HID Question

[lowerider4]

What HID kit would you recomend for an 05 legacy 2.5i limited?? There are soo many out there that I found I just can't seem to choose. Anything would help. I'm looking to do the install myself so I am looking for something that isn't too hard to install.

[power_getter]

If you don't want to do a retrofit, then the best way to go is OEM setup:

 

For example:

 

- Denso OR Hella D2S ballast

- Philips D2S bulbs

- H7 to D2S adapter to fit D2S bulb into stock Legacy projector. (http://www.hidplanet.com/H72D2.html)

[Legasee07]

in color wise i get 5000K, question the 05 came with stock Ds2? i have an 07 but thier not DS2

 

i bought the mcclouch (sp) kit, check on ebay thier pretty cheep now n days. their plug and play. Takes about 20 mins total to do

[power_getter]

in color wise i get 5000K, question the 05 came with stock Ds2? i have an 07 but thier not DS2

 

i bought the mcclouch (sp) kit, check on ebay thier pretty cheep now n days. their plug and play. Takes about 20 mins total to do

 

cheap Hid kit

[Evilleg]

There are many diff brands hids out there, are they install in same way?

i just bought a 6k H7 MKS kit from Ebay.

[lowerider4]

thanks for the insight

[jazzymt]

Personally, I would stay away from HID's altogether. A complete OEM retrofit will probably be fairly good, but for 1/5th the price & 1/20th the effort - you can just put in Osram 65W Rally bulbs & have 9/10ths the benefit of OEM HIDs, and beat a retrofit kit entirely.

[PhilT]

What he said...

 

Honestly, the stock projectors are pretty damn good as they are.

 

But with HID in the projector housings they are sooooo much better

[BigT]

Beware of the cheap stuff. I bought a bargain brand and I'm not too happy. I have lots of flickering and my fogs only work in the rain Customer service also lacks something to be desired. I'd reccoment going to a local shop. If it breaks at least they'll fix it.

[lowerider4]

I'm thinking of going to Apexcone. They seem to be pretty good and that make them in the H7 bulb so I wouldn't have to do any reto fitting of the lamp.

[urs1ne]

I was going to do the full projector retrofit but after considering the effort involved and the ease of installing a kit I went with the Apexcone 50watt racing setup in 6000k. It was just what I wanted, considerably more light on the road, headlights stand out but in a good way because of their blue hue, and they were a breeze to install, the hardest part was finding a place to mount the ballasts.

 

All in all, I would do this again and recommend it to anyone that wants something cheap and plug and play. It may not be as bright as my BMWs xenons but I feel like I got a great setup for the price.

[MiniStiGuy]

Retro FTW..... I just did mine this past weekend and its 1,000 times better output then the stock projector's will ever have. I had a kit before and it was sufficently better then stock but an actual OEM setup is 1,000 times better.

 

Watch out for my thread this weekend on the retro with pics.

[edkwon]

I installed the mccullough 4600K kit upon recommendation from a fellow legacy owner with the same kit, who has had it in his car for a while and has worked great. since mine have only been in recently, i'lll have to wait several months to give a long term report.

 

Ed

[MiniStiGuy]

rx swap is done check it out.

http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1036462#post1036462