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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2011, 03:12:57 pm »
Mortygttdi is based in Leeds, and definitely a VCDS wizard, drop him a PM, I'm sure he will help you out dude.  :happy2:
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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2011, 10:26:41 pm »
Does anybody know if it's the bulbs that have to be canbus or if its the actual ballast that is?
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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2011, 04:03:01 am »
Neither mate, the canbus friendly HIDs have a resistor, some companies supply identical kits but if you specify error free they will include the resistor.
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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2011, 12:11:50 pm »
I already have a 6000k kit which is canbus, but I want to change the bulbs to 4300k - would it be ok to just buy some 4300k HID bulbs and swap them over?
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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #19 on: December 22, 2011, 06:40:54 pm »
Shouldn't be a problem, either contact the supplier of your kit or look at a company like hids4u to find replacement bulbs.  Out of interest, why are you wanting to change from 6000k?
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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #20 on: December 22, 2011, 06:46:49 pm »
Bit too blue for me, got the indicators set on as well so think the 4300k ones would be spot on
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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #21 on: December 22, 2011, 07:27:48 pm »
I would go for 5000k personally, that's what I have -



Nice and white, match my sidelights perfectly.
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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #22 on: December 22, 2011, 08:41:03 pm »
Scratch that I've got 8000k at the min, just found the box, so een 5000k bulbs would be better. Are 55w 5000k bulbs bit bluer then 35w 5000k bulbs?
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Re: CANBUS vs Normal HID's
« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2012, 05:56:30 pm »
Quote from: vRS_Pagey on December 22, 2011, 07:27:48 pm
I would go for 5000k personally, that's what I have -



Nice and white, match my sidelights perfectly.

Your 5000k's look spot on there. I sold a lot of CANBUS 5k's. Still have a few too so anyone interested drop me a pm.

Just one other question. How would I go by fitting 50/55w bulbs. Will the whole ballast need replacing or just the bulbs?

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