H-1 HID's

[STLR FN]

Has anyone tried converting their "fogs" to these? Just curious.


http://www.symmicauto.com/images/auto/HID.jpg

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HID-XENON-HEADLAMP-HEADLIGHT-H1-H-1-BULB-CONVERSION-KIT_W0QQitemZ8021039886QQcateg oryZ36476QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem# ebayphotohosting

[shakes_26]

no, but I was kicking the idea around, seems a bunch of folks in the Focus forums have been doign HID conversions.

[Marauderjack]

I ran the "Super White" SilverStars for almost 100 hours and both went out on the same day!!!:mad2: Called Sylvania and they said 50-100 hours is all you can expect since they run so hot??:confused:

Back to the "Yellow" OEM's since I run mine all the time and the OEM's will last thousands of hours??:bows:

Haven't considered your option but would be interested depending on the price as the OEM's really are dull looking!!:argue:

Marauderjack:D

[Marauder]

I've been considering the upgrade myself. One of my H1s went out the other day.

[Marauder2005]

Also considering the idea. Will the ones you just posted fit our

Marauders?

[teamrope]

I ran the "Super White" SilverStars for almost 100 hours and both went out on the same day!!!:mad2: Called Sylvania and they said 50-100 hours is all you can expect since they run so hot??:confused:


And I just replaced my burned out h1's with Silverstars..... :banghead:

[merc6]

I had Cats 4100(hot white brighter than acura TL) in my 6 till I started stripping it in prep for sale. I miss those things soo much to the point I could drive right now with or without headlights and not know it! The fogs would be my idea cause i'm not shure how it would look in the headlights. I had to cut and so other things for them to work on my 6 anyone do it yet?

[Marauder]

And I just replaced my burned out h1's with Silverstars..... :banghead:

Mine lasted almost 2 years. I was seriously considering HIDs for the H1s.

[Blackened300a]

Home - Ultra Bright Lights.com (http://www.ultrabrightlights.com/index.php) Heres all your HID needs.

My friend has their Kit in his Lincoln LS and they work beautifully

[Marauder2005]

Home - Ultra Bright Lights.com (http://www.ultrabrightlights.com/index.php) Heres all your HID needs.

My friend has their Kit in his Lincoln LS and they work beautifully

Thats where I got the kit for my Marauder headlights, but I do not think

they sell the kit for our foglights... Does anyone know what size/type our

fogs are? I know our headlights are 9007, but I have no clue what type

of foglight we have.

[Marauder]

Thats where I got the kit for my Marauder headlights, but I do not think

they sell the kit for our foglights... Does anyone know what size/type our

fogs are? I know our headlights are 9007, but I have no clue what type

of foglight we have.

H1...hence the title of this post. :D

H1s are popular in European cars for the high beams and American cars for the fog/driving lights. My sis-in-law has H1s high beams in here VW.

www.ultrabrightlights.com has the H1s....right on their homepage. :D I might look into them. Were you pleased with the kit itself?

[Marauder2005]

[quote=Marauder]H1...hence the title of this post. :D

H1s are popular in European cars for the high beams and American cars for the fog/driving lights. My sis-in-law has H1s high beams in here VW.

www.ultrabrightlights.com (http://www.ultrabrightlights.com) has the H1s....right on their homepage. :D I might look into them. Were you pleased with the kit itself?[/quot



LOL please excuse me, I am part of an oragainzation for morons, local

6 and 7/8 (3 stooges reference :D ) I have been know to ask stupid

questions. Anyway, I wish they had our lights with a high beam option

but we have the 9007s, so we lose our HB option with the HIDs.

I have had the 8000k HIDs since last May, with no problems.

Once the Winter comes to an end I think Im gonna

order a kit for the fogs. Thanks for the clearing that up for me. :rolleyes:

[Blackened300a]

Were you pleased with the kit itself?

Speaking for my freind, He's very happy with them, Its all plug and play. Your Stock headlight connecter plugs into a ballast box which plugs into the Bulb. The hardest part of the install is the mounting of the ballast boxes.
Your Factory harness is protected by the factory relays and fuses so nothing will be harmed from the install and HID's run cooler then Halogen bulbs so you wont melt the Headlamps.
I would have done the install sooner but rear tires are my #1 priority at the moment

[merc6]

Don't go past 8k or oven 6K cause you loose the human visable light and start driving around with black lights for headlights.

[rayjay]

Mine lasted almost 2 years. I was seriously considering HIDs for the H1s.

Got about 14 months out of mine, they went out a couple days apart last week. They are on most of the time. Great for driving in snow!

[Marauder]

Don't go past 8k or oven 6K cause you loose the human visable light and start driving around with black lights for headlights.

I agree....they say the best clor temperature is 5300k because it is closest to sunlight.

I just ordered an H1 6000k kit. Once I install, I'll post pix and report on it. :)

[Marauder2005]

I agree....they say the best clor temperature is 5300k because it is closest to sunlight.

I just ordered an H1 6000k kit. Once I install, I'll post pix and report on it. :)


Great, my only concern was that the bulbs for the HIDs are very long and I

can remember they seemed to hardly fit in the headlight housing. I know

there is not alot of room in the fog light lense for a long bulb. Did you

get the kit from ultrabrightlights.com ?

[merc6]

good one, never thought about lengh. My h1s weren't that much longer but they were jdm so I can't fully vouch for others. Wish I didn't sell them now.

[Marauder]

Great, my only concern was that the bulbs for the HIDs are very long and I

can remember they seemed to hardly fit in the headlight housing. I know

there is not alot of room in the fog light lense for a long bulb. Did you

get the kit from ultrabrightlights.com ?

I removed the light baffle so there should be plenty of room in the fog light housing. I did this about a year ago and it projects more light onto the road even with stock bulbs.

I ordered mine from www.xenonpros.com off of ebay. It is the same McColluch kit that www.ultrabrightlights.com offers but $30 cheaper and free shipping. :D

[Marauder2005]

I removed the light baffle so there should be plenty of room in the fog light housing. I did this about a year ago and it projects more light onto the road even with stock bulbs.

I ordered mine from www.xenonpros.com (http://www.xenonpros.com) off of ebay. It is the same McColluch kit that www.ultrabrightlights.com (http://www.ultrabrightlights.com) offers but $30 cheaper and free shipping. :D

Awsome, could you post some pics when your done, I want to copy you :D

[Marauder]

Awsome, could you post some pics when your done, I want to copy you :D

I definitely will. :)

Anyone have pix of their 9007 HIDs?

[Marauder2005]

Sorry dude I would, but do not have a digi camera. Someone else

on this board has 8000k HIDs I believe...

[Rider90]

I definitely will. :)

Anyone have pix of their 9007 HIDs?
Reaper948 has 10000k McCulloch HIDs
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/gallery/data/500/City2signature_copy.jpg

[cougarmandan]

I already get all kinds of people flashing me when I have the fog lamps on. It there any kind of adjustment on the fog lamps? I haven't messed with it yet but one of these days, i will crawl under there and give a gander.

[Marauder]

I already get all kinds of people flashing me when I have the fog lamps on. It there any kind of adjustment on the fog lamps? I haven't messed with it yet but one of these days, i will crawl under there and give a gander.

When I did the fog light mod, I had to remove the housing. To remove, you have to unscrew the adjustment screw used for aiming. It is a brass colored long screw. Your fog lights might be aimed high pointing at other drivers.

When I install my HIDs, I'm going to aim them straighter. Right now, They are aimed a bit down so they light only project in the front of the car and not too far out.

[wchain]

I was trying to generate group guy interest a while back fro HID fogs and 9007s but I guess it died. IS there additional interest in that again?

[Big House]

Heck yes!!!!!! I am in.

[Marauder]

OK....I received the H1 HID kit. It might involve more work than I thought. Even though we have a standard H1 bulb, it fits into an adapter/mounting thingy before the connector plugs in.

The H1 HID capsule is the same as the H1 bulb itself but MAY not be 100% plug-n-play.

I'm gonna get it to work but it will take a small amount of extra work.

[shakes_26]

post some pics of the adapter thingy, and the other bits. I'd be interested in seeing if there is a way to modify with something oem-like.

thanks

[Marauder2005]

When I did my headlights, I had to cut the factory harness from the

headlight assembly and butt-connect the new power pack in for

the HIDs. Is this what you mean?

[Marauder]

When I did my headlights, I had to cut the factory harness from the

headlight assembly and butt-connect the new power pack in for

the HIDs. Is this what you mean?

That too... It is supposed to by plug-n-play but it came with bare wires so i'll have to splice those it.

The bulb part would be plug-n-play but I'll blame Mercury for that one. :D

But I'm talking about how the bulb mounts into the assembly. The bulb fits in the slot perfectly but there's no way to hold it there. The stock H1 is held in with a plastic connector/adapter. Since the HID capsule has the 2 wires coming off it, I needed to chop up the mounting connector just so it could hold the bulb in place.

I'm going to take pictures by this coming weekend of what I'm talking about.

[Marauder2005]

Thanks Marauder...

[Marauder]

Thanks Marauder...

And once again, thank Mercury. :D In all honesty, the adapter with the H1 bulb in it look an awful lot like a 9005/9005 bulb.

[Rider90]

Thanks for going through all this, Danny. It is very helpful to those that want to do the conversion.

Marauder2005 - Where did you purchase your headlights? I am looking for plug and play, and does a system exist?

[Marauder2005]

Thanks for going through all this, Danny. It is very helpful to those that want to do the conversion.

Marauder2005 - Where did you purchase your headlights? I am looking for plug and play, and does a system exist?

Rider90, I got the them the same place "Marauder" got his, at

www.ultrabrightlights.com Great people to deal with, but the 9007 kit

in out cars is not all plug and play. I had to butt-connect the low beam

wires from our headlight harness (off the healights assembly) to the HID

power pack. But all in all it was easy.

Best, Mike

[Rider90]

Rider90, I got the them the same place "Marauder" got his, at

www.ultrabrightlights.com Great people to deal with, but the 9007 kit

in out cars is not all plug and play. I had to butt-connect the low beam

wires from our headlight harness (off the healights assembly) to the HID

power pack. But all in all it was easy.

Best, Mike
Good to hear, do you have any pictures? how many "K" are the lights? I've seen dual-beam HIDs around for an extra $100....

[MENINBLK]

And once again, thank Mercury. :D In all honesty, the adapter with the H1 bulb in it look an awful lot like a 9005/9005 bulb.

The H1 with the adapter looks a lot like an 881 bulb.
http://www.eautoworks.com/html/ORD-Light~bulbs-Luminics-No-33118.htm
http://www.eautoworks.com/productimages/881purple.jpg

[Marauder]

The H1 with the adapter looks a lot like an 881 bulb.
http://www.eautoworks.com/html/ORD-Light~bulbs-Luminics-No-33118.htm
http://www.eautoworks.com/productimages/881purple.jpg

Yup...very similar to that....L Shaped.

To get the basic idea, this is what it looks like with the adapter.

This is the bulb by itself:
http://images.auctionworks.com/hi/67/67002/h1.jpg
http://images.auctionworks.com/hi/67/67002/h1-back.jpg

So you get the idea of what custom stuff I need to do....but i'm determnied to do it!!! :D

[Marauder2005]

Good to hear, do you have any pictures? how many "K" are the lights? I've seen dual-beam HIDs around for an extra $100....

Sorry no pictures, I got the 8000K (blue) They put the stock lights to

shame. Id post pics, but no digi. camera, they have pics on the website

of other cars with the 8000K. They do not make the high-beam HIDs for

our cars, or any car with duel-filliment bulbs (that have high-beam and

low-beam in one bulb/9007/9004/Etc.)

[Marauder]

Sorry no pictures, I got the 8000K (blue) They put the stock lights to

shame. Id post pics, but no digi. camera, they have pics on the website

of other cars with the 8000K. They do not make the high-beam HIDs for

our cars, or any car with duel-filliment bulbs (that have high-beam and

low-beam in one bulb/9007/9004/Etc.)

I saw one place that has a dual 9007 HID capsule but it looked funny and was too expensive. It wasn't even a dual bulb...it was a solenoid that moved the capsule to mimic a high beam.
http://www.xenonvalot.com/xpic/9004_9007_animated.gif

This is the H4 kit...I just laugh when I see this:
http://www.xenonvalot.com/xpic/h4_dual_hylow_anim.gif


The other place I saw had a true dual chamber capsule HID but it was European site and it was like a grand!!!


Update on my "custom" adapter:
Dremel tools are freakin awesome!!!
:banana:

More to come...and pix.

[Marauder2005]

I saw one place that has a dual 9007 HID capsule but it looked funny and was too expensive. It wasn't even a dual bulb...it was a solenoid that moved the capsule to mimic a high beam.
http://www.xenonvalot.com/xpic/9004_9007_animated.gif

This is the H4 kit...I just laugh when I see this:
http://www.xenonvalot.com/xpic/h4_dual_hylow_anim.gif


The other place I saw had a true dual chamber capsule HID but it was European site and it was like a grand!!!


Update on my "custom" adapter:
Dremel tools are freakin awesome!!!
:banana:

More to come...and pix.

"Marauder" you don't remember where you saw this duel beam kit do you?

The one with the solenoid. If not, no problem.

Thanks

[Marauder]

"Marauder" you don't remember where you saw this duel beam kit do you?

The one with the solenoid. If not, no problem.

Thanks

http://www.xenonvalot.com/9007_9004_dual_beam_bi_xenon.h tml
Thats the place from the pix above for the dual beam kit. They are somewhere in Europe and the price is 650 Euros...which is like $860...not including overseas shipping. They say the kit is 4200k...that's not too far off in color temperature from Sylvania Silver Stars or the PIAA Xtreme Whites I have.

The place that had the dual capsules I can't seem to find now.