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Thanks Gixxer, I thought that Z4's(sry, SLK better) question re: canbus was that the kits are one in the same but I admit my weakness in all things Electrical....LOL

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I received the kit sometime over the weekend and I opened it yesterday to take a look...but that's as far as I got.

Glanced at the install....straightforward.....they suggest 90-120 minutes. My suggestion is that if you find you are anywhere near 90 minutes, don't EVER admit it, TO ANYONE!


It had been a long w/e so maybe I'll get to it this week.

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Whoa... same exact contents as my $39 Chinese Amazon kit.

Identical. Same packaging, same wire colors, same materials, same everything


That diode dynamics place sure is ballsy
 

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Whoa... same exact contents as my $39 Chinese Amazon kit.

Identical. Same packaging, same wire colors, same materials, same everything


That diode dynamics place sure is ballsy

Bulb caps with foam- industry standard

Wire colors- industry standard.

Hylux 2A88- far better than anything you'll ever find on Amazon. However, plenty have copied the exterior design

Bulb built by Diode exclusively for Diode.

Remember cheap kits are built to resemble better kits
 

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Bulb caps with foam- industry standard

Wire colors- industry standard.

Hylux 2A88- far better than anything you'll ever find on Amazon. However, plenty have copied the exterior design

Bulb built by Diode exclusively for Diode.

Remember cheap kits are built to resemble better kits

Looks suspiciously like same shit to me


There's greater varience between stock shit from different suppliers

...you DO know its all made in China, and there's absolutely NO such thing as an HID plant with Diode Dynamics written on the building, right????

That's just rebranding ******** so they can charge Osram Germany pricing for Innovited China product

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Coincidentally, for 30-40 bucks, nobody cares what their connectors look like (since nobody looks inside the box), so they use whatever cheap generic clips everyone else has
 

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Looks suspiciously like same shit to me


There's greater varience between stock shit from different suppliers

...you DO know its all made in China, and there's absolutely NO such thing as an HID plant with Diode Dynamics written on the building, right????

That's just rebranding ******** so they can charge Osram Germany pricing for Innovited China product

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Coincidentally, for 30-40 bucks, nobody cares what their connectors look like (since nobody looks inside the box), so they use whatever cheap generic clips everyone else has
Funny stroy but Diode stuff is actually made in America. I'm sure some supplies are from china but made/built in America
 
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Funny stroy but Diode stuff is actually made in America. I'm sure some supplies are from china but made/built in America

You sure?

IS there even a single American HID manufacturer???

Cuz stock HID on FoMoCo vehicles is Osram Germany
 

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You sure?

IS there even a single American HID manufacturer???

Cuz stock HID on FoMoCo vehicles is Osram Germany
100% sure on diode being American made.

Some of the better equipment for oem hids come from Germany,Japan and a few other places around the world but no expense is spared for engineering and the overall build. When were talking Chinese manufacturing we see low cost components and every possible way to save money.

The retrofit I'm building now is made up of Rx350 projectors(Japan), hella gen3 ballasts(Germany) and osram CBB bulbs(Germany) . They are said to be the best in the hid/projector market
 

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I got to admit, when I bought my Factory Xenon HID, Canbus equipped '02 car a bunch of years ago, I was simply amazed at the level and quality of lighting....very, very impressive, even by today's standards!

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I got to admit, when I bought my Factory Xenon HID, Canbus equipped '02 car a bunch of years ago, I was simply amazed at the level and quality of lighting....very, very impressive, even by today's standards!

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When I bought my first pnp hid kit back in 2002 it was hella ballasts and rebased osram bulbs. Top notch stuff but it cost me $600 and no one else in my area had them.
 

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Went with the Morimoto HID kit. Installed and confirmed everything works, but I've still got to go back and permanently mount the ballasts. 35W, 5500K HID - looks great. I'll get some better pictures at night later. I did use the CANBUS system, works just fine, no flickering or light out signal from the car (not sure if we even have that). Should have taken a picture with one of the halogens still in there for comparison, but is it MUCH brighter, the focus point looks identical as before.

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