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Re: the newest thing NOT HID / but LED
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Originally Posted by SVX_MY_BABY
When I got my car painted the owner of the shop told me that HIDs were really bad for turning the plastic headlights yellow.
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I think the yellowing hazing of the headlights are due to environmental conditions, UV, ozone, etc. I have seen too many cars with this condition that have never used anything but halogens.
That being said, I am convinced that my 35W 5000 HIDS, in both my low beams and fog lights, put out less heat than my OEM halogens.
svxfiles installed the HIDs in my car 5 years ago. While at his house overnight during the winter, the headlights had a thin coating of ice on them in the morning.
Started the car up, turned on the lights and 10 minutes later, the ice had not even begun to melt. Turned on my halogen high beams and the ice melted in less than a minute (but only in the area in front of the high beams).
I have turned the headlights on, without starting the car, while it was snowing. The snow did not melt when it hit the lenses, but coated them.
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Last edited by svxcess; 01-10-2013 at 05:36 PM.
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