I hope this is in the right place....i am looking into replacing the stock bulbs on my 2013 focus titanium sedan. i would like something a little brighter/whiter or bluer. so my question is what type of bulb do i need?
headlights?
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I replaced mine with Philips X-treme visions. Can't complain.
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please please please don't just get a PnP hid kit. if you're up for it, retrofit some hid projectors into it. many threads about it, but here's a pic. 250 bucks and some bad ass lighting, totally worth it.
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i just got these are they hard to install? i saw i need to take the head lights out and i am afraid they wont line up the right way again.
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your aiming shouldn't be off from removing the entire headlight assembly to change a bulb. it'd be off if you were say adding hid's, or something else that involves more than untwisting a bulb and twisting a new one in. you should be fine just taking it out, switching bulbs, and screwing it back in
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I used Hella H9 bulbs, modified to fit the H11 socket. It's not too hard, just grind off a tab on the bulb, fits right into the housing at that point. Gives at least an extra few hundred lumens, and they're nice and bright white.
They're not supposed to last as long as a regular H11, but many have found they last longer then a brighter then stock H11 (so inbetween the stock and "ultra bright" H11 options in terms of life). I've had mine for about 6 months so far, so too early to tell for sure.
They're not supposed to last as long as a regular H11, but many have found they last longer then a brighter then stock H11 (so inbetween the stock and "ultra bright" H11 options in terms of life). I've had mine for about 6 months so far, so too early to tell for sure.
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Return them, don't buy a blue tinted bulb.
EDIT: But to change the bulbs you need to take out the headlight, there are two torx screws per headlight. You can actually get them out with a bigger flat head as well.
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Have you noticed any scorching of the reflector? There was a thread a while back where someone put H9s in an MK3 and they started to burn the chrome plastic inside the headlight.
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