what color K for hids in my truck

I dont want to melt the light housing of course, but what K would be recommended

Color temperature has nothing to do with temp of the bulb. They're all the same.

Get whatever temp you want.

4K - White, slightly yellow.
6K - White, slightly blue/purple.
8K - Blue/Purple
10K - Blue
12K - Purple
14K - UberPurple

I would get yellows, 4k or 3k.

I think it would match perfectly.

ooo ok, i thought the higher the k the hotter, cool i get it now

Get 3K!

yes get those PLEASE!!! ^^^^

anymore pics of those???

I found that on the action shots of the HIDs

Edit

Found these by searching the forums.



3000K

I hate 3000K headlights. But that's me. I say get 6000K personally.

Are the 14K's still driveable with? Or do they end up worse than stocks? (I've only seen pics up to 8K)

I agree with Aken, I hate the 3000K, but since you have a yellow truck, I think it would look sick IMO.

Dave I have 10s or 12s and they are drivable.

14Ks are not recommended for daily driving. They are bright, but because they output so much color, very little light reflects off surfaces. And you can't see for crap in the rain.

10Ks are nice, 12Ks are pushing it. 14Ks are recommended for show cars only.

Think getting the 10K's with red LED's (red blue = purple?) pointed at them will give the same desired deep purple look in the 14K's, but still have the driveability of the 14s?

You'd have to use a lot of LEDs to produce enough lights to mix with the brightness of the HID. And even then it still wouldn't be the same color.

I think I read that most all Phillips and Slyvania HID setups that are used in most vehicles today use a 5400k color temperature. The blue and purple effect is caused by the HID optics themselves, including the lens, project, etc. The ECE spec optics create the nice deep blue or violet color that you find on some Euro cars, BMWs especially. This is simply a prism effect, which is why the color will suddenly change as the road surface changes, but to the driver, the bulbs appear as a nice bright white with a slight blue tint. If you stand directly in front of the car, the light will also appear different as opposed to if you look from a diagonal.

The website that I learned this off of ranks on all of the aftermarket companies that sell ghetto equipment advertised at extremely high temperatures. The higher color temperature bulbs (12000k) are not going to be as bright.

I think you might actually be able to get a true HID kit for your Ford, I've seen whole headlight sets sold, that include the correct optics.

I now hate my 6ks. Driving at night in the rain sucks.

ill probably be looking at the 10k

04yellowf150 wrote:

ill probably be looking at the 10k

FINE BE THAT WAY.

at least get 3k for your fog lights!!!

Tim wrote:

I now hate my 6ks. Driving at night in the rain sucks.

You're wierd. 6K is one of the best colors of any kind of weather.

Driving at night in the rain sucks no matter what, lol.

Reflects like ****. Guess it's my housings. We'll see how the 4ks look.

i like the 6k i want them for my gta but it has sealed lights but i dont know if they make them for sealed but its fun when u burn out a light to throw them cause they explode

They make sealed beam housings with HID. Just gotta find 'em.

oh i gotcha

I love yellow foglights. If I had the money I would be HID'd out.