Thanks for a wasted post!

 

He is pretty much right. I have them in my mustang and they got so hot they melted the housing. If your gonna spend the money on the lights spend a few more bucks on the proper housings. In the end the light stream is more focused and provides a more lit roadway and the proper housing also has less tendency to blind oncoming traffic. You don't want to blind the oncoming driver,they might accidentally cross over and turn you into street pizza. Jmo

 

I also put Howards HID kit from motorcyclemetal in my 08 FLHTCU. Adjsted the headlight properly and don't get flashed by oncoming traffic intown, rural or superslab. Still the best mod I've done on the bike. Nightime visibility is unbeleivably better than stock. The only downside is that the headlight is less visible during the daytime to oncoming traffic because the headlight color is a lot whiter light. About the same color as real daylight so it doesn't standout as much as the yellow color of the stock light. The improved nightime visibility makes this an easy trade off for me.

 

LOL. I didn't even own a computer in 1990. Had Al Gore even invented the internet yet?

 

Has anybody else had issues with there passing lamps (HID) melting the housings or getting too hot?

 

There is as large of gap in HID's as there is with anything else comparing one to another. The statement made about comparing car HID left the one bit of information out: The headlight lamp (the silver & glass thing) is much different than the shape of your round H-4. Throw any HID bulb without the mirrored adapter into a square lamp, what would you expect. Put a H-4 bulb into a HD lamp with the adapter to focus the light onto a pre-designed DOT lamp, they will work as per designed parameters.

The people who make those internet comparisons know this and that is why they they do it, to sell their product and slam the competition through mis-information. If the unit is not designed to work with the lamp than it is not acceptable to be installed in a street vehicle.

It is important to think for yourself no matter what you are doing. There are many pictures on this forum showing the light patterns. I remember one member who positioned two identical bikes in front of 2 double wide garage doors which showed the light pattern. Do your own research, trust your own eyes and you will find them identical. Do not quote others if you do not know what is the truth. Just in case everyone does not know, you can not believe everything you read on the internet.

 

The Hella E-code light housings are great. I had one on my FLHR that I sold a few months back, and every car I had that used a sealed beam bulb got upgraded to E code.

Now that I'm on a Road Glide, I found out there used to be an E code housing, but the mothership discontinued them. You can get the Great Britain version, but since they drive on the left, the cutoff is on the wrong side. Would love to find a set for the Road Glide.....

 

I have the E-code headlight on my 2005 Road Glide and a few people who've did the hid swap said the HID's work well with the e-code lens...I have a set of 50 watt 6000k HID's I'm gonna to install soon, I got them from DDM about $50 now that I have installed the newer piece that allows you to replace the bulbs without removing the fairing on my Road Glide.

Anyone with a older Road Glide this is a easy and IMHO a necessary addition to a Road Glide!

 

Know this is a Old post. But you are running a 55/60 watt kit. You are drawing a lot of power from your battery.
The kit I posted draws 35 watt. Much better and don't put the drain on the battery.
And you order it in the K that you want. I also went with the H9 bulb not the H4 buld.
Its brighter.

 

I thought the HID balasts ran cooler than the bulbs? Why is everyone saying there melting there headlight lens.