HID

[SophieSleeps]

Originally Posted by ROCKLAND TOYOTA

IM gonna use my stock housings but i was curious as to what sophie said.......

Yeah, I didn't realize the Yaris used a dual filament headlight bulb.

Listen to Corey.


So the stock bulb has 2 filaments. 1 for lowbeam and 1 for highbeam.
So if you replace this bulb with a standard HID bulb and projector, you will only get a lowbeam.

In order to get around this, you can retrofit a bi-xenon projector.
Essentially, it uses the same bulb but there is a motorized eyelid that comes up and allows light to be emitted as a highbeam when you hit the switch.

I am a fan of the acura projectors more than the BMW ones...but I guess that's more just personal preference.

There is more on this at www.hidplanet.com.
People there get really creative. Lots of great work done.

[sam07yaris]

Originally Posted by SophieSleeps

Yeah, I didn't realize the Yaris used a dual filament headlight bulb.

Listen to Corey.


So the stock bulb has 2 filaments. 1 for lowbeam and 1 for highbeam.
So if you replace this bulb with a standard HID bulb and projector, you will only get a lowbeam.

In order to get around this, you can retrofit a bi-xenon projector.
Essentially, it uses the same bulb but there is a motorized eyelid that comes up and allows light to be emitted as a highbeam when you hit the switch.

I am a fan of the acura projectors more than the BMW ones...but I guess that's more just personal preference.

There is more on this at www.hidplanet.com.
People there get really creative. Lots of great work done.

Hey look for username samlindsay, I did my last retrofit of HID on my civic before it died on me. I am saving up money for tl bixenon since I still have my tsx projectors (low beam xenon). I love the tsx for their clear lense and tons of color. I am contemplating to reuse the tsx projectors and fabricate a a seperate high beam. Anywho people watch out for my retrofit in the coming future!

[SophieSleeps]

Or you can just say f it and do a normal lowbeam projector :)

[ROCKLAND TOYOTA]

^^ or i can just get another sienna setup for the highbeams....... i love working for toyota!

[SophieSleeps]

Originally Posted by ROCKLAND TOYOTA

^^ or i can just get another sienna setup for the highbeams....... i love working for toyota!

You'd probably have to either aim the second set high, or modify the shield inside the projector so that it did not block the light from going upwards.

[07yaris_fe]

New Question.......... please help

[eight_heads]

Originally Posted by 07yaris_fe

New Question.......... please help

and the question is?
anyway... being that our headlights have to built in reflector in front of the bulb, is a projector necessary?

[Chris07LB]

Full write up coming soon...

For now, my H4 HIDs.

They are AMAZING at night!

[Ryosuke]

I have h4 8000k HID's in my car. It lights like a stadium

[TRD_Yaris]

Originally Posted by Ryosuke

I have h4 8000k HID's in my car. It lights like a stadium

yeah, but how's your Horizon-tal Cutoff?? how consistent is the beam pattern, is it brighter in some spots that others, how about glare being casted off of the OEM yaris reflector and plastic headlight lense? can you see the beam clearly in the plastic lense or does it emit through without any visible light diminishment...
bright as a stadium only means you're BLINDING ONCOMING TRAFFIC!!

Originally Posted by SophieSleeps

It's just an online forum man. It's like I called your baby retarded and kicked him down the stairs.

Telling someone to buy 100 dollar bulbs that will decrease your visible light is pretty stupid. If you really knew anything about lighting, you wouldn't spend 200 bucks on filtered headlights and foglight bulbs, nor would you recommend it to other people.

I agree, purchasing any bulb for the 'effect' is pretty lame. And, i think what SophieSleeps is saying about PIAA's is that they COULD be brighter IF they didn't coat the bulb with a blue film to PLEASE the ricers... if you removed that blue film you'd probably free up another 5-10% light...but PIAA makes what people wanna buy..ricer bulbs :P
The only right way to get the blue effect is an HID swap, but I SERIOUSLY don't recommend anything less than a complete swap with either a PROJECTOR setup from an OEM car (bixenons BMW, Infiniti Q45 "gatling gun" xenonsk,etc) OR a good "Casper Shield" or something to give you a good Horizontal Cutoff so that you're not blinding everyone else on the streets.

BTW, Sophie, that headlight setup on the Altezza is FARKING SWEET!!! you gotta show me how you mounted those led's for the turn signals!! Were you on Clublexus.com or Lexusownersclub.com??? I use to frequent them and used their help to modify the Q45 Xenons into my lexus GS (that already had xenons's ,haha). That IS300 looks familiar, very sweet setup..


for $35 i was able to purchase Sylvania Silverstar bulbs that not only give me much brighter, crisper, whiter light output (as opposed to OEM) and an even beam pattern, but also allow me to AVOID losing my warranty on the electric system. BTW, did you guys make sure to change out to the fuses or are you still running the same Fuse Setup from your stock headlight bulbs?? please tell me you've done your homework (Physics - Electrical to be specific) cuz if you don't you're likely to burn out your whole wiring system..try explaining that to your parents :P and Toyota's Warranty department

[eight_heads]

what brand bulbs and ballast did you guys use? and do you guys have just low beams or are they bixenon? and any projectors?

[kty75]

what with the daytime light ? still there ?

[Ryosuke]

I have just low beams, and my ballast are Hella. No proyectors. I hope to mount another kit in the fog lights next month.

[eight_heads]

i thought hids pulled less power and amperage than stock bulbs...?

[Chris07LB]

Originally Posted by eight_heads

i thought hids pulled less power and amperage than stock bulbs...?

Correct, about 35w.

[TRD_Yaris]

Originally Posted by eight_heads

i thought hids pulled less power and amperage than stock bulbs...?

look around the net, many people have found out the hard way with "plug and play" HID kits that never mentioned the difference in power draw..yes 55W down to 35W is the "attraction"..but think about the whole "I NEED A BALLAST to RUN HID's" issue...55W->35W doesn't explain everything..remember the triangle?

check honda-tech.com where HIDs are very popular on non-HID equipped cars You will quickly find out about the MANY issues you will have..including EXTRA negative attention from the cops espcially if you're running 6000K+ bulbs (come on, people..4300K is near crystal clear!!).

but, to each his own..i agree that Silverstars will never be "QUITE" as bright as a good HID Xenon...but total light output is not everything, it's about getting that light to the roadsurface that's important and a simple "plug and play" xenon retrofit will not look like "OEM HID kits".

You can spend $300+ on a good HID kit, or $25 on a set of EXTREMELY high end bulbs by THE BIGGEST NAME in Electric bulbs...SYLVANIA.. again, to each his own. but, if i was gonna drop $300+ just on headlights i would still be driving my lexus . Most of us are here because we've already learned that there IS a certain amount of "cost efficiency" that was necessary enough to buy a yaris
You might as well put on $2000 JDM wheels, limited slip differential, Turbo charger, Supercharger (yes, dumb@sses, you can put both on at same time , check old Group B racing for details), NOS, Tein suspension on there..but then you're gonna be in Mitsubishi EVO IX and WRX STi price territory for a Yaris

[JDMVitz]

So has anyone from Canada successfully installed HIDs? I read that running the HID with DRL during the day time could really affect the longevity of the bulbs and the ballast.

[Supa Lao]

I started buying some parts for my HID retrofit. I got some e46 bi-xenon projectors coming. Now all I gotta do is find some bulb and ballast for cheap. I'm trying to get all the parts I need for the retrofit before I get the car. I hope the car comes in sometime this year