Wasn't sure if anyone had seen these out yet. But I just noticed them so I thought I would share. Man they really think a lot of these lights. I didn't realize that high intensity discharge lights cost so much.

http://store.cal-mustang.com/cm_able/showd...ATID=20&CM_SA=0

 

Wow!!! $$$$

 

 

This is the price paid by "gotta haves" I'm sure if we can wait a few months either this supplier will have filled all the high priced orders and will lower the price to get the next most profitable group of buyers, and/or other suppliers will see this and jump on the bandwagon with prices some percentage lower. Until we get to a reasonable price.

 

I found a link from another forum ... i believe these are stock replacements:

http://www.xesighting.com/products_detail....1&cat=1&prod=85

they aren't available yet, but the price is MUCH better than the saleens

 

$760, Still too high. :bowdown:
Read the bottom: $380, 1 unit per box! :scratch:
When HID's 1st became available for cars, they were like $750. Now you can get them for $300 FOR THE SET!
:rock:
Dave...

 

Excellent find Nate! Will have to measure the 05 lights when I get my car. I wonder if the headlights and fog lights are the same size? I have seen some people making the fog lights into driving lights already.

 

Xsighting lighting is the dot com interface for Sylvania/Valeo - the maufacturer of those lights which are sold wholesale to a little company called Saleen. Don't bother measuring. That's the unit.

P

 

Guys, hate to break it to you, but quality HID's are friggin expensive.

$1000 per side for a 93 750il.

 

If you just want REALLY bright white lights, that blind everyone and leave them flashing you and flipping you off, you can buy sylvania silver stars for like $30.00. I had them on my last car and loved them for night driving, unfortunately no one else loved them and they became such a nuisance I put the stock back in.

Otherwise if you do a HID swap out, you'r going to be spending quite a bit for the annoyance of having everyone flashing their brights at you.

Not trying to be a jerk, just the facts. I thought everyone else was just crazy until I saw them first hand, my low beams were atleast as bright as my oem highs.

 

crudpuppy!

 

everything Saleen is mucho exspensive. i got my catalog a while bacck n im like WTF?!?!

waaaay overpriced! :notnice:

 

Thanks for the heads up Peet. May have to look into these once I get my car.

 

FWIW, blue tintend bulbs are the most hineyenine idea to ever come out of a factory. That having been said, the silver stars are $50 a pair. How many you going to burn through in 5 years? I'd guess about 8 sets $400. That's a nice down payment on real lights.

Rakshas is dead on correct in that real HIDs cost for a reason - that reason is that they DO NOT GLARE so people don't flash you. All that money goes into optics, control and engineering. The ballast and capsule cost next to nothing in these packages. I mean folks like BMW and Mercedes etc get the pair of capsules, the ballasts and wiring for around $100 for the set. The remainder? Optics.

Go to any HID forum and read up - the biggest recommendation is to retrofit with real lighting systems. So option 1, hack, option 2, blue halogen, option 3, retrofit just bulbs, opiton 4 retrofit whole assembly option 5, retrofit projectors.

I'd love to for 5 - but 4 will have to do - and the saleen/xsighting are just the ticket.

One final thing to keep in mind -- very few of these systems are bi-xenon. Meaning high beams do not exist! figure that into the cost! The expensive units do.

Peet