Yes, that is correct. The "fix" for that on previous years is to replace the high beam halogens with "HID look" bulbs that better matched the color of the low beams.

 

06 lights for your comparison:

 

[QUOTE=camaro194]06 lights for your comparison:

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Time to change out your parking light bulbs!

Seriously though...I bought some PIAA 'hyper white' bulbs (not LEDs, but normal bulbs with blue tint on them) and the color is pretty close to the HID color so from 10 feet or so everything matches. They've been in for a few months and no problems so far!

 

Damn! You beat me to it, there looks like theres a lot of fog today, hopefully tonight it will be foggy, I can do some cool tricks with it.

 

They work fine for me. I dont feel like tearing them apart to change the bulb out. Maybe once they burn out, but for now I'll leave them as they are.

 

I have to rewire my LED CCs, so I am replacing my parking bulbs with laterally-positioned wideband white LED bulbs. Ordered quite a few pairs since I know they are not likely to last too long.

 

Yeah I really wanted to do LEDs but I have had issues with poor reliability with LEDs on my previous car. The parking lights on the old car were much easier to get to so I didn't mind changing them out now and then. On the Z it is a different story...having to go through the fender liner and break your wrist trying to get to those damn things.

 

http://z1auto.com/prodmore.asp?model...or&prodid=2075

if interested

 

thats weird, they have a green tint to them.

 

Thats probably just the look of the headlight, because if you look at bmw's lights when their parked or even driving by them you can notice that when you move around them they change from colors such as blue, green, purple, and white.

 

^ Yes, true projectors have a way of pulling those cool tricks!

 

One thing I found with my 04 Z, a friends Altima, another friends Murano, and reported by loads of users here and elsewhere. Nissan aims for the ground with their HIDs. I was overdriving my lamps at 25mph. The light is bright but it is aimed so low and cuts off so hard, you can't really see anything past two car lengths.

The 06 could be better; but looking at efx's pics, they look pretty low. Check your headlight hight, with the car on flat ground and 8" from the wall, they should be somewhere between 26" and 27.5" off the ground. I don't know if the adjuster is the same on the 06 but this is how we did it with the 03-05 cars. http://www.hypersprite.com/auto/tech-z-003/index.asp
And the best part is, its free

Chris

 

Sorry it took me a while, it hasn't been foggy out so I can't show you the beam. Other than that, check this out!

(click smiley)

 

Do the 06 HID's use the same HID hardware as the 03-05's. Same wattage? I have a 04 with HID and I have access to a set of 06 housings, but no hid hardware. Plug in play or do I need more?

 

yes plug and play

you will only need to switch the bulbs to d2s. which is for projectors lights like the 06 headlights

should be 100 bucks for the philips bulb. check hidplanet.

 

Yep, just need to swith the D2S HID bulbs, check at www.iJDMTOY.com, they have pretty good deal on those bulbs.

 

Ok I have a bit of a long question. I have a 2005 Base model. Obviously no HID. I bought an aftermarket set of HID's for it 5000k. They work OK. The stock housing on the 03-05 Z sucks for HID. We all know that. I recent got a the 06 front bumper put on my car. The body shopped removed my driver side headlight. I guess when they put it back on it got all outta wack. Now when i drive at night the beam shoots to left. Its freakin annoying.

I just wanna upgrade to the 06 style and call it a day. Can I use my existing aftermarket HID with the new style headlight or do I need the factory HID ballast/bulb. I can save a lot of money on just buying the housings.

thanks

 

get em from andy, they are the best price shipped!

 

For those that are interested, we just debuted the final version of this lamp earlier this week.

cheers,
mike / clearcorners.com

 

bump fro some sick headlights!!! I have the G35 coupe 06 version headlamps on my car and they are flawless! the price justifies the amount of time, craftsmanship and any other compenents of assembling such a quality product.