around not so great for seeing long dist

This.

so thats true ?

[Fatzook]

TryHard wrote:

Fatzook wrote:

TryHard wrote:

LED Bars...... more of a flood great for crawling around not so great for seeing long dist

This.

so thats true ?

Its my experiencewith LED light bars, yes.

[Moag]

TryHard wrote:

Ok getting off subject Again but has anyone used the

LED Bars or Duellys i think iv asked about this before ages

ago but from what i can tell they are a brighter light more of a flood great for crawling around not so great for seeing long dist http://www.rigidindustries.com/category-s/131.htm

Something like these



I will try to get up some sort of comparison photo up latter when I get around to it.
Don't have HID spotties though.

[TryHard]

thanks Moag

that would be great even some night shots
im sure people would be intresed to see how they go

[ZookiMonsta]

TryHard wrote:

Ok getting off subject Again but has anyone used the

LED Bars or Duellys i think iv asked about this before ages

ago but from what i can tell they are a brighter light more of a flood great for crawling around not so great for seeing long dist http://www.rigidindustries.com/category-s/131.htm

They are a flood light, provide huge amounts of light in the target area directly infront of the car (depending on size of the car) can throw light a few hundred metres. I've seen one light up an entire hillside and provide enough light to work on a car around 150m away but that was a 52" light. I'll deffinately be in the market for one, but other things must come first. Just my 2cents.

[TryHard]

ZookiMonsta wrote:

TryHard wrote:

Ok getting off subject Again but has anyone used the

LED Bars or Duellys i think iv asked about this before ages

ago but from what i can tell they are a brighter light more of a flood great for crawling around not so great for seeing long dist http://www.rigidindustries.com/category-s/131.htm

They are a flood light, provide huge amounts of light in the target area directly infront of the car (depending on size of the car) can throw light a few hundred metres. I've seen one light up an entire hillside and provide enough light to work on a car around 150m away but that was a 52" light. I'll deffinately be in the market for one, but other things must come first. Just my 2cents.

what are the duelys like value for money ? wise for a flood

[matt91112011]

Hi guys,

In my old 4Runner I replaced the standard Halogens with Phillips 50+ Halogen globes which was a good upgrade, then I changed them to a set of HID's a few months later, and omg!!! They we're so much better. Worked offroad all the time, never had any problems.

When I rolled that car I put the HID's in my dads GU Patrol, and I noticed that when you used his halogen spotties, both sort of cancelled each other out.

So when I bought my Vit, I bought a set of 45W HID spotties and a set of 55W HID's to replace my standard globes, difference is amazing. Everything is so much clearer and easier to see, and if you aim them right down you won't annoy anyone. But they are illegal, or at least in VIC they are.

So my two points are:

HID's don't work as well if used with Halogen spotties

HID's produce clearer brighter light than anything else currently on the market.

Cheers

Matty

[ZookiMonsta]

TryHard wrote:

what are the duelys like value for money ? wise for a flood

For comp work IMO the best set up would be HID inserts and a decent size LED light bar. HID will provide a bit of distance while the Light Bar will throw light absolutely everywhere, great for driving through dense bush that kind of thing not long open roads.

[Moag]

Happy snaps as promised.

All sets of photos are the same exposure and colour balance is sunlight.

low beam standard halogen at target




high beam standard halogen at target




20" LED lightbar flood spot combo at target



Same order in without target

[monley]

matt91112011 wrote:

Hi guys,

In my old 4Runner I replaced the standard Halogens with Phillips 50+ Halogen globes which was a good upgrade, then I changed them to a set of HID's a few months later, and omg!!! They we're so much better. Worked offroad all the time, never had any problems.

When I rolled that car I put the HID's in my dads GU Patrol, and I noticed that when you used his halogen spotties, both sort of cancelled each other out.

So when I bought my Vit, I bought a set of 45W HID spotties and a set of 55W HID's to replace my standard globes, difference is amazing. Everything is so much clearer and easier to see, and if you aim them right down you won't annoy anyone. But they are illegal, or at least in VIC they are.

So my two points are:

HID's don't work as well if used with Halogen spotties

HID's produce clearer brighter light than anything else currently on the market.

Cheers

Matty

I tend to disagree with you on that! I have HID's in my jimny with 2 spotties(non-spread) the HID's cover the width on high beam, while the spotties give the distance so i think they balanced each other out rather well JMO.

[atari4x4]

Moag wrote:

Happy snaps as promised.

thanks for that Moag, once again great pics from the toad hunter

that combo light bar does a bloody good job, decent distance & wicked fill/spread. IMO it's all well & good having spot lights that shine 5000kms down the road, it's not often you really need to use them unless travelling at Mach 10.