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hey guys,

i have hid's installed and today as i was coming home i realised the light on the drivers side turned purple. so when i came home i had a look, and i realised when i first turn on the lights its white for a few seconds, but as it heats up it turns purple. the ballast also makes a weird buzzing noise. does this mean its the bulb or the ballast??

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well i didnt install the hid myself. a while ago i needed new headlights, and found ones with the hid kit already installed. all i know is that the ballast is a hyper ray. the bulbs are meant to be white, they always have been and even now the left side is still white.

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Na its just the power running through them when they are turned on. You will always hear it when the car is off. Ive got a set in my ute, skyline and bike. They all do the same thing. Maybe you should try just buying new bulbs if its all of a sudden changing. Bulbs are cheap anyway

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No they buzz when they start up and sometimes a little when they are running. Pull the bulb out it should say on it how many Kelvin it is rated to. as said anything about 5-6000k will have blue or purple tinge. I saw a WRX with 10,000K bulbs which were extremely purple and dull, looked like an idiot really but he thought he was cool....

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Do you have projectors headlights? On reflector headlamps they are very glary and you won't get a good spread. You're better off getting halogen 'blue power' or similar (I got Narva Arctic Plus 50 for the gf's Pulsar, lights are a lot better).

Also the buzzing is because you have a cheap kit. Hell even a Kaixen kit isn't that great (4300K my arse, more like 3800K, takes two minutes to warm up) but doesn't buzz.

If you have projectors, look at getting a $200 kit. TRS kit (from USA) have really short bulbs (good, better spread), but I've had issues with their bulbs not being white enough (their 4300K, they don't have 5000K unfortunately). Warm up time is decent (30s) and their kits are good quality.

Cheap $50 ebay kit won't last long. I've had two sets of ballasts and one bulb die all within 6 months.

Best kit I got was 4 years ago, $200 kit which someone from R31SC sourced, that kit lasted up until my dad blew all fuses and relays in my R31 (3 years of use).

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