The $53.50 eBay HID Kit Installed & Working

[ChinoCharles]

Originally Posted by GreenSpeed

Great article Charles. Thanks!

Hey, no problem. If you have any further questions PM me. I probably won't know the answers, but I will know where/who to direct you to.

[Lafiro]

Is there a depo projector kit for the yaris sedan?
And if not, maybe I should get the bixenon kit the same ebay seller has?(I need a new HID kit ASAP!!!)

[The Architect]

No there is not a depo projector set for the sedan.

Ill let the others chime in about whether you should get what if any HIDs to put in the regular reflective housing.

[taKuto]

bixenon glare kits are utter fail. HID low beam, mini halogen high beam. Definitely grabs attention with the big difference in light intensity.
When I went with a glare kit, I decided to lose the high beams. I hardly use high beams in city anyways, who needs them when your glare lights up the sky.

[Lafiro]

The way I have the ones I have now are in the regular hosuing, but there is an adapter that is suppose to have a cutoff of light, and then the bulb(H4 I believe) then goes inside that normally, and when I set the lights down enough, I must say it does a good job at lighting, and I dont get highbeamed, but the cutoff light is smeered and not exact like projectors obviously. I was just wondering if it was a good idea to do the bixenon light just to get my hi-beams back.

I wish they made the depo projectors for the sedan, I do not understand the reason why no company has done so yet.

[window_lee]

i am having the projector headlight too,. i am wondering how to fit the H1 HID for the H4?

[The Architect]

canada huh, sounds a bit off but uhh lets see.

if youve got the depo projectors like everyone else then you just need an H1 HID Kit, they slide right and your good to go....pretty much.

[GreenSpeed]

^^^^Uh, oh. I picked up the 9300 HID kit because that's the headlight bulb size listed on the sticky in this forum. I hope that's not gonna create a major problem.

[Lafiro]

Yeah I was going to ask, whats the difference between H4 and 9003? Stock bulbs are listed as 9003, but the ones already installed are H4.

[GreenSpeed]

^^^yup...meant to say 9003.

[Lafiro]

What do you guys think about the bi-xenon kits with the moving bulb instead. Is this better then having a single bulb with 2 light sources inside?

[nsmitchell]

So these "Swift Retrofits" drop right in? $307.00? That sounds interesting... I like the black projectors. I think it would look sweet with my red LB.

[The Architect]

yes they do, ive seen some on ebay for less than that.

[GreenSpeed]

I got the 9003 kit in and sure enough, it's significantly larger than the opening of the depot projectors. If anyone has the depot style projectors and plans to add this HID kit, be sure to follow Architect's advice and get the H1 kit!!!

I ended up re-ordering the H1 and am going to try and work out a refund for the 9003 set with the vendor.

Architect, you said that the H1 kit fits almost perfectly. The stock depot projector bulbs are so freakin tiny (no wonder people complain about the output). What type of modification did you need to do to get the H1 bulbs to fit and secure in place?

This has been a great thread BTW.

[taKuto]

usually the kit bulbs are shortened to fit, it's just a matter of putting them in and firing them up. I think you should've just bought H1 HID kit bulbs and reused the ballasts, but hopefully that refund works out.

[Split]

my IS300 came with 4100k 35w HIDs in a REFLECTOR HOUSING.
In the girlfriend's yaris I put in a high-low moving type dual bi-xenon h4 55w 5000k kit. It has one of those shields that's supposed to make the cut-off better and make it less blinding. It still glared up a tiny bit, so we aimed it down about 1*degree and now its just fine. Its not blinding at all. She can drive right behind me and it just looks like the car probably came with HIDs, or they're one of those blue-tinted halogens. raised trucks with halogens is way more blinding.

that said since its aimed down a degree, it isn't really that much brighter than stock, even though its a 55w kit. it is definitely brighter, don't get me wrong, its just not as bright as i would have hoped for.

[bayou blue Yuri]

So I'm putting in my H4 kit (thats what the stock bulbs are) and I'm having issues.

The harness for my kit only has 2 prongs and not 3 like a regular H4 bulb.


So when I installed the kit and turned them on...nothing. So I turned the harness around 180 deg. and still nothing on LOW beam but if I turn on highs they turn on.

Ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

[taKuto]

you'll have to move one of the pins to the top, the negative should be at the top