If you are debating whether to buy HID or LED headlights, this guide will help you compare your options and select what fits your needs. Headlights are crucial for a car driver as well as other road ...

High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting does not use the filament that is commonly found in normal automotive or motorcycle light bulbs. Instead, the bulb is filled with Xenon gas. The gas is ignited ...

Siemens VDO Automotive claims that its innovative high-pressure washer system allows original equipment manufacturers to use Xenon and high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting and meet European ...

This wasn’t my first attempt to add aftermarket HID lighting to my 2004 BMW K1200LT. Last spring I fell for a “too good to pass up” $129.99 eBay conversion kit sold by CQ Lighting (similar kits can be ...

This blog post has been updated since its first publication to clarify when it is legal and illegal to have HID headlights. Barb VanWinkle of Everett writes: “When driving at night, more and more I ...

When it comes to headlight bulbs, there’s a big gulf between the latest LED and high-intensity discharge (HID) or xenon units and halogen bulbs, which have been around in various forms for nearly 60 ...

A halogen bulb is similar to an electric bulb found in any household. But while your regular bulb has a filament (small wire) that heats up and emits light, the halogen lamp uses halogen gas to ...

Thanks to the mass-adoption of LED and HID headlights on passenger cars, the roads at night have become an ever-brighter and paradoxically increasingly dangerous world. Whether it's people who leave ...

Nothing changes your perspective on nighttime wheeling or even just driving down paved roads like a good set of lights. And unless you’re driving a brand new $50,000 4x4, your factory lights suck in ...