2000hours, drive for maybe 2 hours a day tops?

thats 1000 days, or 3 years. though I personally dont even hit 1 hour a day which would be 6 years. I wouldnt worry about them blowing out next week...

 

Unfortunately I use them very rarely. I've seen so many Maximas, G35's and even some Porsches with the HID headlights stolen. I don't what my car be the first Z I've seen with stolen HID's. I'm soo paranoid now, I only use them on highways and dark streets at nights, I'll usually just run the parking lights (I know its dangerous). F%*&king theives down here in S. Florida, any others in the country see this as a major problem?

 

I read some place that turning your HID's off and on greatly reduces the life of the bulb. Can anyone confirm or deny?

 

i didnt know they were supposed to last that long. i normally just turn them on at night but i might start using them more now

 

at night when it is dark. no need for them during the day

 

Its only bad if u turn it on and off several times real fast.

 

wait, can anyone else confirm that if you leave your lights on, they turn off automatically after 5 minutes?

 

They do turn off automatically... it's a battery save feature.

I also read turning them on and off uneccesarily (wow i can't spell that word) reduces the life of the bulbs too

 

Hey,

Did you all notice that the lights aren't that blue when they are new?

At first, they're bright white, with a hint of yellow.

The reason I noted the difference was when I parked my 05 Z beside my friend's 03 Z. Quite a difference, his lights were soooo much more blue!

I read that the lights have to 'burn-in' about 100hours before they reach their optimal colour.

Any thoughts?

 

I don't know about this, but my G35coupe HID's are blue when I turn them on, then they become white.

 

All hid bulbs have a colorshift. The older the hid bulb gets the bluer it becomes. We have philips bulbs which break in much faster than osram bulbs (bmw). Once your hid bulbs colorshift they will be the same color as your friends.

 

Mine are changing slowly.....I've had them on for roughly 20 hours or so....but, they do seem to be getting bluer!

 

So whats the consensus? Good to run em? Bad?


Also, when they blow out, its not a warantee item im assuming lol

 

In Sweden they turn on automaticly since we have to have them turned on all the time, day and night by law.

 

After several near misses by soccer moms in there SUV's on there cell phones, I now drive with my HID's all the time. The car can be very hard to see from other cars. I found this out while driving my GMC Yukon. A 350Z came up on my blind side with no headlights on and I almost started to move over without ever seeing him there.. Running them all the time is a very small price to pay

Steve (k2we) Dobbs Ferry, NY 28,575 miles since Sept 17,2002

 

Has anyone blown any yet? ANd if so how many miles? ANy 30k+ mile people with factory bulbs still in?

 

wait, i'm confuse.... I thought the High Intensity Discharge were the bulbs and they don't look blue. I thought the xeons were plasma so they work by charing gas, thus they turn blue. Am I wrong? My friend's Z doesn't have the factory blue lights, so he got blue bulbs. I have the factory blue lights, what do I have, HID or Zeons?

 

What model Z do you have? Only Base model came with non HID lights. I think HIDs involve much more than better bulbs.

 

HID uses xenon gas to emit light. Xenon and HID wording are used interchangeably.

HID/Xenon lighting requires a ballast and ignitor for the lights to work. You need high voltage potential for it to work, which the battery cannot supply.

 

why is it that the wanna-be h.i.d. lights you see in car magazine for $20-$50 say they are really h.i.d. lights??