Looking to upgrade my dipped main beam and sidelights, ideally with a tint of blue but still road legal! Any suggestions I would be thankful for :)

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Done this to mine last week, HID conversion 8000K. Easy DIY job!

How much did that cost you? Looks great

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Installation

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After

At night

Done this to mine last week, HID conversion 8000K. Easy DIY job!

How much did that cost you? Looks great!

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Not much mate, you can pick a kit up off eBay for about £20.

Would also recommend HID's, I too just wanted a tint of blue, so went for the 6000k HID's, personally I wouldn't go any higher, between 4000k and 6000k is white - white blueish

Looking to upgrade my dipped main beam and sidelights, ideally with a tint of blue but still road legal! Any suggestions I would be thankful for :)

The highest colour temp you can get and still be road legal is 4200k as far as I know, which is kind of white with a hint of yellow. A little higher at 4300k is whiter with just a slight hint of yellow (same as Ford DRLs), and if you want your lights whiter than that you're looking at HIDs really.

Thank you for all the help and suggestions, I didn't realise how cheap HID kits are so I might have to look into getting a kit. Thanks again

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Not much mate, you can pick a kit up off eBay for about £20.

do you have a link for these?

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The highest colour temp you can get and still be road legal is 4200k as far as I know, which is kind of white with a hint of yellow. A little higher at 4300k is whiter with just a slight hint of yellow (same as Ford DRLs), and if you want your lights whiter than that you're looking at HIDs really.

Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on this one. I had a 8000K HID kit on my Reno Clio (with projector lens headlights), and that passed every MoT with the kit in. Plus I never got pulled over by the police at any time either?

do you have a link for these?

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I didn't get my kit from eBay, got it elsewwere. Just had a quick look on eBay though, found this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Headlight-Xenon-HID-KIT-Slim-Ballasts-H1-H7-H11-9006-5000K-6000k-8000K-UK-/311182391090?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4873ea7732

I didn't get my kit from eBay, got it elsewwere. Just had a quick look on eBay though, found this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Headlight-Xenon-HID-KIT-Slim-Ballasts-H1-H7-H11-9006-5000K-6000k-8000K-UK-/311182391090?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4873ea7732

Will have to have a look into getting some, thank you for taking your time to help me! Much appreciated

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Sorry, but I have to disagree with you on this one. I had a 8000K HID kit on my Reno Clio (with projector lens headlights), and that passed every MoT with the kit in. Plus I never got pulled over by the police at any time either?

Passing MOTs and being road legal are two different things. I'm just talking about bulbs which are approved to be used on the roads. I know it's not a serious issue most of the time, and the police would only pull someone over if their lights were really blinding, or if they have nothing else going on.

I'm not saying you shouldn't use bulbs that aren't road legal, and I couldn't say that anyway because my Crystalvisions aren't :)

The highest colour temp you can get and still be road legal is 4200k as far as I know, which is kind of white with a hint of yellow. A little higher at 4300k is whiter with just a slight hint of yellow (same as Ford DRLs), and if you want your lights whiter than that you're looking at HIDs really.

Our 2003 Renault laguna Dynamique came with HIDs as standard and they were 5 or 6k bulbs... Passed MOT every year except two and that was silly little issues

Our 2003 Renault laguna Dynamique came with HIDs as standard and they were 5 or 6k bulbs... Passed MOT every year except two and that was silly little issues

I was a bit unclear, I was only talking about upgrading bulbs. Even then I could be wrong if there are aftermarket HID upgrades which are designed correctly, with auto-levelling and anything else your Laguna's lights would have had.

Lucky for me we don't have to do MOT's in SA, sure if the car has been modified beyond recognition they will pull you over and impound your car, but there is no way that they would even know that the car came or didn't come with HID (Xenons) this side of the pond, as long as you have them in projector type lights and they are not neon blue/purple (8000k-12000k). my 6000k lights looks exactly like the new Merc xenon lights, colour wise, sure there are other cars which HID's are whiter, hens why I say above anything between 4000k and 6000k would still be viewed as legal and looks like an OEM part