Originally Posted by sajanjosepht

I think every member should start reading a thread from the 1st page to get detailed info and the pros and cons too. So that, can avoid repeating the same story all the time.

Originally Posted by sajjt

Jai, u need to read these forums at least for the HID forums fully, surely u'll get an overall awareness in these and I promise u its worth to read.

Originally Posted by sajjt

There are lot of brands available, mostly chinese are cheaper and the quality? No questions? In my case, So far so good, am using an HID kit on my car for the past 2 years and no issues, and my bike is running on a bixenon HID for the last 3 months. but there are cases on the other side too. reputed brands are Philips,Osram are very very expensive and comes in pairs for 4 wheels not meant for bikes to my knowledge.

Originally Posted by sajjt

How to use the HID and all at ur discretions as there are options with HID with Halogen combinations, HID for both H/L , HID for single beam and two HID bulb for H/L etc. Since ur bike is a full DC one there will not be any batt drain issues, I would suggest u to go in for a bixenons (H/L with a single HID) as this will be more lasting than the others anyway. But if u r a city commuter, its better to go for a HID+Halo combi will save u from cops by switching it to halo when u r asked for a stop. If u are going for HID Low beam and Halo High beam(thatz the std) u'll''ve the pass option provided ur pass switch will enable the high beam, there are bikes with passs swtich but the it'll change with the settings with the H/L switch.

This is HID+Halo Combi
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This one is Bixenon telescopic
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Keep in mind that frequent switching will considerably reduce the bulb life even though its life span is rated better than the nornal halogens. Thats why I suggested the bixenons (bit expensive than the others), where bulb is always on only the solenoid is making the bulb to act as H/L, thus the frequent switching is avoided.

Hope u r clear about ur doubts.

Originally Posted by rahulya007

Hi,
I have recently fit a Bi-Xenon H4 4300K kit in my new WagonR. The wiring harness has a wire to be directly connected to Battery. My car was parked for almost a week and yesterday, when I had to go out and tried unlocking the car using the remote, it didn't. Then checked the battery voltage and was surprised to find it down to 0.03V

Does the HID kit consume such a huge amount of current to down the battery to such an extent ? Or is this a battery problem ? Earlier too my car was parked during the weekdays and only used on weekend but I had not faced any such issues in the previous weeks after installing the HID kit. Have you noticed such a thing in your car ?



Regards,
Rahul K

Originally Posted by thefastestindian

Never. I'm using HID in both my car and bike since close to 2 years. Never had this kind of an issue. HID wont consume power unless you turn them on. A minor amount of power might be used but not much. not sure about the last line though.

Originally Posted by Invincible

The excitement was short lived because after few days, the light started to flicker and go off after 10-15 min ride. Later I found the light was not a problem but the battery was. The new battery was almost dead after the light went off...!.