Digging up an old thread here....
Comments on the A&R HID's. Are you still using them now? Any thing you would suggest or change?
I am unsure if I want to go with LED's or HID's
Comments on the A&R HID's. Are you still using them now? Any thing you would suggest or change?
No, I would not recommend HID conversions without also converting to projector lenses. The light pattern after an HID swap is poor, and although there is more light, it is not much more USABLE light, and there is a lot more scatter to annoy other people.
Digging up an old thread here....
Comments on the A&R HID's. Are you still using them now? Any thing you would suggest or change?
I am unsure if I want to go with LED's or HID's
I do believe that A & R no longer offers the custom C14 kit, but personally I think that that is a good thing. I had more trouble installing that kit even following their directions. It's a rough area to work in from either above or below. It's dark in there and as soon as you put your arm down or up in there your view is blocked. My biggest problem was keeping the various wires from rubbing as you turn the front wheel.
I do not share maxtog's opinion about the light output or the pattern. [...] I think you'll find that most here think the pattern is very good and the light output increased considerably
Got the kit in yesterday and installed it today.
I have not had a chance to actually swap things around to see if I have a bad solenoid or bad wiring yet... it has just been so F'ing *HOT* lately.
I put the A&R kit on '09 Dirty Grrrl back in 2010.
Initially I thought it was great.
So bright, blah, blah....
When you pass semis on the interstate at night and they flood your mirrors with high beams after being overtaken you know the *quality* of all that bright light must not be very good.
While in rural Texas on my way to MotoGP last April (2015), the right bulb failed.
One poorly projected HID does very little to light the road after dark.
Unable to find a replacement I went to the nearest Wally World for honest to goodness H4 bulbs.
I stripped that HID kit off my machine at the campground and have not looked back!
As a side, I notice most say the right bulb fails before the left, be it H4 or HID.
That's how mine go.
Any thoughts?
I tried re-routing from above and it just came unplugged again. When I have more time, I will have to go in through under the nose and try and fix things up. Sigh.
Is it possible that ANYONE on our forum saved the instructions in some form that could be shared? I did some web searching and came up completely blank.
Let me save you a lot of work and heartache. Just get the LEDs (https://www.amazon.com/Evitek-LED-Headlight-Bulbs-Installed/dp/B017M566T4) ..yeah, yeah, I know they
scatter a little, but they are still pretty good compared to many.
OH...wait...my mistake I forgot whom was asking the question. Sorry max', I know there is no way you'd buy those just to save yourself a little work in the future.
OK, here ya go, knock your self out. (sorry about the page breaks in the pictures, I'm sure there is some way to get rid of those, but with free software I don't care)
If you have the original HTML zipped, I would take that too...