How to install HIDs **VIDEO**

[BlizzardX23]

Can someone sticky this? I found a GREAT video on Youtube!


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[T3rry]

great video, shows people exactly how to blind oncoming traffic.


Don't put HID's in halogen housings.

 

[BlizzardX23]

..theres a big difference between your trucks headlights...and mine...that happens with yours...not mine

The standard NBS Yukon/Tahoe doesnt come with Projectors which have a cut-off...I've never once been flashed since I put my HIDs in...My truck isnt blinding from the front....you should just upgrade your headlights to Denali headlights

 

[MikeTheApeman]

sometimes I just want to choke people......

That video shows installation of HID's into REFLECTOR housings. Yes, the installation should be the same, but let's be clear on the message: putting HID's into reflector housings is a BAD idea.

 

[BlizzardX23]

very very true! I dont disagree at all...but they are going to do it either way...so instead of writing it out each time...just give them the video..

plus, lots of us on here are upgrading from stock Yukon housings to Denali housings for the projectors...this will help them to install HIDs into those as well

 

["350Vortec"]

Good video! Thanks Blizz~!

 

[Rollin Thunder]

sometimes I just want to choke people......

That video shows installation of HID's into REFLECTOR housings. Yes, the installation should be the same, but let's be clear on the message: putting HID's into reflector housings is a BAD idea.

Reflectors have come along way I showed you the pics of my HIDS in the stock reflector tahoe, you mentioned they looked like projectors.

 

[DenaliAK]

Kind of an incomplete video since the wiring and ballasts are already installed. Anyone can just pop a bulb in. But, if someone has never done that, then it is helpful.

 

[BlizzardX23]

wiring and ballasts were installed?

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Thats how the kit comes...plug and play...thats how I installed mine (it doesnt come with relays...power cables..ground)

everything you saw him do is EXACTLY how I hooked mine up...*only...he mounted his already*

but theres only those 4 cables you have to hook up...nothing else

 

[DenaliAK]

Well, ok, so maybe there wasn't a wiring harness involved, but the ballasts were already in place. Some of the kits I've seen have basically no instructions, so not knowing what to do with the ballasts is a fairly big issue.

It is pretty PnP, but I still think they should have explained what goes into the ballast and what comes out and where you put it. It's simple enough, they just glossed over it like everyone would already know that. For a how-to video, it wasn't complete enough IMHO.

 

[Yukon]

so someone educate me.... why can't i put hid's into my stock gmc yukon housings?

 

[BlizzardX23]

You can, theres just debate whether the stock housings (Non Denali/Non Projector Lens) has a good enough reflection pattern to not blind other drivers since the HIDs are so bright. Some say the stock housing spreads the light in an uncontrolled manner..and some say that the housings were designed with a reflection pattern well enough to not blind other drivers. Everything else is physically the same...connections...etc...

 

[T3rry]

the only people that think HID's in a stock housing are a good idea, are the people sitting behind them.

the only time it's OK to put a HID in a stock housing, is if that's what came out of it.

 

[BlizzardX23]

Then it looks like you might as well stick with ****** halogens...or upgrade to Denali

 

[Yukon]

so it just has to do with blinding other people... i was thinking it had something to do with catching fire or melting or something harmfull like that..... i'll keep that in mind though.

 

[Rollin Thunder]

you can get denali projectors on a regular yukon quite easilly though.

 

[BlizzardX23]

Nah...your good Yukon...If I think someones headlights are too bright or their hi-beams are on...I flash them...not to be a dick...but to let them know its too bright....Throw'em in there...if people dont flash you, its obviously not that bad to the other drivers...I see people around here all the time with HIDs..and they dont have projector bulbs...not an issue when they are driving towards me...

 

[Rollin Thunder]

I see tons of lights that are too bright, but I just dont flash because I know it wont do anything. So if people dont flash you it does not mean they are ok. IMO just spend the 200 bucks and get denali projectors.

 

[BlizzardX23]

It is doing something...its letting people know their lights are too bright/too high

its simple...if I ever got flashed..it would mean "HEY...my lights are obviously too bright...or not adjusted correctly...I better fix that"

Its not too hard to understand if you get flashed a couple of times...it helps the driver to know he needs to do something different...and yea, it does work.

Just like when my Dad had lifted his jeep...he had some bright Halogens...after getting flashed a couple of times, he realised he had to either change the bulbs...or adjust the headlight

 

[Rollin Thunder]

It is doing something...its letting people know their lights are too bright/too high

its simple...if I ever got flashed..it would mean "HEY...my lights are obviously too bright...or not adjusted correctly...I better fix that"

Its not too hard to understand if you get flashed a couple of times...it helps the driver to know he needs to do something different...and yea, it does work.

Just like when my Dad had lifted his jeep...he had some bright Halogens...after getting flashed a couple of times, he realised he had to either change the bulbs...or adjust the headlight

your perceiving the general public to be to smart here. Most either dont know how, or dont give a ****.