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H4 telescopic HIDs w/ super slim ballasts
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<blockquote data-quote="Fred W" data-source="post: 360467" data-attributes="member: 3828"><p>No, you don't lose your high beams. That is the point of the telescopic action. It moves the capsule in for high beam and out for low beam. There has been a good amount of discussion about these and other HID upgrades on the forum. Quite a few other forumites have installed telescopics and most are very satisfied with the results. The consensus is that the telescopics give the best high beam and also a very good low beam which is far brighter than the stock halogens.</p><p></p><p>The big difference between this kit and the kits that others have been buying is the superslim ballasts. That should make locating the ballasts in the nose of the faring much easier.</p><p></p><p>Installing HIDs has an added advantage of reducing the power drawn by the headlights to 70W (2x35W) in either high or low beam. The stock halogens draw 110W / 120W in low / high.</p><p></p><p>The absolute best available lighting is to use the low beam only HID kits and then add Solteks or some other HID type of aux lights for use as high beams. However, that costs upwards of $800 by the time the brackets and aux lights and low beam HIDs are all bought. Installing these also does not preclude installing some sort of aux lights at a later time (like when you hit the lottery) if desired.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred W, post: 360467, member: 3828"] No, you don't lose your high beams. That is the point of the telescopic action. It moves the capsule in for high beam and out for low beam. There has been a good amount of discussion about these and other HID upgrades on the forum. Quite a few other forumites have installed telescopics and most are very satisfied with the results. The consensus is that the telescopics give the best high beam and also a very good low beam which is far brighter than the stock halogens. The big difference between this kit and the kits that others have been buying is the superslim ballasts. That should make locating the ballasts in the nose of the faring much easier. Installing HIDs has an added advantage of reducing the power drawn by the headlights to 70W (2x35W) in either high or low beam. The stock halogens draw 110W / 120W in low / high. The absolute best available lighting is to use the low beam only HID kits and then add Solteks or some other HID type of aux lights for use as high beams. However, that costs upwards of $800 by the time the brackets and aux lights and low beam HIDs are all bought. Installing these also does not preclude installing some sort of aux lights at a later time (like when you hit the lottery) if desired. [/QUOTE]
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