Experience with HIDS Direct LTD

[Zu11y]

We never install them at night so the customer doesn't drive off with the headlights on, we ensure the beam pattern is as close to oem as possible, so the cars i have done look very close to oem hid lights

 

[Dieselman]

We never install them at night so the customer doesn't drive off with the headlights on,

That can't be true.!

EVERY car that has these Dazzlemaster lights fitted is driven with them on always, day or night.

It's the Law. They have to let all other road users know they have super-dazzlemasters installed.

Seeing them being used in dense fog the other week was magical. All the drivers could see was a white curtain in front of their car.
You could spot the Barry's a mile away.

 

[gIzzE]

If you use a Reflector HID in a non projector lamp they don't dazzle, problem is too many put in a standard H7 rather than an H7r.
And if you use an HID in a projector lamp it will look completely OEM.


I hate those idiots with the wrong type of bulb in their lights that dazzle, but I also hate it when people have not got their alignment right either with standard halogens. Or those idiots with a car loaded right up who don't adjust their lights accordingly.


I think a few idiots that have fitted HIDs that are not designed for their type of headlight have given this a really bad press and caused the regs to get stricter.

 

[Zu11y]

Seriously mate you just seem totally against these lights, but you really have no clue (with all respect), i agree some idiots do abuse the lights but a vast majority cannot afford the expensive oem option and use the aftermarkets in the same way they would halogens.

Your view is based on card with reflector headlights using a standard hid bulb, as mentioned before when using a special reflector bulb the dazzle is reduced. Furthermore the majority of newer cars are equipped with projector headlights and when installing an aftermarket kit into these the effect is identical to oem and i have verified this using a beam machine at the garage.

 

[Zu11y]

Thanks gizze, thats what i am saying, i don't want to come of as being rude or anything, its just my opinion

 

[Dieselman]

Seriously mate you just seem totally against these lights, but you really have no clue (with all respect), i agree some idiots do abuse the lights but a vast majority cannot afford the expensive oem option and use the aftermarkets in the same way they would halogens.

Your view is based on card with reflector headlights using a standard hid bulb, as mentioned before when using a special reflector bulb the dazzle is reduced. Furthermore the majority of newer cars are equipped with projector headlights and when installing an aftermarket kit into these the effect is identical to oem and i have verified this using a beam machine at the garage.

A HID burner cannot replicate the focal point of an incandescent filament lamp, so cannot be focused by a lamp unit designed for a filament lamp.

That isn't my opinion, its a fact.

 

[Zu11y]

No mate its your opinion, what you have said os true when using a normal bulb, but a h7r is designed to go into a reflector and it replicates the beam pattern very well

 

[Zu11y]

 

[Zu11y]

Again the left car is a h7r vs the right var which is oem

 

[Dieselman]

No mate its your opinion, what you have said os true when using a normal bulb, but a h7r is designed to go into a reflector and it replicates the beam pattern very well

As a seller of these lamps, you should avail yourself of some knowledge.

Just in case I wasn't clear enough.

An HID burner cannot produce light that is focused in the same way as a filament lamp.

A filament had a tightly focused point in the centre of the filament, a burner has the brightest part at the edges of the arc and is dim in the centre.


As Scotty would say.
"Ye canna change the laws of physics, Captain"

Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply

 

[Dieselman]

Again the left car is a h7r vs the right var which is oem

Nice halo on the car on the left.

Are these RHD cars, if so the one to the right has the beam uplift facing us the one to the left should be showing the camera the dipped cutout section.

Nice photo...aptly proves you are wrong.

 

[V12]

I can't be bothered to Google any of this but aren't h7r those mickey mouse bulbs with a little black strip on them?

Can you take some pics of the next kit you fit? Before and after pictures of the beam on a wall from 20ft.

 

[Dieselman]

I can't be bothered to Google any of this but aren't h7r those mickey mouse bulbs with a little black strip on them?

Can you take some pics of the next kit you fit? Before and after pictures of the beam on a wall from 20ft.

Make it 100ft, you can see the scatter much better then.

 

[Zu11y]

yh h7r have a sticker on them, and defo will do, as for the image, the car on the left (left of the image) actually is quite similar to the one on the right, so does prove that if done in a correct way, you can achieve a dazzle free set up

 

[Zu11y]

its actually quite surprising as most of the cars we do already have factory hid kits and the owners does not want to pay the stupid cost from the dealers, and in this case its perfectly legal to fit and use an aftermarket hid kit

 

[Dieselman]

its actually quite surprising as most of the cars we do already have factory hid kits and the owners does not want to pay the stupid cost from the dealers, and in this case its perfectly legal to fit and use an aftermarket hid kit

I don't understand.

Why would someone want to have a new aftermarket kit fitted to a car that already has a factory HID lamp setup?

 

[markjay]

Yes that got me confused as well... perhaps he is referring to the cost of replacing a failed original HID system (or components of)?

Somehow I just I can't really see hoards of brand new MB owners flocking to his workshop to have the rubbish original HID system replaced with this great aftermarket kit...

 

[Dieselman]

Yes that got me confused as well... perhaps he is referring to the cost of replacing a failed original HID system (or components of)?

Or just confused about Xenon lamp units having the word Xenon on them to show they are designed to focus an HID burner...

Who knows...??

 

[Giantvanman]

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[markjay]

Zu11y, you are polite and well-mannared, I'll give you that. I mean it.

But I am afraid that the point that you are putting forward (and your trade) will not get you much support on here.