Post Your VETTE-HID Pics
Melting Slicks
Joined: Sep 2001
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From: Lancaster County PA
St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08-'09-'10
Originally Posted by LarryW
Sounds like the lights in your 'Mo may not be adjusted correctly; we have an 04 Infiniti FX35 (not exactly the same vehicle but being a Nissan product, maybe some of the HID components are shared) and haven't experienced any of the issues that you describe.
I can't begin to tell you how many passengers I've had remark on just how phenomenal the HIDs in our FX35 work
Matter of fact, the low beams are so good I have never used the high beams other than to test them just to make sure that they still work 
I put the Vette-HIDs on par with our FX35 HIDs
Just waiting for Brian to market an HID solution for my DD, a 1994 Ford Probe GT where an HID setup will probably cost more than what the car is worth :o
I can't begin to tell you how many passengers I've had remark on just how phenomenal the HIDs in our FX35 work
Matter of fact, the low beams are so good I have never used the high beams other than to test them just to make sure that they still work I put the Vette-HIDs on par with our FX35 HIDs
Just waiting for Brian to market an HID solution for my DD, a 1994 Ford Probe GT where an HID setup will probably cost more than what the car is worth :o
Pics to come.
Racer
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: Elkton Md
Originally Posted by BarneePhife
Cliff,
I'm not picking on you, I promise!!
I'm not picking on you, I promise!!
One thought that I had with the Murano is that the headlights are high enough on the vehicle that they almost have to aim down to keep from being in oncoming traffics eyes. I have wondered if the headlights were lower, say like on a vette or stang, and could be aimed upwards a little more, maybe these issues would not be as noticable. I do intend to run HID's in the FFR Roadster (Cobra) I'm building, just so I can do some placement and testing to see if I can get better results than what I have in the Murano.
I do like the fact that in your pics it appears that the light projection gets higher as it goes away. That's definately not the case with Murano's. I may have to take some pics similar to yours of my Muranos lighting just for comparison. In the first of your last two pics, showing the spread of the pattern, it looks like you might have 30-40 feet of distance of light, then it's black. That's not much visability. Now imagine if the land was not flat, a lot of roads are cut through hilly areas and are lower than the yards/fields/land beside the roads. Your mailbox pics are a great example for me. Your beams at the closest mailbox appear to be about two feet up at the cut off. If the road you were on had just a two foot hill on each side of it, your light would be completely blocked to the sides and you could not see if something was ready to jump out onto the road.
Do you recall the area where those pics were taken? Is the area where the road goes dark a dip, or is that the cut off of the light projection. It looks more like a shadow in a dip in the road but if you follow the cut off from the sides through the grass, it looks like the cut off would be in that general area. But then the mailboxes beyond that point are lit up, the second one on each side is beyond that point, and is that a third mailbox on the left or something else. Whatever that is, it would not be lit up by the HID's in the Murano. Neither would the second mailbox on the left and maybe not even the second on the right. In the Murano, above the cut off line is dark, no light, period. What's lit is lit (and bright as daylight) but what's not lit is dark.
I question all of this because I live and travel on hilly, twisty, unlit, country roads. The low beam lighting in the Murano is absolutely dangerous on a lot of the roads I travel. I would have to see a massive difference in light pattern to drop a dime on HID's for any of my cars. I will probably be waiting until someone has a non pop-up HID for C5's before I buy anyways. Someone on here (mray) was working on them. Don't know if he ever got anywhere. I may have to do it myself. I will test on my FFR first.
Cliff
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Racer
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: Elkton Md
Originally Posted by LarryW
Sounds like the lights in your 'Mo may not be adjusted correctly; we have an 04 Infiniti FX35 (not exactly the same vehicle but being a Nissan product, maybe some of the HID components are shared) and haven't experienced any of the issues that you describe.
I can't begin to tell you how many passengers I've had remark on just how phenomenal the HIDs in our FX35 work Matter of fact, the low beams are so good I have never used the high beams other than to test them just to make sure that they still work
I put the Vette-HIDs on par with our FX35 HIDs
Just waiting for Brian to market an HID solution for my DD, a 1994 Ford Probe GT where an HID setup will probably cost more than what the car is worth :o
I can't begin to tell you how many passengers I've had remark on just how phenomenal the HIDs in our FX35 work
Matter of fact, the low beams are so good I have never used the high beams other than to test them just to make sure that they still work I put the Vette-HIDs on par with our FX35 HIDs
Just waiting for Brian to market an HID solution for my DD, a 1994 Ford Probe GT where an HID setup will probably cost more than what the car is worth :o
I'm just guessing that maybe you live in a more cityfied area than me. If your roads are lit at all, it's not the same as being in the country. I'm glad you like your HID's and hope they work as well as you think. I thought mine were the greatest thing since sunshine, until I started noticing what I could not see.
BTW, I love Probe's, especially GT's. I will have one someday, rear wheel drive, tube chassis, small block, 5 speed. Yep, that's the chit!
Cliff
