Today one of my head lights went out and i cant decide wether or not if i want to just buy some silverstars or if i want to go ahead and get some HID's. What do you guys think?

 

I love my HID: I can't imaging owning another vehicle without them. Between the car and truck I have 8 HID bulbs!

 

hids, no doubt! i have 8000Ks in my 05 and i love them!! except on rainy days when im behind white or silver vehicles.. haha

 

Oh you mean when you are also blinding everyone else?

 

go HID's

i loved em in stock housings, aimed correctly, they werent too bad. but after getting projectors, well, i could never go back to stock housings lol

 

i had more people flash me when i had silverstars, besides my headlights are aimed down a tad so i really only blind people in low cars.

 

silverstars FTMFW. those ebay HID kits look lame to me.

 

HID Going to get another set for my fogs from my buddy for $65 buck.
Dont really like the hids in the rain.

 

If you don't care about blinding people go with HIDs

I'm very happy with my silverstars

 

I thought you had HIDs Trent? You ditch them or what?

 

Yeah I took them off about a month ago for some silverstars. The color and brightness was cool for a while but I got tired of being like all those ricers out there.

 

LOL. I have the 6000k HIDs in mine and its one of those mods that if I could go back I would've never bought. The light output is nice but I hate the bluish color. It feels ricerish like you said lol. I would put the stock lights back in but I hardly ever drive the ranger at night now anyways. Maybe when I'm not lazy I'll do it.

 

Ill run mine till I get pulled over, then switch to silverstars.

 

Hmm... I might do HID's and hold off on the system i was going to get for a little while. OR i might just get the silverstars now and get the system like next weekend or so.

 

i got the cheap-o made ebay ones for 60 bucks and they are some light out putting mother effers....better deal that silverstars to me...

 

Why is this concept so hard for people to understand. If you properly aim you headlights, you won't be blinding anyone. HID's do not blind people. Improperly aimed headlights blind people. It doesn't matter what bulbs or systems you use.

 

+1

I never get flashed with my HIDs. Why spend all that money on another pair of halogen bulbs?

 

I had mine properly aimed and I still had people complain about them. When you can light up the highway signs that are 20 feet in the air you have glare problems.

 

Aiming the lights does nothing to change the design of the reflector, which was designed to work with halogen bulbs. Hids in a reflector are dispersing a lot of light, all around. The projectors most factory hids come with direct that light to where its not burning oncoming drivers retinas.

 

I have seen plenty of hids properly aimed that still scatter a ton of light. It has nothing to do with the amount of light, just where it puts it.
I have never been flashed with silverstars but my heads and fogs are both aimed properly. My headlights have a very clean cutoff with no scatter.
Then again to disagree with you is pointless, because your way is the only way.

 

Coming from someone who is lower to the ground then pretty much everyone here...

1. Silverstars blind me...
2. HIDs(even with projectors) blind me...
3. Even fog lights blind me...

FYI...Halogens have glare as well...

So...I have HIDs...I have amazing cutoff and not a lot of glare. And this is out of the factory OEM housing on the GT.

 

Someone with both hids and silverstars needs to take comparison shots. Or park hid and star equipped rangers with oem headlights side by side and compare.

Aim them the same and use the same settings on the camera.

Also would be nice to see it done with wet ground as that seems to intensify the glariness.

 

I can do that tonight, I have some good pics of mine with HIDs and I'll just look up the settings in the EXIF data

 

just aim your headlights to make your choice of bulbs work well without running risk of blinding oncomming traffic.. duh.

 

I also have no problem in the wet. My Silverstars, when in the rain at night, seemed to disappear in the wet. My 6000k HIDs make it easy to see in the rain.