90-91 Honda Accord HeadLights Question

[Vincevox]

Hi guys,

I just waned to ask has anyone converted their lights to HID or LED headlights? And has anyone tried to do a Led turn signal and corner light install? I have tried but the light is not as bright and wanted to get help in order to have it more visible on the road or if there was any recommendations in ways to improve visibility on the road?

Thank you in advance!

~ Vincent

[Jarrett]

These headlights are like any other halogen housing. They are not designed for the additional light output of HIDs. The only way to correctly improve the brightness of your headlights is to perform a projector retrofit on them. That would allow you to run HID bulbs and vastly improve visibility on the road. The cheapest you can get away with doing the upgrade would be around $200 and that's using all questionable or low-end parts. I would recommend going to theretrofitsource.com and purchasing a kit that will come with the projectors, bulbs, ballasts, relay harness, shrouds and any adapters you might need. The Morimoto D2S 4.0 is the hot ticket out right now.

[islandhopper]

These headlights are like any other halogen housing. They are not designed for the additional light output of HIDs. The only way to correctly improve the brightness of your headlights is to perform a projector retrofit on them. That would allow you to run HID bulbs and vastly improve visibility on the road. The cheapest you can get away with doing the upgrade would be around $200 and that's using all questionable or low-end parts. I would recommend going to theretrofitsource.com and purchasing a kit that will come with the projectors, bulbs, ballasts, relay harness, shrouds and any adapters you might need. The Morimoto D2S 4.0 is the hot ticket out right now.

Well said. I second this.

[Raf99]

These headlights are like any other halogen housing. They are not designed for the additional light output of HIDs. The only way to correctly improve the brightness of your headlights is to perform a projector retrofit on them. That would allow you to run HID bulbs and vastly improve visibility on the road. The cheapest you can get away with doing the upgrade would be around $200 and that's using all questionable or low-end parts. I would recommend going to theretrofitsource.com and purchasing a kit that will come with the projectors, bulbs, ballasts, relay harness, shrouds and any adapters you might need. The Morimoto D2S 4.0 is the hot ticket out right now.

Yep. Agreed. Can we just sticky this ?

[7beast]

Good info here and yes should be an automatic sticky

[Vincevox]

Super! Thanks for the info! I'll go ahead and look into the site and try to get one soon! I was wondering also cause my dad bought a eBay hid kit that idk how he connected everything but got it to fit I'll try to get pictures sometime but yeah so I'll try to figure something out! Either than that thank you guys so much h for your help!

[Jarrett]

If you've ever seen a car driving down the road with one HID, it's because they have a crappy plug and play HID kit and a ballast failed. Cheap HID setups have cheap parts that will fail very quickly.

[oni_cb7]

If you've ever seen a car driving down the road with one HID, it's because they have a crappy plug and play HID kit and a ballast failed. Cheap HID setups have cheap parts that will fail very quickly.

DDM Tuning Ballasts purchased in 2010 and the ballasts never failed. Still work actually. Pretty sure the basic DDM set up is as cheap as they come.

Still, never a good idea to put HID's in Halogen housings. Retrofit only.

[7beast]

I ran a cheap set of xentec ebay hid's for every bit of 2years and never had a problem,just my .02 cents

[deevergote]

I swerve at people that blind me with irresponsibly bright HID conversions. Just saying.
I'm getting older, and blinding light has a serious negative effect on my ability to see for a few seconds after it passes. I'd imagine someone 20 or 30 years older is even more adversely affected.

Do it properly, as Jarrett described. Use a quality projector with your HID setup. Otherwise, you are putting the safety of others at risk.

Additionally, if you don't run an auxiliary harness, you run the risk of overloading your wire harness and causing a fire in your engine bay. So there's that.

[oni_cb7]

I swerve at people that blind me with irresponsibly bright HID conversions. Just saying.

Wait... like, on purpose?