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Old 08-11-2003, 02:38 PM
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I bought the Sylvania X4656 HID conversion kit and sylvania's X1010 fog light kit. I am very pleased with them. It lights up the road extremely good. The install took me about 2 1/2hrs to do for everything, from removing stock setup to the HID's.
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pretty sweet, what does it take to do a swap? Do you have to rewire your sockets or something?

Do they draw more juice from the battery?
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pretty sweet, what does it take to do a swap? Do you have to rewire your sockets or something?

Do they draw more juice from the battery?
Since its a kit, it comes with everything you need to install them, i had to cut some of the metal piece housing to fit the new bulbs and lenses in. You have to splice one wire into the factory wiring for the low beam. It has its own power wire to the battery. Also you will have to drill to mount the ballasts. If you understand how hid's work, it draws more current at startup than the stock lights, but significantly less after the have started up. In fact my hid's don't dim at all when the bass is up.
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Sweet. Where'd you get them from, and how much they cost?
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looks good!
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pics of tha ballest and the backside of the install?

what about upclose of the lense?
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did the kit come with 4 lights or just 2 lights? and how much did it cost any info would be nice thanks
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Those are awesome:hail: You have to get a picture of them at night. That is very sweet. How much did the kit cost?
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some of the price quotes i recieved where upwards of 700 for the complete kit....does that sound anywhere right?

they look pretty nice, how much better at night and what about if you break something? how much are the replacement parts for bulbs and housings?

any close up pictures of the setup?
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I really don't see whats so special about upgrading your headlights

Those blue-like lights at night annoy the hell out of me and I want to take a bat to everyones lights that are like that. HEH
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