question for HID experts

[ScrooYoo]

i looked for an answer to this on hid planet but couldn't find one. Here is my question

I understand that putting HID's into a reflector can cause a bit of glare, as reflectors are not designed to handle that amount of light output. Would putting hid's in an ebay projector headlight, granted a very poor quality projector, but a projector nevertheless, have less glare than just putting them in stock halogen reflectors?

I know retrofitting is the way to go but I don't have the time, and i'm really not anal about perfect beam pattern and cutoff point. Honestly, I would rather spend $150 for a decent to good improvement rather than $500-$600 for a huge improvement. I've driven my friend's car at night with an hid kit in reflector housing and the light output is very good and worth the $150 for a kit. My main concern is just to minimize glare as much as possible and wondering if a cheap ass taiwan projector would help. Planning on getting 4300k

thanks 4 your help

[white3ch0c0late]

Originally Posted by ScrooYoo

i looked for an answer to this on hid planet but couldn't find one. Here is my question

I understand that putting HID's into a reflector can cause a bit of glare, as reflectors are not designed to handle that amount of light output. Would putting hid's in an ebay projector headlight, granted a very poor quality projector, but a projector nevertheless, have less glare than just putting them in stock halogen reflectors?

I know retrofitting is the way to go but I don't have the time, and i'm really not anal about perfect beam pattern and cutoff point. Honestly, I would rather spend $150 for a decent to good improvement rather than $500-$600 for a huge improvement. I've driven my friend's car at night with an hid kit in reflector housing and the light output is very good and worth the $150 for a kit. My main concern is just to minimize glare as much as possible and wondering if a cheap ass taiwan projector would help. Planning on getting 4300k

thanks 4 your help

It will have less glare than using reflector headlamps for sure, but ...eh, it'll have an ugly cutoff lol. Ask steveyhustle on here. He did it before.

[liquidi3ladz]

Most if not all of those ebay projectors uses H1 housing..

[camry man68]

Instead of getting projectors on ebay get them from www.xtralights.com
But the ones from that sites do not give you as much glare as the stock headlight reflectors.

[LNGasMan]

Got this pic from mj1220mj over at HID planet:


I wouldn't call myself an expert, but if you had the right glare shield, you might make HID work in a reflector housing without too much glare. Look into a 9006 rebased D2R for the Gen5? Either that or retrofit.

[KniperSitten]

The HID lighting is only as good as the projector or lamp it sits in.

Just because there are hot spots, doesn't necessarily mean its a plug and play kit:

hot spots are a problem of two main things:

1. Poor focal point due to either bulb not being installed correctly or bulb is manufactured poorly.

2. Projector it self is a poorly designed projector (very common with H3 projectors)