HID Ballast advice needed

lamsik · Sep 5th, 2007, 08:09 PM

hi,

i'm new to this forum, i have a 99.5 pathfinder se. i was thinking about doing a hid conversion which would requiring replacing the factory lights.

i decided to do this after seeing a 2002 qx with hid, which was very impressive. just curious if anyone on this forum has done it on a pathfinder.

could anyone offer any suggestions to where i should start and the difficulties of this project?

i understand that i must buy a ballast and hid lights. is there a popular conversion out on the market?

thanks,

lamsik

**88pathoffroad** · Sep 8th, 2007, 01:35 AM

There are lots of them on Ebay. Some even have both low AND high beams. Basic HID's are low beam only IIRC. There's been some debate on how HID's work in a factory light housing as well, they weren't designed for HID use so they calibrated and designed around halogen bulbs, which may or may not be in the same exact position inside the housing as an HID bulb, which is slightly different.

In other words, changing the halogen bulb to a HID bulb may throw the focus of the headlight beams off. If it's off to the top side you may blind people at night and not be able to do anything about it.

I've never installed a kit though, so this is words from someone else's mouth, not mine.

smj999smj · Sep 9th, 2007, 03:05 AM

From those conversions I've seen, they aren't any brighter than the Silvania Silverstar Ultra bulbs that plug right in and cost a fraction of the price and effort.