Guys if you want bright lights then LED's my brother has like 4 grand of LED's on his H2T and its like turning the sun on just unbeliveable . He also has the good HID's in his for his headlights and they are bright. I have the sylvania ultras the brightest they have and they are good and also have put the biggest watt bulb i could find in my driving lights made a little diff.

 

What I was trying to imply is that the (stock) BriteBox wiring harness supplies high beam power [almost] directly from the battery. It would be interesting to test the lumen difference between standard high beam, hold it in 'flash', and the BriteBox unit.

But --- I'm almost sure that the BriteBox folks have already done that!

 

I bought a set from http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/Ap...Raptor-HID-Kit and I have to tell you they work great. I outfitted both regular beams and the fog lamps with a 35W Raptor ballast 8k light (light blue color) for less than 70.00!!! I know you might think they are junk but I have had them for 2 years now and have NEVER had a problem. They ship anywhere and they have lifetime guarantee on the ballasts. I had sylvanias for a while, although an improvement they were junk as well.

I never run with both headlights and foglamps, they are just too bright. Offroading or desolate streets/areas they are AWESOME. Alot of guys say that they blind oncoming traffic. I spent several hours aligning the lights since my truck is raised 6" on 37's and to be honest in the two years I have had a few people flash me, but that's it. You do take the chance of getting pulled over but since they are plug and play you can return your truck to stock in less than 30 minutes if need be...

The kit consists of the ballast, harness and HID bulb.

***also they sell a low beam/high beam bulb.....this is a waste of money since the high beam is nothing but an added filament bulb that illuminates....I just dealt with not having high beams since the HID is so damn good you dont need high beams***


Save your money on brite box, sylvanias blah blah blah and do yourself a favor....try these.

Joe

 

If the lights are "dull" (kinda yellow in color) then u must have either a Ground or Power problem. I would try hooking up direct leads (ie...battery terminal's to bulbs) w/small aligator clips.
If they get bright (which they really must UNLESS they are pointed at the sky) you can jumper 1 at a time between your harness & battery to figure out which side is not getting a good connection, if it turns out to be the Power side my first move would be to change the Relay & if its the Ground side just add an additional ground....Good Luck

P.S...Headlamps in my 06' are quite Bright (dont even turn on my "Fog" lights very often) i did however install
Sylvania Silverstar Ultra bulbs in headlamps & yellow xenon bulbs in Fog lamps

 

"Joe-Blow" those kits do look nice...If u dont recommend the high/low kit iam thinking the 55w kit or do u think 55 would be OverKill ?

Our 2009 Ford Flex has factory HID's & there isnt much help on "high" but the Low beams look great (maybe i can find out what Watt/Temp they are) cause i would like a more "blue" headlamp in my Superduty

 

X2 on the DDM kits, I have the 35w ,6k lights on mine ..I did spend alot of time getting them aligned properly..In the 2 years i've had them,i can only remember getting flashed once.
I tow an RV regularly through some desolate back country non lighted roads, and the stock set-up was not good ,no matter what i did...Once i did the DDm kits , i can see everything, and feel alot safer running country ,unlit roads at night.

 

06_kingranch,

The 55W is overkill for the fog lamp and it will probably melt the housing. I went with 35W top and bottom for uniformity and let me tell you they are bright enough.

 

Erik727,

I agree brother, they are a great product for the price.

 

SOLD! Wish I hadn't even bought the Britebox.... Even with the new Phillips Extremes the light output was only marginally increased and at night if it is raining or the pavement is wet, I still can't see the lines on the road that well. Think I'm going to try the 55 watt suckers and hope they do the job! I have the HD edition so the lenses are smoked a little bit. However, I do not believe they are smoked that bad as to take away from the full light output to this degree.... poor design on Fords end I think.

Will be ordering a set today and I hope they do last at least a couple of years.

 

Yeah i figured that...I would be putting them in the Headlamp housings, i have those "yellow" xenon bulbs in my Fog lamps & love em

* Hey "berick" please let me know what u think of the 55w kit

 

I would try to adjust them down. As cheezit suggested. Sounds like they are up to much and if they are they wouldn't seem bright at all.

 

Hi, all. I'm new to the forums, and signed up primarily for this post.

My F250 has always had dim headlights, especially when compared to so many other cars (my wife has a 2007 Honda Odyssey, and the lighting is unbelievable).

I finally broke down and bought a set of Xenon lights (HID lights), and am sorely disappointed. They were 55w xenons, 6k in color, and--IF they work--they're only marginally brighter than my stock lights. I leave my lights set to "auto on", and I can't tell you the number of times that the switch has turned on, and I'll be driving at near-dark with no headlights. I'm also tired of people being good samaritans and telling me, "Hey buddy--just wanted to let you know that you have a headlight out". I had no idea that HID's were so tempermental.

I did try clicking on the link that someone posted for Raptor lights, but apparently that company doesn't sell them anymore.

Has anyone tried a projector headlight system? This is what comes standard on many foreign cars (like my wife's Honda), which focuses the beam more intensely than the dispersion beams on the F250. I threw away $80 on the Xenons, but I don't want to throw away $300 to $500 on a projector system if they aren't any good.

I don't know how anyone else's truck is, but my high beams are worse than the low beams. Going to high beam, although it throws light higher, disperses the light so much that I feel light I'm shining a cheap, 2 "D" cell flashlight around. And with high beams, there is absolutely no light right in front of my truck... kind-of scary. The xenon lights, although a bit brighter, have the same light pattern.

Anyway, I wanted to post and see if anyone has tried the projector headlights, and if so, what they thought. One note... if I look directly into the headlights at a good angle, they are nearly blinding. I've thought about just adjusting them "up", but it seems to me it would make the high beam dispersion (and lack of light directly in front) even worse.

Oh! And to address one comment I read... I have been to the eye doctor a few times since I purchased my truck (back in '05), and was given a clean bill of health! <--and no, I don't wear these at night

 

There's a lot about HID's you didn't understand when you purchased and installed them. I they replaced standard headlights, they don't work legally! They require CLEAR lenses as the standard bulb use the lenses you have to control the lighting to the correct area of the road ahead.. High beams AND low beams. The standard lenses scatter the HIDs so badly you get what you have experienced.

Also, once you install those on your vehicle you shouldn't even attempt to use the "AUTO" position of your HL Switch. You should always use the regular "ON-OFF" positions and even then, both lamps MAY not light. I always started the vehicle before turning on the headlights.... that USUALLY worked. I believe if you install standard Silver Stars you will be pleased with the light output.

 

I'm not sure I follow you. What I purchased was a set of bi-xenon H13 lamps. They have a high beam and low beam setting, just like the factory H13's, and they were made as a direct replacement (simply replace the H13 halogen bulb with the H13 xenon--it twists right into the lens like the old H13 halogen lights). The kit comes with a ballast that plugs into the factory wiring harness, and also has a capacitor. These then hook into the bi-xenon H13 bulb. So--in essence--you're simply replacing the factory H13 with a xenon H13. Same connections, fittings, etc. And, as a result, the same light pattern.

T%his is why I'm considering projector lenses (I forgot to place a link). They replace the entire headlamp assembly with projector lenses to focus the light from the bulbs. Here's a link to the projector lights:

Ford F250 Super Duty 2005-2007 Clear Dual Halo Projector Headlights wi | A103IBSX101 - TopGearAutosport

And here's a link to the xenon lights I bought:

Welcome to CarXenonKits.com

Let me know what you think.

 

You'll love the projectors..... they come with their own lens and have a clear lens...the bulb does it's own focusing whereas the HID's you have do also EXCEPT the OEM lenses on your truck had focus lines in them to focus standard lamps (NOT HID's). Therefore, your STANDARD lenses scattered the HID light so badly you couldn't see well with them. Bet you also got "flashed" a lot when both light were on, eh? That's the problem with using HID's in STANDARD lensed autos. And also why it is illegal (federal standard).