What Kind Of Bulbs?
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siracergrl
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Mine are 6000k and give off a whitish blue tint. I swapped out my HIDs from my 8th and put them in the 9th.
On my 9th gen:
On my 8th gen:
On my 9th gen:
On my 8th gen:
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35watt, 9006, 5000k or 6000k bulbs will be blue (6k more blue). 4300 is pretty much pure white. Oem bulbs from car companies like Acura are 4300k.
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I don't see why not but I'm not 100% sure on that. I've only ever had 1 set of HIDs in my car at once. You may have to do something to support all the power though.
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It's not really good to have high beam hid bulbs. It's not good to flash them on/off as it takes a lot of juice, and it takes a while for the bulbs to fully ignite. It will reduce the life of the parts.
8k bulb on right
8k bulb on right
Good point I forgot they do take a few seconds to get to full power. I'll just leave my stock highs and I like your 8k, nice and blue. I have some yellow fogs coming in so I think it will look great. I drive on mostly very well light roads so I don't think It'll be to big of a problem with reduced visibility.
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yeah, that was just a pic of 8k bulbs I found - not my car. Another option, depending on budget would be a retrofit. You can do a bixenon hid projector that would let you have high/low beam HIDs.
http://9thcivic.com/forum/threads/custom-lightz-9th-generation-honda-civic-retrofit.2359/
when you have a setup like that above, the projector moves a shield up/down to produce high beams. That way it's not firing a hid bulb on/off.
View: http://youtu.be/Of63-hn97tA
http://9thcivic.com/forum/threads/custom-lightz-9th-generation-honda-civic-retrofit.2359/
when you have a setup like that above, the projector moves a shield up/down to produce high beams. That way it's not firing a hid bulb on/off.
View: http://youtu.be/Of63-hn97tA
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little lower down on the drop down "9006/hb4" for you low beam headlights
team3d
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nokya halogen bulbs are the best in terms of price and quality
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so i have a 9th gen civic SI & im having some trouble finding the right type of HID kit and yellow foggies. im afraid ill buy the wrong sets of lights. can anyone help me? plus i checked out a place and they told me the needed the type of bulbing my car uses for headlights so? help anyone, lol please and thanks!
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stock uses -
fogs12V 55 Watt H11 Halogen bulbs
headlight:
Low beam headlights:HB4 which is 9006
High beam headlights:HB3 which is 9005
Hi,
What year is your Si and Sedan or Coupe?
I'm asking because the 13' Si Sedan uses different fog light bulb.
Hi Webby,
13' Si Sedan Fog lights uses 35 Watt H8 bulbs
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^thank you. I should have just referred them to the bulb chart -
http://9thcivic.com/forum/threads/bulb-sizes-lamp-replacement-guide.5990/
http://9thcivic.com/forum/threads/bulb-sizes-lamp-replacement-guide.5990/