HID Conversion

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I bought the 5000K Brightstar HID conversion for my Base model through importhookup.com and it arrived less than a week later. Before I continue further, I'd like to thank John at Import Hookup for some instructions on the kit installation and Dave (Dave079) with his expertise on this matter; thanks again guys.

Here's what comes in the kit>

I first jacked the car up off the ground with a hydrolic jack I got from K-Mart for $15. I then removed the wheels, which allowed me to then remove the inner wheel well. To remove the inner fender, I removed 3 plastic clips and about 8 screws. Three screws were holding the inner fender liner to the metal fender at the edge. The 5 others were below the front lip of the car.

To remove the plastic clips. Take a flat head screwdriver and stick it between the plastic corners and gently push the screwdriver under the circular part. You'll be able to pop the clip out with a little movement.

After you unscrew and unclip everything, you have to push the inner fender to the medial part of the car to make it free. After this, you can just let it ly down on the brake rotor. The white circluar cover is what covers the lighting unit and to remove this, turn it the direction that it says.

After you find your locations for mounting the ballast and ignitor, clean the area with rubbing alcohol. Apply 3M outdoor double sided tape the the ballast and ignitor. Put them where you like or where I put mine. I put the bulb in first, mounted the ballast, mounted the ignitor, and then hooked all 3 of those up. I then connect the red and black wires to the extension wiring provided in the kit. It's simply a plug and play system, real user friendly.

I opted not to drill through the plastic covering and run the wires through it because I couldn't find any drill bits. Also, I probably wouldn't haven't wanted to drill anything on my car. The passenger side has a lot less room to work with so I had to mount the ballast at an angle next to the washer fluid container.

If you opt to drill the plastic headlight cover (and you should since the H7 bulbs are not sealed and headlight is right next to the wheel) then you are most likely in luck - most decent HID kits for H7 bulbs come with rubber grommets already pre-installed, so use them. 1" wide bit usually does the job. You just have to run power wires for the ballast out of the headlight assembly and then 2 wires from the ballast will go back into the headlight to power the HID bulb. See last image:

Driver side

Passenger side

Driver side with re-installed cover

Pictures from start up to a few minutes.

firing up

15 seconds

1 minute

2 minutes

Comparison

The pictures below compare the OEM Halogen lights to the after market HID lights. The difference is truly amazing.

Before	After	HID	OEM Halogen
lights warmed up

Before and After against the garage wall (the wall is beige so the HIDs aren't actually this yellow and the HIDs are re-leveled). Also,the rear wheels are in the gutter so the car is angled higher and not level with the actual driveway. The lights only come up midway up your thigh.