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Originally Posted by prince85  Are u sure Maggie??? |
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Originally Posted by akshay1234 prince you right. philips do make hids kits. |
At the thought of having posted obsolete data, I checked thru the various international Philips automotive lighting websites and found the following links. Philips doesnt mention "HID Kit" as any of their currently available commercial products:
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Philips United States: I draw your attention to this quote from this site:
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NOTE : Xenon HID bulbs can only be used in vehicles that have HID lighting systems. They cannot be used as an upgrade in conventional headlights.
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. That quote will not be given by a manufacturer of an entire HID kit.
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Philips Australia: Please go thru their HID product listed here. The HID products listed here are HID bulbs - which reiterates the "Point number four" in my earlier post. The quoted description of this HID product:
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Xenon HID bulb for quality replacement
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. Btw - also to be noted is the genuine Philips packaging on that product for future reference.
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Philips UK: The entire listing of their Xenon products. All bulbs.
The following conclusions can be reached:
1. Philips does not sell entire "HID kits" at the time their above webpages were browsed i.e., as of 5-03-2008, 11:00 pm
2. Philips legally sells their HID bulbs to end-users.
3. The other possibility is that Philips have setup an Asia-specific "HID kits" manufacturing facility. If this possibility is to be true, so would Microsoft make "legally free" versions of their applications only for Asia, whereas they charge for the same applications worldwide.
As regards to the Philips systems spotted and advertised, it is possible that individual legally available Philips HID components - bulbs, ballasts etc. are packaged together and sold as an integrated kit by operations independant of any Philips factory. But then again, there is no way of ascertaining beyond the shadow of a doubt that these "Philips" HID components in that kit were actually manufactured by Philips.