I have been reading a lot of the posts about the HID topic. I am up to speed with what the laws are, and I also fully understand that HID's are much better in a projector. What I am wanting to know is if anyone here has used, seen, installed, or purchased the Hellfire HID kit for the JK. I have seen the youtube video and it does make a decent case for the retrofit.

Does anyone: Have these, seen these IRL, installed these, etc. etc.

I purchased a pair of the Phillips Xtreme bulbs going off the advise of this board. I like them, but hardly notice a difference over my stock bulbs. Both of my fogs blew with about 18mo on them. They quit < 10 days apart and at aprox $35 ($50+ through the parts counter at my local dealership) to replace just 1 25 watt bulb is ridiculous. So, I am stuck a pair of white LED bulbs that fit the housing of the fogs. They are useless at night on the road, but they do however give your Jeep more visibility to other drivers. They are bright to look at, but have no focus on the road what so ever. So, I am pretty much back to square one, fog lights that are now great DRL's, and headlights that are poor at best.

I want the new Truck-Lite LED's, but I am afraid to pull the trigger. They are awfully expensive and still so very new to the market, I think I'll wait a while before I just jump on them, (Unless someone can really (REALLY!) sell me on them, that money is staying in my pocket.

The money that it costs to do a real projector refit is a lot. And which ever user said that they look like boobs is right on the money. If there was a plug ang play projector set for around $300-$350, I'd have a hard time saying no.

Anyone have any thoughts, or suggestions.

 

Don't waste your money on the Hellfire kit. If you want crappy HID's without projectors, just get the 55W DDM tuning kit. I have these in a 2012 with no flicker and no other issues to date and they cost about $85 shipped. You will have to adjust them down, same as you would with the hellfire kit to help not blind other drivers. Once adjusted properly you will have the exact same results as the Hellfire video.

-Dick

 

I am very surprised the Philips didn't net you more increase over stock.

I second the post on the DDM HID kit. I only paid 50 bucks for my 35 watt kit. Soon I will be going back to halogen bulbs due to blinding glare from the HIDs.

 

Save your money on headlight up-grades. Just buy a new set of lamps. Invest the big money in auxilary lights. The Silverstars have done an excelient job for me.

 

I came incredibly close to ordering the truck lites but decided to just get the sylvanias for now and spend the extra money on things like the rally d2 for my backup light with the Black Diamond bracket and to upgrade my tweeters

 

I went to Autozone tonight and purchased the Silverstar Ultras. I installed the driver's side first so I could compare it to the Philips xtreme bulb that was still in the passenger's side headlight. There is no discernable difference between the two. I had their torx driver, so I had to go back in to return it. Luckily, they allowed me to return the Silverstars and I got my $55 back. So, back to the drawing board. Damn

 

Projector retrofits aren't expensive at all, especially if you already have some parts on hand.

110.00 for a pair of Morimoto Mini's
20.00 Bi-Xenon harness (you may already have this if you used a PnP Bi-Xenon HID kit as well as old ballasts)
20.00 Misc. bits from Lowes
35.00 For Xenon H1 bulbs.

Also retrofits won't look bug eyed, or booby like since your're utilizing the OEM headlamp housing. The booby lights did look odd sticking out so much, these won't be the case.

Pull the trigger and don't look back. Focused light is the ticket, super sharp cut-offs, awesome highs, definitely the best headlamp solution. Given I already had some parts, my retrofit cost me less than 170, waaay cheaper than LED's and perform vastly better. Plus it's a bonus to oncomers not to have their retinas destroyed.

 

You said "booby lights"

Just kidding, thanks man for the feedback. I just wish there was somewhere reasonable to buy these premade, that look ok and don't carry a HUGE price tag!

 

Here's a link with write up for the Morimoto's in a JK, I think this dude is on this board as well. I think they look sharp, especially the way he done it. They're not that hard to install, the key thing is to just make you have everything centered and of course water tight.

You can find OEM headlamps on here pretty cheap since people swap them out, I got mine from a member here for 25.00 shipped. This way you'll have a back up set in the event you foul up badly and have to revert back to stock.

http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/show...highlight=jeep

 

Does the hellfire, or any other kit work with the daytime running lights?