I Installed my HID Light kit for my 4runner front end on my pickup and took it for a spin, and notice people high beaming me, which i assume i was blinding them with my HID, bare in mind, i dont have projecters, but my question is that id it possible to install projectors in my 4runner headlights? I just feel bad blinding people and dont really want to get a ticket lol any suggestion in what to do?

 

lower the height of your headlights! have like a big card board or on you garage door and adjust it from the truck being like 5 feet away from the cardboard or garage door(at night is better) and have like the top of the beam like 2.5 feet high, i forget but you can google it!

 

Theyre pretty easy to adjust it should have a screw or something to lower them.

 

I had the hid conversion on my miata if they flashed me I'd flash them back you can't get a ticket most Lexus bmw Mercedes and nicer gm cars have hids already

 

i tried adjusting but it doesnt seem to work, from what i'ved heard is that the only way no to blind people is projectors but i never seen projectors on a 92-95 4runner front end...is it even possible of puting projectors on those headlights?

 

You can get a headlight adjuster tool from most auto parts houses!

 

now im thinking maybe i hook them wrong like high beam = low beam and low beam = high beam hrm... theres three wires which i'm assuming one for lows and the other for highs but whats the third one? The power? anybody has the color definition when wiring 89-94 toyota pickups with 92-95 4runner 9004, which color goes with which..?

 

yes you can install projectors, the challenging part will be making or getting clear lenses..So the 4runner bulb is 9004? you can buy a "casper shield" which block all the glare but i've only seen them for H4 bulbs..when i had my kit on my truck i used the shields, kept the output where it need to be..on the road

and i agree the glare is soooooo annoying.......best bet would be projectors make use of all the light power and put it where it needs to be! I'm in process of doing my own, but on regular ol 7x6 headlights

 

If you look at any car with factory HID's, every single one them has projectors.

Halogen lights produce light by heating up a metal filament, just like the first light bulb ever made by Thomas Edison.

HID lights use a tube of high pressure gas instead of a metal fillament, The entire gas tube lights up and produces a much brighter, more spread out light then a traditional halogen bulb.

A halogen lamp housings main objective is to spread out the light, when you put a HID light in a halogen lamp it spreads the already way brighter light all over the place, including all the street signs and opposing traffic

A properly designed projector will give you a sharp defined cut off line so you can properly aim your headlights without blinding people.

 

trap, THANK YOU!!!

 

you're welcome.

another couple things about aftermarket HID's. Dual filament bulbs like 9004s usually have a regular incandescent high beam bulb attached to it. So you literally have a HID low beam bulb with a ugly normal incandescent light bulb fused to the top.

They also make some kits for other bulbs that use a hid bulb with a little actuator in the base of the bulb that changes the angle of the tube so you have hid high and low beam.

Factory HID's either have actuators built into the lamp housings, or they use another lamp for the high beam

 

Why did you swap it out? Running HIDs you not really gaining much especially when you switch colors and whatnot, you start to lose visiable light and its for show.

Also you can piece together your own projectors. If you look at a car with stock HIDs, you going notice on the top of the headlight beam it will cut off and there will be a straight line, the projector cuts it right there. The regular housings that you used to throw HID bulbs into doesnt have that same cut, thats why lights all over the place

 

That isn't true that every car with factory HID comes with projector headlights. My imported factory Corolla Altis HID headlight/ Lexus ES 300/330 and IS300 didn't have projectors. The reflector of the housing is designed differently and they often use D2S/D2R bulbs w/ casper shield to reduce the glare

 

Hella lens will focus the beam better
The HID kit & bulbs ( HIGH/LOW) I got from DDM along with these lens seem fine ,the beam is where it should be !

 

Gary can post a pic of your set up?

 

the reason you can't have HID's on high beams is that it takes a while to warm up.


like stated earlier, they use an actuator that moves the shield to allow a "high beam" function. which is the proper HID highbeam since it's already on.

but most cars generally have the HID projector low beam seperate from high's now.


some cars have bi-xenon projectors.... (F430) oh well, just play around with soem stuff

 

+1....the cars that dont have projectors use a D2R bulb..the bulb has a black band on it to block glare, and of course the housing is designed for it

doesnt matter what headlights you have, if they are not designed for HIDs your output is gonna suck and you WILL have glare, unless you do a proper retrofit

 

4300k is the optimal color temp for best output anything really over 5k you loose output and like you said its just for color/show

 

My brother retrofitted hid projectors with the moving flap for highbeam into his GSXR. Friggin awesome. I was going to do it on the yota but it won't work because the lense is not smooth. So I was just going to get an hid conversion from DDM or something. My factory lights are horrible. Maybe if I put silverstar bulbs it would be better but they cost as much as HID's.

 

^look up phillips extreme power..probably the best halogen bulb out there