headlights

[Zoomad75]

Wow...I've seen some good HID retrofits and some bad ones. If I'm in my K5 it's not a bother because I'm high enough not to have the lights drilling a hole in the back of my head if they are behind me. Now same dude with poorly setup HIDs behind me in my 2wd S10 DD and I'm ready to pull him over and beat the snot out of him. Nothing but a blinding wall of light hitting all three of my mirrors reflecting into my eyes. That's with deep tint on the side and back glass.

I've done the relay and H4 conversion on my K5 and switched from sealed beams to composites on my S10 with relays as well (97 didn't have relays either) and aimed right, they have a LOT of focused light output without pissing off other drivers. I wrote most of that DIY article on Jeff's site listed early on in this thread and with mine done I've yet to be pulled over by the police or get flashed by oncoming drivers with only my low beams on. Now If I throw on the 100watt H1's that are part of the lower housing of my H4 conversion bulbs I'll double my light output down the road but it's so much I'm guaranteed to get flashed if I was dumb enough to leave them on with oncoming traffic. Those are strictly off road or no-oncoming traffic use..