ok to use HIDs for flash to pass? - BMW Forum

official_style · 06-06-2006, 11:06 PM

whatup everyone? i actually dont drive a bimmer, i drive a 2005 mustang, but i have a HID question, and i know you all are the experts! so i installed the saleen HIDs on my car, and i wanted to know if its bad for the ballasts/bulbs if i use them for flash to pass. to me it seems it would be bad for them to just click them on and off, without them warming up, but what do the experts think?

Ivan · 06-06-2006, 11:15 PM

gt mustang?

official_style · 06-06-2006, 11:18 PM

ya of course lol. no way i would get a v6 stang! heres a few pix...

saltshaker185 · 06-06-2006, 11:28 PM

why is that last pic tilted??

official_style · 06-06-2006, 11:31 PM

cuz i was tilted and took it fast lol. so whatup should i not flash to pass with the HIDs?

Ivan · 06-06-2006, 11:50 PM

nice car bro

official_style · 06-06-2006, 11:51 PM

thx!

RexKing86 · 06-07-2006, 12:04 AM

seems like you wouldnt want to flash them, but idk for sure. do you have them in your high beams? very nice car... always wanted a stang but insurance is redic, and i wasnt buying the shitty V6. Came close to buying a 97 black 5-speed about a year ago until I saw what a GT would do to my rates!

RexKing86 · 06-07-2006, 12:05 AM

PS-are those angel eyes??

official_style · 06-07-2006, 12:07 AM

no they are the HID headlights from the saleen s281. i bought them direct from saleen, it was a complete set of new headlights, not just bulbs and ballasts. since these cars only have 1 bulb for high and low beam, the saleen headlights have a reflector that moves when you click high beams. these things are 1000 times better than the stock ones. i belive sylvania is the company that makes them for saleen.
i hate angel eyes unless they are a bmw, otherwise they are R I C E

RexKing86 · 06-07-2006, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by official_style

i hate angel eyes unless they are a bmw, otherwise they are R I C E

there are a few cars out there that look okay, but your right, it really is BMW's thing. it may look interesting on you car since each headlight is like a perfect circle unlike most housings.

Cruzin 323is · 06-07-2006, 08:45 AM

i know for a fact, that the lexus IS has day time running lights, and when they want to flash the high beams at some 1, there HID's go on also...

it cant be that bad for them... but i wouldnt constantly do it..

where in NY you from

official_style · 06-07-2006, 10:26 AM

I live in manhattan, but am up in westchester and the bx a lot

e36surge · 06-07-2006, 08:36 PM

Nice stang! Reminds me of my old man's 1965 Mustang. A bunch of guys up here ripping around in new stangs... giving me the itch... but I digress... got the retro bug, wouldn't mind buying an old stang from the 60's...

Don't see any harm in flicking your HiD's!

official_style · 06-07-2006, 08:47 PM

ya i was trying to go for the 1969 mach 1 look. i was thinking of building one, and then this thing came out, so i figured i could have one that kind of looks like it that is actually relieable.