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Old May 18, 2010 | 10:54 AM
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Headlight swap questions/HID lights

Ok so I've been looking into going with HID lights for a long time and finally haw the money to do so I just wanted to know from others what's best what to avoid what worked and how to do this in the cleanist looking and most asthetically pleasing manner.
I have a 96 runner, I wanted to know if to retrofit HID's I needed to do the headlight conversion. Also wanted to know what ballasts and lenses are the best. Also wanted to know where to get the angel eye lights. Any and all advice or expiriences would be good just want to do this once and have it be done with nothing but the best.
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Old May 18, 2010 | 11:34 AM
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if you gonna do a retrofit i suggest you get some 99+ 4runner headlight. On the projector that is up to you do you want a low beam or high and low.
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Old May 18, 2010 | 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by b0n3mast3r
if you gonna do a retrofit i suggest you get some 99+ 4runner headlight. On the projector that is up to you do you want a low beam or high and low.
I want a low and high I'll settle for a low and the angel eye running lights if o have to.
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Old May 18, 2010 | 01:21 PM
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CHeck out Tofer's HID kits. I bought a set of hi/lo beams HID's from him. I am very happy with them
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Old May 18, 2010 | 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by ocdropzone
CHeck out Tofer's HID kits. I bought a set of hi/lo beams HID's from him. I am very happy with them

Do you have a link for the website?
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Old May 18, 2010 | 02:52 PM
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unless you plan on baking the build in reflectors, your HIDs would be extremely spotty.
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Old May 18, 2010 | 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by MaK92-4RnR
unless you plan on baking the build in reflectors, your HIDs would be extremely spotty.
That's exactly what I'm planning to do, I just wanted to know if there were projectors that were better than others and maybe ballast that were betters than others.

I've heard that digital ballast are better, and also getting 55w ballasts are the best. Anyone know more about this?
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Old May 18, 2010 | 08:59 PM
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lowbeam hid[IMG][/IMG]

highbeam hid
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Old May 19, 2010 | 10:31 AM
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Looks good, is that with or without projectors? What brand ballasts?
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Old May 19, 2010 | 10:53 AM
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this is with out projector i hate it cuz it blind the sheit out of every one that i pass on the passenger side. when i am on the freeway
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Old May 19, 2010 | 11:56 AM
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I'll have to do the projector retrofit then. Do you know if the 99 4runner headlights are direct fit, no modifying needed?
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Old Aug 24, 2010 | 09:20 AM
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any body know the name for the adapter going from the D2s to amp? I want to use OEM D2s ballast w/ ignitor built-in.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2x-Xe...ht_1986wt_1165
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