HID lights on cars last a lot longer than conventional halogen bulbs, does the same hold true on trucks?. Curious because I just got a truck with HIDS.
HID Equipped trucks
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by Lonewolf2000, Sep 7, 2018.
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4 years on the original pair that came with my kit!
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Carry extra bulb for low and high beam and you will never need to replace original.
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Seems they do last just as long as in cars.
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My 17' Cascadia came with HID headlamps. It looks like a module of sorts in there as apposed to a bulb that you can easily change. I can only assume it takes a shop to do it. At least I think they're HID, is Xenon the same as HID?
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Are you sure they aren't the trucklite led. I don't recall Cascadia coming out with hid.
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HID is what I'm told they are. I'm no techy on this stuff so I couldn't attest to what I've been told by a tech. For what it's worth, 506,000 miles exactly on these bulbs and still getting high beam flashes by oncoming traffic when their dimmed, still original.
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Wow, pissing people off for the last 506,000 miles huh.
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if they look like this, they are the truck lite led. many people mistakingly call led hid. these lights are blinding as hell because they glare rather than have a nice cutoff...
this is the output low beam of that light..... not very nice for oncoming drivers.
this is the output from a proper bixenon hid projector that won't blind others.
that is unless you just have a plug and play aftermarket hid kit in your reflector housing, which would put out a horrible glare like this and blind everyone in its path......
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I hate mis aimed, and poorly designed lights, especially on rainy nights.
About all you can do is flash them to show your displeasure. Also, some won't dim their lights, maybe night blind. I knew one driver with blood sugar issues who was that way. The night driving glasses do help with all of that, but I don't like wearing them over prescription glassesTurkeyCreekJackJohnson, DSK333 and snowman_w900 Thank this.
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