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Originally Posted by amalji
(Post 4344952)
I guess, they are made in India now. I hope, quality is not compromised. |
Originally Posted by Turbanator
(Post 4345078)
BMW and now many others have electric parking/ Hold functions, so when you push the brake, the car goes onto Auto Hold function and you can remove your foot from the brake pedal. The car will move ahead when you press the accelerator. |
Originally Posted by AShubrah
(Post 4345584)
Will a DBH3 bulb fit into the HB3 socket of the high beam? Im planning on going the HID route but Im confused between the Osram DHB3 6000K HID Conversation Kit Generation 2 & the Osram DHB3 Xenon 6000K Eco HID Conversation Kit. Also, even though its been discussed a million times on the forum, can someone just give me a solid point to choose 4300K over 6000K? |
Originally Posted by AShubrah
(Post 4345584)
Will a DBH3 bulb fit into the HB3 socket of the high beam? Also, even though it’s been discussed a million times on the forum, can someone just give me a solid point to choose 4300K over 6000K? |
Originally Posted by Behemoth
(Post 4345621)
I would suggest the 4200K bulb as the visibility is better due to balanced white light primary components (RGB) whereas in 6000K the blue component is higher. The Gen 2 version of the kit has higher light output than the Gen 1 kit. |
Originally Posted by Sankar
(Post 4345672)
Choose the 4300K, it will be better for vision. If you do want to go for HID in your existing headlight ideally use an HB3R HID bulb it will be less glaring than HB3 HID. |
Originally Posted by Sankar
(Post 4345672)
I'm using a HIR1 bulb instead of the stock HB3 since more than an year, it is better than the stock HB3 and even extremevision HB3. |
Originally Posted by AShubrah
(Post 4345692)
Good sir, care to enlighten me with what an HIR1 bulb is? stupid: |
The HIR bulbs are not some tinted or over-wattage version of 9005 or 9006, but rather employ a relatively new technology called HIR, Halogen Infrared. The mechanical dimensions of the bulb are all virtually identical to the 9005 or 9006, but the bulb glass is spherical instead of tubular, with the sphere centered around the filament. There is a "Durable IR Reflective" coating on the spherical glass. Infrared = heat, so the coating causes heat to be reflected back to the filament at the center of the sphere. This causes the filament to become much hotter (producing more light) than it can by passing electricity through it, *without* the shorter life or greater heat production that comes with over-wattage bulbs (to say nothing of over-wattage bulbs' incompatibility with stock wiring.) Here's the comparison: Hi Beam stock: 9005, 12.8V, 65W, 1700 lumens, 320 hours / Hi Beam ... HIR1(9011), 12.8V, 65W, 2530 lumens, 400 hours |
These HIR bulbs are a unique product, the only bulbs available that use the research technology that General Electric patented in 2000 (patent number 6,087,775). It was GE's goal to create a bulb that produced 75% of the light output of HID headlights at 25% of the cost. GE sells HIR bulbs for residential lighting and specialized projectors, but decided to stay out of the automotive market and licensed this technology to a division of Toshiba. In fact, Toshiba and GE are among the few companies in the world with the expertise to engineer and build this product. These bulbs attain light levels 75% to 110% brighter than stock as a result of an engineering process that deposits multiple, yet almost invisible, layers of semi-reflective coating on the surface of a specially shaped quartz bulb. This coating ( a titania/silica, zinc oxide/silica, zirconia/silica, silicon nitride/silica, and titania/magnesium fluoride tantalam/silica multi-layer dielectric, according to the patent) reflects a portion of the infrared energy emitted by the filament back onto the filament, causing it to glow brighter and emit more light from the uncoated forward portion of the bulb. Although the filament gets hotter, the glass does not. IT GENERATES NO MORE HEAT THAN A REGULAR HALOGEN BULB, AND IT DRAWS THE SAME WATTAGE AND AMPERAGE AS THE STOCK 9006 BULB IT REPLACES |
Originally Posted by geotracks
(Post 4345554)
The auto start/stop feature also is nice to have. Of course I need remember to turn off the AC each time the vehicle auto stops. |
Originally Posted by Sankar
(Post 4345700)
The HIR bulbs are not some tinted or over-wattage version of 9005 or 9006, but rather employ a relatively new technology called HIR, Halogen Infrared. |
Originally Posted by amalji
(Post 4345703)
Why would you do that ? I never touch the AC buttons when auto stop/start works. |
Originally Posted by AShubrah
(Post 4345707)
I never knew something like this even existed. :Shockked: Anyhow, where’d you get your HIR bulbs from? |
Originally Posted by Sankar
(Post 4345277)
Auto stop start does help in saving fuel if that is what the user wants*. It has been tested and proven to work, 5th Gear also did the test on one of their episodes |
Originally Posted by geotracks
(Post 4342255)
However, in city or suburb stop & go traffic it may use up the starter life more than the value of the fuel the feature saves. |
Originally Posted by geotracks
(Post 4345864)
I have been given to understand over the years by different auto service technicians & service managers that before turning off any vehicle, switch off the AC. That way the next time one re-starts a vehicle, the AC pump does not immediately turn on - couple of reasons probably: I have no data points to prove either ways as to which approach is the best, but just got into a habit of turning off the AC when the engine is off. Thus in this case, once I lift the foot off the brakes, the engine starts and then I turn the AC back on. |
Originally Posted by Sankar
(Post 4345868)
Its available on amazon usa and auto stores in usa. |
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