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new bulbs....happy and sad..... #1406350
25/01/2013 16:17
25/01/2013 16:17
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fitted ring xenon ultima to main beam, thinking they would match the hid dips. nope...very yellow looking. i'll see tonight what they are like on the road.

however fitted multi led side light bulbs, they are very cool smile


Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1406365
25/01/2013 18:06
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Ring Ultimas are some of the 'bluest' blubs around and very bright, I have them on my Alfa Spider and 159 but, as you say next to HID's they are not in the same league, unfortunately. Having said that,on the coupe I have HID's on the main beam and I can't flash anymore(!!) although Nismo and the Kind of the LEDs (Jame5) reckon that digital ballasts are the answer.

Jame5 also recommended the cree LED sidelights. Like you I had the multi SMD type and thought them the mutz nutz but now the Crees are in a different league.


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Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1406366
25/01/2013 18:15
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i have 3 sets of hids on my coupe running dipped , main and fogs just so they all match up . i tryed other bulbs but i never managed to find any that did the job .

Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1406411
25/01/2013 20:53
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i had thought about hid mains like my last coupe, but unfortunately over here the mot has got even more stricter. bouncing into them with a lowered sprint blue chav mobile certainly gets these attention.


Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1406415
25/01/2013 20:57
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just remove the bulbs and refit the old bulbs for mot time thumb

Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1406422
25/01/2013 21:31
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i was thinking that, but the poor old ink blue coupe still has its heart lying at the front bumper. i really need to focus on that morerather than playing with the sprinty


Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: Thunderbox] #1415990
14/03/2013 18:22
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Just fitted HIDS to headlights,do you have a link to the cree led sidelights you were talking about?
Cheers Paul thumb

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Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1416012
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I've just fitted the Cree sidelights from the above link, and very pleased with them. They match the HIDs very well, unlike the previous (little cluster of LEDs) side-lights I had fitted.

Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: ] #1416013
14/03/2013 20:04
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Originally Posted by dlongstaff


These are fantastic thumb


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Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1416022
14/03/2013 20:49
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I've just ordered some cree side lights to match my 6000k hids:-)

Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: ] #1416035
14/03/2013 21:43
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Originally Posted by nismo
i have 3 sets of hids on my coupe running dipped , main and fogs just so they all match up . i tryed other bulbs but i never managed to find any that did the job .

Hi Nismo whats the fire up time on Hid main beams? can you recomend any that light instantly my dipped beams take a few seconds to get to full brightness and are a horrible greeny yellow colour (were supposed to be white 6000k but i dont think so)

Going to buy some cree's i think great link
Cheers

Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1416039
14/03/2013 22:06
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Credit to Jame5 for the heads up

Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: zigman36] #1416040
14/03/2013 22:09
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Think I'll order some of those.

If nothing else it'll annoy the mrs

Re: new bulbs....happy and sad..... [Re: ] #1416073
15/03/2013 08:42
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Thank you thumb
Now ordered cheers thumb

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