Anyone have hyper white or Hid kit for their boxster?
 

Hi i'm looking to get a set of hyper white bulbs or an hid kit for my boxster. Not sure which way to go an Hid kit is more expensive but i'm not sure why? Is it because the light is more intense than the stock lights? I was also thinking of just getting a pair of bulbs to switch out the headlights with some hyper white bulbs. I have a glacier white boxster and want to make it look more clean with some hyper white bulbs.

Anyone have any pictures or videos of their cars with hyper whites or even like a mild blue or and hid kit?

I just installed a HID kit from xenon experts, they had it on sale for $70. Well worth the effort and money in my opinion and it wont melt your headlights as higher wattage bulbs often do.
Its not as good as litronic headlights, but night visibility is greatly improved.
No affiliation. http://www.xenonexpert.com/ddm_kit_sale.html
I went with 35 watt 6000k kit.
I will post a pic once i get back in town.

Nice i like the white with blue hue. Can i ask which bulbs you got? they have a list from h1-h13 and other numbers. it says 35w is oem wattage i'm not sure what the 6000 k means but looks really good.

also was the installation difficult? Did you have to drill anything or cut and splice any wires? Are there any negative effects from doing this that you noticed? I just found out that the 35w runs cooler than the stock lamps so it lasts longer is this true?

I'm awaiting pics too hehe i'd like to see what it looks like on a boxster. :cheers:

Somebody correct me if Im wrong.
35 watt is street legal, 55 isnt.
4300, 5000, 6000 etc. all refer to the Kelvin Temperature, thus affect the color of the light from yellow-white-blue-purple etc.
As temp increases, light intensity drops thus I wouldn't go higher than 6000K (personal choise, since I do alot of night/bad weather driving and visibility is more important for me than looks).
Just search "HID" on this forum and you will come across several HID retrofit examples.
Some kits will require drilling a hole on the headlight back cover (dont worry, kit comes with a gromet and long enough wires), but I managed to squize mine in without any modifications. It is not much harder that replacing burned out bulb, plug n play.
Hope it helps.

I think i'm just going to go with the ones that you got. $70 is not a bad deal and i like the color that it makes from the website, when you post pics i can see what it looks like on the boxster. You metioned you squeezed yours in, what do u mean by that? You squeezed the wires through somewhere? thanks for the info


Also if i just want to change the low beam bulbs how many sets would i need? Just the 1 set right?

What bulb type did you go with?

I got the h7 bulbs and the 6000k 35w hid kit

I managed to squize ballast and igniter within the headlight housing (under back cover).
Here are the pictures to compare stock halogen to 6000k Hid.
Although light patterns look different - its normal due to safety reasons and not due to messed up headlights. I did before and after and patterns are the same, just brighter.
Also, camera was in the automatic mode, so the color is not exactly spot on, but you can clearly see the difference it made. yep, its h7 and you only need one set for low-beam installation. High beams will stay functional. btw, low beam is the top bulb.
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NICE thanks man! I got em yesterday and i put em in today. I will post some pics in a little bit they look rad. We did a pamper day for the boxster we changed fuel filter, spark plugs and did the HIDs after. You were right it was a very simple install and the lights look great. The only difficult part was trying to find a socket that fit the little hole to pop the headlight off. We used a deep socket 4mm and it worked perfect. We just shoved all the extra parts in the headlight assembly and then closed the backside of it.

I'll post pics in a few but yea i might even write up a diy for it. For this particular one i guess

Much brighter on the road now?. I find my stock lowbeams a tad weak for some of the country driving I do. I'd hate to hit a deer, the car doesn't have enough trunk space for all that venison ;)

YEa it's quite a difference. I'm gonna go out and take some pics in a few and i'll upload them tonight. I'm bout to go out for the night though so i guess u'll see it tomorow :-p

:cheers: great easy little mod and makes a big difference in looks and visibility. Looks real clean on a glacier white boxster

Here are the pics as promised. Also about the visibility it's true that you can see more cause the light shines out more but the only thing is that the light is slightly blue so it's a little darker than the nasty stock yellow ones.

I wanted to take more pics at different locations but we just took some in front of our house and our friends place. I think they look amazing really makes it look clean and for a great price too. $70 not too bad at all for such an amazing difference in looks.

Here are the pics

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You can tell from some of the pictures that's it's slightly blue from certain angles. It's just all around awesomeness i'm very pleased with it

Got mine on order. Should be here by Wednesday! Thanks for the pics! Can't wait! :dance:

Like al83 said you can just shove the ballast and everything into the head light assembly once you get everything hooked up and close the plate behind it. I'll write a diy for it a little later but now gotta get to work. It's really easy to do it only took me a while cause i was making it more difficult than it was. Don't over think it too much it's much easier than you think it will be at least it was that way for me.

ok here's a quick step by step

1.) remove the carpeting on the sides of the front trunk. You should see a small round plug looking thing on both sides go ahead and remove that it should pop right out.

2.) there is a small nut driver looking thing in there that you have to use a very small deep socket to turn. I used a 4mm deep socket (regular socket won't worry because the socket is too thick for the small hole) When you turn it, it will pop the entire headlight housing off. This is because there is a small latch looking thing underneath it that pulls the headlight out of the socket that it's attached too.

3.) On the back of the head light there is a cover with a tab ont he top side of it find this and push down and it comes right off.

4.) The bulb that you want to change is the top bulb. There is a little metal clip that holds the bulb in remove this and take the bulb out of the housing.

5.) Once the bulb is removed from the housing you can disconnect the bulb connectors and remove the bulb completely. It's connected to the yellow and brown wires that i believe go to the battery, as a live wire and a ground.

6.) Now take your new bulbs take off the plastic protective casing and put them in the housing of your head lights. You should be able to make the plastic piece that is on the bulb and the housing fit snug. I also put the metal clip back on half of the bulb to make sure that it sits tight.

7.) Now the part that i thought was tricky. You kit comes with a 35w Ballast, you want to connect it all up so that everything is connected together. The only part that you have to connect to the original head light assembly are the red and black wires that go into the former yellow and brown wires that the last bulb was connected to

8.) Then connect the bulb connectors to the ballast connectors male/female to female/male

9.) There is another connector that you connect together as well male/female i think both comes off the ballast but i'm not 100% sure i don't remember. If you connected everything up you're good to go. Make sure that the connections from the bulbs are going to the ballast and that's really all you need.

10.) put everything back and your set.

Yellow Bulbs?
 

I have litronics in my 2000 S and I put ultra yellow bulbs in my high beam and fog. The high beam gives a Lemans look at night and makes for much better contrast when driving a high speed. I also replaced my front city lights with white LED which look better and last longer than the standard bulbs. ;)

the cheapest HID slim kits can be found on DDM site. (google DDM HID or something like that)
they were 50 bux shipped.
have those on my bike and they are awesome.

Thanks for the write up BigBorian! :cheers: I'm installing mine today!

Wow! What an amazing difference. Best cheap mod I've done to my boxster. :dance:

Looks nice eh!? take some pics and post i wanna see. When my wife drives the boxster and i'm next to her she turns the whole left side of the road blue haha

The write up help u out?

totally helped. I pretty much ignored the instructions that came with. Installation was easy and I did it all in about half an hour. If I had to do it again it would probably take me ten minutes now that I know what I'm doing.

Do you guys find the the 6000k bulbs to be too blue? I have a pair of 6500's in my Lexus GX470 and on the rare occasions when I've driven in front of the car, the lights look like a rice mobile. When driving the car though, they look awesome. I ended up going back to 4300k.

I'm tempted to go with the 5000k for the Boxster.

I think it looks real clean. They do light up the street a blueish color but from right behind you they are white and very clear and clean

Is anybody getting any error messages with this kit?

I installed mine about a month ago while waiting for new AOS to show up, so car has sat for a few weeks. When I started it up with battery half dead and turned headlights on - the battery light and oil pressure lights turned on, but went away when I restarted the car.
the battery charged up and I never had another problem.

I was also debating between 5000 and 6000k.
yes, many cars have blue colored headlights this days; HIDs, cheap ebay ones, sylvania silver stars (which arent bad actually), but I don't think 6000k looks cheap.
So unless you are planing on installing purple 13000k HIDs, you should be good.

hope it helps n post some pics of 5000k

Update on my HID install. So it's been going good for a little while but 2 nights ago i noticed that when i went over bumps the light would flicker a little bit like the bulb was not snug in the socket. I decided to check it out and it turns out the bulb had melted the little plastic casing that it came with and was now just freely bouncing around.

What i did was I just took some needle nose pliers and cut the melted plastic off so that i just had the bulb and then put that into the bulb housing of the headlight. Then i took the original wire thing that keeps the bulb tight on the back of the bulb assembly and manipulated it to secure the bulb in place. It's not very snug in the bulb housing socket of the headlight.

When we drove around with it we noticed an IMMEDIATE difference. It's REALLY bright and the light profects VERY far. Almost to the point of this might be borderline illegal. When we drive it lights up the entire road on the 3 lane highway. If we are all the way in the left lane the lights can light up and exit sign all the way to the right. Is this legal? Anyways visibility is amazing we can see everything coming from a mile away, cops did see the lights but they did not pull us over so i'm guessing they're fine?

We tried the highbeams and it made little difference. The only real difference is that the high beams are yellow and it goes just a little above where the white lights end. I see the same kind of lights on hummers and trucks though and they are high up and right in my rearview where as we are low to the ground. Anyone know what the legal limitations are?

Just wanted to update on the hid's. They are working great been a couple months now and the road lights up nice and bright and the lights look amazing. However i did run into the problem of the HID bulbs melting the clear plastic piece on the housing piece. I fixed this by going into it again and just ripping out the clear plastic piece out on the bulb housing piece. Just take some needle nose pliers or even just regular pliers and break that piece off. That way you can just place the bulbs into the housing and place the metal clips on the back nice and tight into the bulb housing.

I'm just wondering if anyone has tried the new SMD LED H7 bulbs?

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Xenon-HID-White-SMD-Xenon-LED-H7-HeadLight-Light-Bulbs_W0QQitemZ280445505037QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMoto rs_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item414bdace0d

Bought mine, they are shipping and should have them by saturday :)

i got the 35W, 5000K H7.
I'd rather have them a bit whiter, not crazy about the 'blue hue'.

Quick update on this HID kit.

Installation was flawless, very easy.
And result seems pretty good:
Before
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After
http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/4215/20101105186.jpg

Bulb are 35W, 5000K.
All for $80 with shipping :dance: