sascuderi

Just want to let those that were thinking about doing a HID upgrade in the stock housing know that I recently did it and am very please with the results.

I had been reluctant in the past on doing this because of reading that it never comes out well because of light scatter and change in the beam pattern.

I posted these pics in the group buy section but figured others may be interested in seeing the results:

Here are some pics.

Stock Halogen (before upgrade)......


Stock Halogen road view.....


HID on the left and Stock Halogen on right.....


After Hid install in stock housing.......


Road view after HID install......



As you can see, the beam pattern is very similar before and after, with no light scatter! Got them here:

http://forums.maxima.org/group-deals...g-members.html

n3985

iTrader: (36)

You have no light scatter because I30 headlights are better designed than 5th gen Maximas

sascuderi

Ha ha...bold statement to make on the 5th Generation forum!

bigpopaj369

iTrader: (2)

those came out really good! nice bright whites

VQP0WER

FAIL

sascuderi

Thanks.

Yes bright white, no blue to speak of. They are 5000K for those that may be wondering.

AceofSpds

iTrader: (4)

its true, the 00-01 headlights suck, I had HID's in mine for only 1 night, Its far worse than me just driving around with my highbeams on.

Mr. Blue Sky

iTrader: (1)

While the beam pattern and dispersal aren't bad at all, the big issue with this upgrade would be inherent glare that the headlight gives off by its design that would be intensified by the large jump in lumens that HID gives you. Glare is something that even OEM HID reflectors give off, so as long as they don't blind the oncoming traffic, they're OK

sascuderi

My understanding is the glare is the result of light scatter. The more scatter, more glare for other drivers.

Have been driving with them this week and no flashing high beams from other drivers. As you can see on the garage view, not much light seems to scatter up the garage door. So I think the degree of glare may be OK.

What I'll do tonight, just for fun, is to take a pic of the lights next to our Murano with stock HIDs to see if the degree of glare is much different.

Will post the pics later........

sascuderi

Here are the pics.

I30 on the right (HID kit) and Murano left (OEM HIDs). Glare seems about the same. The HID kit is just more white.



Light pattern on the garage looks similar. (I30 on the left and Murano right)

MoncefA33

iTrader: (6)

Wow, very nice!

Does anyone have pics of HIDs in a Maxima halogen housing?

wyche89

yeah, thats not too bad man.. nice job.. your halogen beam pattern was jacked up to begin with though, lol.. looks like ur HIDs made it better

HomerMAC

iTrader: (5)

.. i forget that all the a33 i30's didn't come with HID.. interesting.. since there halogen headlights.. why not retrofit projector them?

sascuderi

Ya I noticed that too. The stock halogen had an odd bending up pattern on the garage door.




I was thinking of doing that but right now I'm satisfied with putting the HID kit in the stock housing.

Also, I looked at a picture of OEM HIDs for the 2000 I30 and it looks like the OEM HIDs were not projectors but in a standard looking housing. The housing looked the same as my halogen! Can anyone confirm that??