OBS headlight ?

[scz71864]

im gonna buy some HID's for my 99 tahoe. i wanna put them in my high beams and low beams. the low beams call for a 9005 and the highs are 9006 is that correct?? and how hard is it to change the bulbs in obs trucks

 

[Yuk_Nali_6.0]

You're putting them in your stock lights? Oh brother...

 

[haks310]

Pass for knowing what bulbs, fail for trying to put HIDs in the stock housings. Not that hard to change out the bulbs or headlights, just gotta remove the grill.

Why would you need HIDs in you highs?

 

[Yuk_Nali_6.0]

Pass for knowing what bulbs, fail for trying to put HIDs in the stock housings. Not that hard to change out the bulbs or headlights, just gotta remove the grill.

Why would you need HIDs in you highs?

Actually you don't remove the grille. There's 2 rods on each light that you unscrew and the light comes straight out.

 

[Cdnguy]

Actually you don't remove the grille. There's 2 rods on each light that you unscrew and the light comes straight out.

wrong body style.

 

[scz71864]

well help me out with the housings then please

---------- Post added at 02:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:50 PM ----------

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...4506.m7&_trkparms=algo=LVI&itu=UCI&otn=3&ps=5
this is the same guy atomichoe got his from. it says that they will fit in the stock housing...

 

[haks310]

Problem with doing HIDs in the stock housing is that they are not designed to run HIDs, they are halogen bulb housings. Yeah you can easily do HIDs and have bright lights but your light pattern will suffer and be all over the place.

HIDs are designed to run with either:

A. A projector housing. This is what you see on most vehicles running HIDs. BMW, Acuras, etc. Only problem we have is that nobody makes true projectors headlights for OBS trucks. The ones you find on ebay are not true projectors, don't even look at those.

B. A HID reflector housing, This is what you see on Lincoln vehicles, Mercedes, Acura and Volvo used them years back and I think the Prius comes with them now. Only true, street legal HID reflector housings for the OBS' I have seen are these: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/88-9...ries?hash=item1e58501fbd&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14




Edit: He didn't get those, he got the ones I just linked you to. And those bulbs are just regular halogen bulbs with a blue coating which are suppose to give you the look of HIDs.

 

[scz71864]

ok thanks for the help. to be honest im just looking for a whiter bulb to go in my headlights. im putting white leds in my parking lamps so i wanted to match to color as best i could. to be honest, i really dont kno much about headlights with these trucks so any info would be great

 

[haks310]

You will not find any halogen headlight bulb that will match the LED parking lights. Only way is to go with HIDs and a 6000K+ bulb.

Shit, I have white LEDs in my parking lights and they make my 4300K HIDs look yellow. I will be upgrading to 6000k or 8000k HID bulbs so I should be fine.


How much are you looking to spend if you don't mind me asking?

 

[scz71864]

i mean i dont want to drop alot of money on lighting. even if i can find a coated bulb like you said to match the parking lamps. but my budget is prob around 100$

 

[haks310]

Yeah, highly doubt you will find a bulb that will match the parking lights, LEDs have that blue tint to them..look at my avatar pic, that's what I am running in my parking lamps. Halogens, even coated will still be kinda yellow.

Like I said, you can just buy HIDs and stick them in your stock housings but you won't be doing it the correct way and I am sure your lenses are somewhat fogged.

You can get those headlights and HID kit I posted for $170. I know you've seen Atomic's and bowtifreak's pictures.

 

[Yuk_Nali_6.0]

wrong body style.

I owned a '98 for 7 years and had the headlights out several times. I know what I'm talking about.

 

[scz71864]

lol explain the best way to take them out yuk nali. i really dont wanna take out the grill with my brush guard on it would be a pain

 

[96ProCompTahoe]

take the two bolts out that hold the headlight to the bracket, you can see them sticking up a little above the grill when you open the hood.

works great until you have one of them strip out on you, then your stuck taking the front end of the truck apart.

 

[scz71864]

no haks they are brand new lights. they arnt fogged at all

 

[haks310]

Well you can just go and install a HID kit.

You won't get a nice cut off, as your light dispersion won't be that great, just aim down your headlights so you won't be blinding people.

 

[scz71864]

so those ebay lights i posted up before arnt true HID's they are just coated right?

 

[haks310]

Nope, regular halogen bulbs coated blue. Waste of money, they are less bright than uncoated halogens.

Look up ddmtuning.com if want to go with HIDs

 

[qlc1964]

i got them kits from DDM and i must admit they do light the sides

more and up in the trees more or it could be there just more

brighter and more noticeable .

and i did have to adjust them down so that the main light

beam would blind drivers. i haven't got flash even from a police

in front of me or coming towards me. i did use hid's in the high

beams to because by me adjusting the lights down more the

yellow looking high beams shines at the ground but with the

hi beam hid they fall right in place. these are in my clear haligen

housing

 

[Rollin Thunder]

Dude as cool as those TYC HIDs are, Just buy a Kit and put them in your stock housing. Seriously. Its not as bad as people make them out to be. I have run HIDs in my stock housings for ever and only been flashed twice. Once cause I really did forget my brights were on and the other was in my yukon before I aimed them. Get a 9006 for the lows and 9005 for the highs, and be done.

since you have a yukon denali your options for headlights are not as good if you had a regular yukon or tahoe (in 01 they got projectors so that made them better low beams, but your your gen (gmt 400) denali, theres nothing better than the stock ones. If you get 4300 or 5000k they dont blind as much, and here 4300k HIDS are legal whether their stock or not I found out in traffic court, so thats my source.