HID question again.
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From: Glen Rose, Texas
HID question again.
I have been reading multiple threads on this topic for the past week, and am getting more confused by the day. Statements of these work but you gotta add these, and dont do that, ect, has got me so lost.
My trucks a 2000 so I dont have factory fogs stock. I had to get a new bumper and found one with the fogs already in minus the bulbs. I decided to run HID's in those, and when I ran them to the headlight harness it was affecting my radio. I have seen this brought up in a few threads, so thats one thing im looking at. The fogs I decided to do a toggle swith with and keep it off the factory wiring harness and all is fine.
That brings me to headlight, because I want them to match.
1. What brand and wattage should I use? I know I need the hi/lo but thats all I know.
2. Are they actually a plug and play like there meant to be?
3. Are they going to affect my radio/gauges or any other piece of equipment?
Like I said, I have read post after post on this topic and keep getting more confused.
My trucks a 2000 so I dont have factory fogs stock. I had to get a new bumper and found one with the fogs already in minus the bulbs. I decided to run HID's in those, and when I ran them to the headlight harness it was affecting my radio. I have seen this brought up in a few threads, so thats one thing im looking at. The fogs I decided to do a toggle swith with and keep it off the factory wiring harness and all is fine.
That brings me to headlight, because I want them to match.
1. What brand and wattage should I use? I know I need the hi/lo but thats all I know.
2. Are they actually a plug and play like there meant to be?
3. Are they going to affect my radio/gauges or any other piece of equipment?
Like I said, I have read post after post on this topic and keep getting more confused.
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Matching them may be a problem if you do not know what "K" rating the fogs have.
Here is what I did when I installed mine.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...installed.html
Here is what I did when I installed mine.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...installed.html
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Yea your how to is what I keep going back to because it looks like you didnt have the interfaces with the radio. But on the other hand, reading all the other post about HID's got my brain going into over load. And yes I know my fogs are 6K, so headlight I will most likely go with 5K. Should make the headlights just a tad whiter than the blue tint to the fogs. I dont need/want an exact match, just dont like how much different the fogs looks to the yellowish my silverstars have.
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I went with retro-solutions 5k headlights and 3k fog lights. I would not run over 5k bulbs because 4.8k (sun light) is considered what the human eyes sees best. You start going over that by much and you are actually putting out less usable light to the eye.
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