HID pattern

[30stones]

Anyone know how to get rid of this black space in my low beam output? Or what causes it? Stock projectors with morimoto hids.

 

[ilovemyramlaremie]

Got tired of the of my Morimoto hid issues, ripped it all off. Installed a set of auxito compact, and super bright 6000k adjustable LED. Never looked back

 

[Cableman]

Anyone know how to get rid of this black space in my low beam output? Or what causes it? Stock projectors with morimoto hids.View attachment 473198View attachment 473199

Did you clock them correctly with the bar on the bottom? You will have to unscrew the Mount a tad twist them more and tighten back down. If they wiggle or turn in mount you can add a piece of tape or like to keep them from moving.

 

[30stones]

Got tired of the of my Morimoto hid issues, ripped it all off. Installed a set of auxito compact, and super bright 6000k adjustable LED. Never looked back

I’ve had mine 4 years now haven’t had any real problems with them.

 

[30stones]

Did you clock them correctly with the bar on the bottom? You will have to unscrew the Mount a tad twist them more and tighten back down. If they wiggle or turn in mount you can add a piece of tape or like to keep them from moving.

Yeah that’s actually when I noticed this dark spot was after I clocked them. Unless the one side backed out a bit. I cut the little tabs a bit in order to get the bulb in the housing so when I clocked it the wire was facing down.

 

[bigred90gt]

That is the gap between the two slopes on the cutoff. It has nothing to do with the return wire position. The only way to get rid of, or minimize that, will be to pull the passenger side assembly and unscrew the mounting post with the ball on the end a little. It will move the beam inward toward the drivers side a little bit. Unfortunately, on mine, it also created a slightly larger gap at the back of the headlight housing to fender interface because it is essentially rotating the assembly inward. It never did fully go away for me, but I was able to reduce it to something tolerable. That is part of the problem with using halogen projectors with HID bulbs. The beam pattern with an HID will never be the same as a halogen in a halogen projector. If they were HID projectors, the beam would fill that gap.

It also has nothing to do with the fact that the bulbs are morimoto. A different bulb could possibly have the arc in a slightly different location which could possibly help (or hurt) this effect, but it would be a matter of buying different bulbs until you found a set that fixed it, IF you did. I eventually just got used to it.

It worked out ok for mine. I adjusted them up a little more, and that dark spot kept the beam out of rear view mirrors, and the cutoff to the left keeps it out of oncoming traffic. My drivers side cutoff was a little further left than yours, with the slope right on or slightly over the line, so the dark spot was almost perfectly inline with the car in front of me. I had my wife drive in front of me in her mustang just to make sure I wasnt blinding everyone. No issues.

 

[30stones]

That is the gap between the two slopes on the cutoff. It has nothing to do with the return wire position. The only way to get rid of, or minimize that, will be to pull the passenger side assembly and unscrew the mounting post with the ball on the end a little. It will move the beam inward toward the drivers side a little bit. Unfortunately, on mine, it also created a slightly larger gap at the back of the headlight housing to fender interface because it is essentially rotating the assembly inward. It never did fully go away for me, but I was able to reduce it to something tolerable. That is part of the problem with using halogen projectors with HID bulbs. The beam pattern with an HID will never be the same as a halogen in a halogen projector. If they were HID projectors, the beam would fill that gap.

It also has nothing to do with the fact that the bulbs are morimoto. A different bulb could possibly have the arc in a slightly different location which could possibly help (or hurt) this effect, but it would be a matter of buying different bulbs until you found a set that fixed it, IF you did. I eventually just got used to it.

It worked out ok for mine. I adjusted them up a little more, and that dark spot kept the beam out of rear view mirrors, and the cutoff to the left keeps it out of oncoming traffic. My drivers side cutoff was a little further left than yours, with the slope right on or slightly over the line, so the dark spot was almost perfectly inline with the car in front of me. I had my wife drive in front of me in her mustang just to make sure I wasnt blinding everyone. No issues.

Awesome! Thank you!!

 

[Rotciv]

Got tired of the of my Morimoto hid issues, ripped it all off. Installed a set of auxito compact, and super bright 6000k adjustable LED. Never looked back

How is the light output? Does it have a sharp cutoff? I've been recommended not to put LED inside the OEM projectors at all due to how the light is projected. I'm going the other route of retrofitting the Morimoto MLED 2.0 inside them, but if LED bulbs can do a good job, then it will save me time and money. Do you also have link to the bulbs that you purchased?

 

[ilovemyramlaremie]

The light output is great!! LED have come a long way from the old stuff. I was hearing too not to go with led in the projectors, but after installing these new models with the set screw to be able to properly rotate the led in the 9 and 3 position. I’m my opinion, the complicated HID are a thing of the past.

 

[ilovemyramlaremie]

 

[ilovemyramlaremie]

Auxito
Amazon has them. $59 for two
Don’t buy the cheapest set if you want the quality

 

[bigred90gt]

How is the light output? Does it have a sharp cutoff? I've been recommended not to put LED inside the OEM projectors at all due to how the light is projected. I'm going the other route of retrofitting the Morimoto MLED 2.0 inside them, but if LED bulbs can do a good job, then it will save me time and money. Do you also have link to the bulbs that you purchased?

The beam pattern is usually fine, and the cutoff is usually great. The problem with LEDs in halogen projectors is that the beam has no intensity at distance. Driving highway speeds, you will be outdriving your headlights because they just fade out. It is really easy to see if you park in front of a wall, you'll see a great hot spot right where it should be. as you back up, about 30-40 feet away from the wall, the hotspot is all but completely gone and there is just a light pattern. 30-40 feet in front of the truck is obviously not enough distance for anything safe, and it only gets worst from there.

If you buy an actual LED projector, such as the MLED, I would assume it would be better, but I have no personal experience with them.

 

[ilovemyramlaremie]

Humm. I haven’t experienced this problem

 

[Rotciv]

The beam pattern is usually fine, and the cutoff is usually great. The problem with LEDs in halogen projectors is that the beam has no intensity at distance. Driving highway speeds, you will be outdriving your headlights because they just fade out. It is really easy to see if you park in front of a wall, you'll see a great hot spot right where it should be. as you back up, about 30-40 feet away from the wall, the hotspot is all but completely gone and there is just a light pattern. 30-40 feet in front of the truck is obviously not enough distance for anything safe, and it only gets worst from there.

If you buy an actual LED projector, such as the MLED, I would assume it would be better, but I have no personal experience with them.

Perhaps swapping the OEM lens with an aftermarket one would give them a better cutoff and output? I just need to figure out what's the size of the lens.

 

[bigred90gt]

Perhaps swapping the OEM lens with an aftermarket one would give them a better cutoff and output? I just need to figure out what's the size of the lens.

Swapping the entire projector assembly would be a much better solution, and there is a kit available on the market that has everything you need. It is a D2S projector, specific to HID, and you would be hard pressed to get a better beam pattern. Swapping the lens alone is not practical, and I'm not even sure there is an option to do so without a ton of custom work which would be spendy and very time consuming for not really any better results. Plus, the bowl in the halogen projector is a weak spot that will most likely burn over time cutting down on output. HID projector bowls are designed for HIDs and will not burn.

 

[16WhiteQC]

HID's in stock projectors - Helpfull info inside.

Hi, When installing HID's in the stock housings make sure to "clock" the bulbs so the electrode (wire on the bulb) is facing down. I did 55w HID's from Jeremy and was not impressed with output honestly, I had a dark/dull spot real bad on the driver side and the pass side was better but not...

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As long as the wire on the bulb is at the 6 o'clock position (straight down) you should not have a shadow from the bulb.