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Use 6000k, its blueish color and matches xenon white leds

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I use 6000k, its blueish color and matches xenon white leds.

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Recommend good quality kit

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Can anyone recommend a good quality kit that they have successfully used?

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Recommend good quality kit

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Can anyone recommend a good quality kit that they have successfully used?

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Replace parking light

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While you're changing to HID, you should changing the parking light to LEDs to!

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Use grommet

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As for installation, mount the ballast in the stock location in the back of the headlight cap and drill small hole to route the wires using a grommet.

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Recommend good quality kit

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Suggestion · Original poster

Can anyone recommend a good quality kit that they have successfully used?

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Replace parking light

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While you're changing to HID, you should changing the parking light to LEDs to!

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Use 6000k, its blueish color and matches xenon white leds

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I use 6000k, its blueish color and matches xenon white leds.

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Use grommet

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As for installation, mount the ballast in the stock location in the back of the headlight cap and drill small hole to route the wires using a grommet.

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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Hi all Am looking to do an HID headlight retrofit for my 2004 MK2 996. Can anyone recommend a good quality kit that they have successfully used? There are so many dodgy ones floating around makes its hard to decide what to choose. I am leaning towards this one: http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/DD...ast-35W-or-55W Looking at 35w, will I still need a relay? If so, do i need a single or dual relay? Thanks for any help in advance.

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Quotes source post: 12670416

That's the one I would personally go with. I have 3 of their sets on various cars with the longest being 7 years. No relay needed.

POST 3Original post

theres dozens of kits like this, probibly similar quality, youll see most with capacitors in line now to do a instant on for the bulbs, which was a problem when they first came out. The ony hard part is cutting the headlite housing to get the wires in and finding good places to put the ballast

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Quotes source post: 12671375

True but DDM is the distributor to most of the resellers in the US. They keep all the best ones and sell off the b-grade stock. Also they've been in business the longest so you know you won't have any warranty issues. As for installation, mount the ballast in the stock location in the back of the headlight cap and drill small hole to route the wires using a grommet.

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While you're changing to HID, you should changing the parking light to LEDs to!

POST 6 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Thanks alpine for the fast info. Will go with DDM's ultra HID 35w kit @ 4500k and update with results. http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/Ultra-HID-Kit

POST 7Original post

Also check out http://www.theretrofitsource.com/ . Their stuff seems to be higher quality (I've also had DDM in the past)

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I use 6000k, its blueish color and matches xenon white leds. 4500 is probibly white

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Quotes source post: 12672709

+996 to that place as well. They carry some stuff that DDM doesn't too.

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