HID retrofit potential group buy

**bogan** · 11th June 2011, 20:37

Time to upgrade the silly little candle Mr Honda put on my bike, these things look fucking awesome, and because they are a full retrofit including the lens and reflector I'm fairly sure they are warrantable.

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/pro...roducts_id=927

They say they do group buys, and the dollar is good for importing at the moment. If there is a large enough group buy it may be possible to get em for around 200 bucks each.

The beam cutoff pics look bloody amazing, could probly leave my tinted visor on even at night with one of these

**BMWST?** · 11th June 2011, 20:50

Originally Posted by bogan

Time to upgrade the silly little candle Mr Honda put on my bike, these things look fucking awesome, and because they are a full retrofit including the lens and reflector I'm fairly sure they are warrantable.

http://www.theretrofitsource.com/pro...roducts_id=927

They say they do group buys, and the dollar is good for importing at the moment. If there is a large enough group buy it may be possible to get em for around 200 bucks each.

The beam cutoff pics look bloody amazing, could probly leave my tinted visor on even at night with one of these

make sure they suit driving on the left hand side of the road

**LBD** · 11th June 2011, 21:06

I looked into that for the Duc....went with a couple of "Fog" lights instead....

http://www.warn.com/atv/lights/W200X...ot_Beams.shtml

**bogan** · 11th June 2011, 21:36

Originally Posted by BMWST?

make sure they suit driving on the left hand side of the road

Thanks for the tip, just put an inquiry in now, also asked what sort of discount there might be for a group buy.

**Richard Mc F** · 12th June 2011, 18:14

I have retro fitted HID lights but in my increasing paranoia I wonder what you do when it fails....at night...at speed, one bulb with a servo operated beam modifier, at least with the old school filament bulbs you have the back up of the "other" beam.

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**Gremlin** · 12th June 2011, 20:51

Originally Posted by Richard Mc F

but in my increasing paranoia I wonder what you do when it fails....at night...at speed, one bulb with a servo operated beam modifier, at least with the old school filament bulbs you have the back up of the "other" beam.

That's easy. you don't have the beam modifier, and you have two separate filaments/bulbs. Actually, make it 2 bulbs... I've had both filaments (low and high) blow in one night ride, and had a very interesting ride through northland with no headlight in the dark

**bsasuper** · 12th June 2011, 21:13

youll spend a lot of money, have a hell of a time getting them to work right, then rip them out, and it will bug you for ages that you spent so much $$$ on them when you could have spent it on something usefull.

**bogan** · 12th June 2011, 21:19

Originally Posted by Richard Mc F

I have retro fitted HID lights but in my increasing paranoia I wonder what you do when it fails....at night...at speed, one bulb with a servo operated beam modifier, at least with the old school filament bulbs you have the back up of the "other" beam.

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But the absence of a filament means there is less to fail to begin with, assuming the ballasts are fairly reliable.

Originally Posted by bsasuper

youll spend a lot of money, have a hell of a time getting them to work right, then rip them out, and it will bug you for ages that you spent so much $$$ on them when you could have spent it on something usefull.

A guy on another forum got his sorted easy as, his in garage pics look pretty much the same as those on the site. We're still waiting on some proper nighttime road pictures though

Have you had issues with this sort of thing?

**cleverchap** · 12th June 2011, 22:42

I fitted two sets of these to my cars recently and they are reasonably straight forward. I bought the kits off ebay as they were way cheaper even with postage etc.

Had a bit of hassle with the second set as the relay wiring loom was buggered and the seller didn't want to play ball until I had jumped through a few hoops checking this and that which I had already done by swapping things between my other ride.

I've had no issues with warrants and the lights are a LOT better.

Highly recommended

**bogan** · 15th June 2011, 09:48

got a reply, they can get projectors for either side drive. However I'm not sure what the convention is, he said:
"Anyways, the standard projector in the Sport bike Stage III kit is a LHD projector, which is lower on the left side, higher on the right side in terms of light output, like this:"

Shouldn't a LHD projector put more output off to the left, away from the oncoming traffic? Or have I got that wrong?

Also %discount is proportional to number in the group buy, 10 people = 10% off for everyone.

**Brian d marge** · 15th June 2011, 14:02

Ive got one lying around , was given it from a coustomer ...free to a good home if anyone wants

Stephen

**bogan** · 15th June 2011, 14:17

Originally Posted by Brian d'marge

Ive got one lying around , was given it from a coustomer ...free to a good home if anyone wants

Stephen

could be keen, what are the details? got the ballasts etc? does it do both beams?

**Brian d marge** · 16th June 2011, 03:08

Originally Posted by bogan

could be keen, what are the details? got the ballasts etc? does it do both beams?

No Idea , Havent even looked at it ..will look tomorrow

Stephen

**C.Linnell** · 16th June 2011, 17:06

My Street Triple lights practically blind me reflecting off roadsigns on full beam... and friends riding behind me have told me they've been dazzled by it too. I don't need any retrofits!

**bogan** · 16th June 2011, 17:22

Originally Posted by C.Linnell

My Street Triple lights practically blind me reflecting off roadsigns on full beam... and friends riding behind me have told me they've been dazzled by it too. I don't need any retrofits!

Are you sure, being blinded by your own headlights doesn't sound ideal