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I have a mixed opinion of them so far. The install wasn't hard. The longest part was deciding where to mount the ballasts.
I was driving at dusk and turned on my lights. The few cars around me that had lights on clearly had a pool of light in front of their cars. I couldn't tell mine were on by looking at the road. I could see the reflection in the car ahead of me though and their license plate was lit up super bright reflecting my headlights. As it got darker, they lit up the road though. I have 5000K bulbs which are supposed to be bright white, but I think are still fairly bluish. (Maybe just compared to the more yellowish stock halogens though.)
In town where there are streetlights, they didn't seem to light the road much, but all the signs reflected very brightly. In the country, they cast a very wide beam off both sides of the road (in addition to in front of me of course). They really seemed to light up the trees on the right side too. There was a wide stripe of shadow from the cut-off and the light was much dimmer above it. I'm guessing that's from the squirrel finder that reflects a small portion of the beam up to light up signs. Generally out in the sticks, I will have my high beams on anyway though.
One other thing that is probably skewing my opinion is that I always had my fogs on with the stock bulbs. That kept the area directly in front of the xB very bright. Using the HID's I had the fogs off. I imagine the HID's will grow on me.
I was driving at dusk and turned on my lights. The few cars around me that had lights on clearly had a pool of light in front of their cars. I couldn't tell mine were on by looking at the road. I could see the reflection in the car ahead of me though and their license plate was lit up super bright reflecting my headlights. As it got darker, they lit up the road though. I have 5000K bulbs which are supposed to be bright white, but I think are still fairly bluish. (Maybe just compared to the more yellowish stock halogens though.)
In town where there are streetlights, they didn't seem to light the road much, but all the signs reflected very brightly. In the country, they cast a very wide beam off both sides of the road (in addition to in front of me of course). They really seemed to light up the trees on the right side too. There was a wide stripe of shadow from the cut-off and the light was much dimmer above it. I'm guessing that's from the squirrel finder that reflects a small portion of the beam up to light up signs. Generally out in the sticks, I will have my high beams on anyway though.
One other thing that is probably skewing my opinion is that I always had my fogs on with the stock bulbs. That kept the area directly in front of the xB very bright. Using the HID's I had the fogs off. I imagine the HID's will grow on me.
