| Author | Message | ||
     Ochoa0042 |
I was taking apart of the faring and found a few things were damaged in the light assembly.... and they will be replaced under that factory recall, but thats neither here nor there.... Would it be a bad idea to take-out the low-beam shroud so that both lights are the same (highs)....?  | ||
| H2owerker |
"Would it be a bad idea to take-out the low-beam shroud so that both lights are the same (highs)....?" Yeah...thats bad emkaay... | ||
| Midknyte |
And that would not make them the same anyway. The high beam cone is shaped differently. | ||
| Nillaice |
yeah, high beams are not good in fog/rain mist. your gonna wanna keep a lowbeam.  and if you always have your high beams on, it really pisses off the person in front of you. (do you ride behind any one you like?) | ||
| Buelltroll |
Do it It helps Ive been running 2 highbeam assemblies for years now. | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
yea, at the time I wasnt thinking about life situations.. I just have really crappy lights and need more luminescence!!! | ||
| Nillaice |
HID kit or starlight bulbs? | ||
| Rsh |
I have the "recall headlights" and after adjusting them according to the service manual the low beam seems to have descent light output, I very rarely have to run the high beam. I think the new recall low and high beam light patterns are kind of strange, I have not decided if that is good or bad at this point, I am just happy that there is light when compared to the degraded originals. | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
Nillaice, how big is the HID bulb? is it an easy installation? Rsh, sounds reasonable.... | ||
| Bombardier |
If you polish the spoon the low beam improves slightly. | ||
| Nillaice |
 but it is all the rage with kids nowadays. from what i hear the bulb isn't the biggest part, it's an amplifier or something.... will someone who has actually done this mod chime in here and shed some light on this? | ||
| Bombardier |
Have HIDs and they work well.........too well! My neighbor is a Traffic Cop and gave me a subtle hint to take them off. He is a hell of a nice guy and as I have stopped braving the wildlife at night I got rid of them. No troubles with burnt wiring that others have experienced, just really white clear vision on the road. | ||
| Punkid8888 |
HID best mod yet | ||
| Moosestang |
Why not 2 low beams? | ||
| Xbrfirebolt |
I thought by the title this was another ladies on motorcycles thread. My bad. | ||
| Firebolt32 |
I'm running to high beam housings as well. Didn't feel like dropping the cash for the HID set up yet. My low beam housing was cooked a bit and the whole "spoon" piece that blocks have the light really didn't make sense to me. I replaced it with a high beam housing and a couple hyper white bulbs and it's a much noticable difference. Few said I'd blind on comers but I've yet to have anyone flash their lights. I've been running it this way for about 8 months. And Midknyte is exactly right...the housings are shaped differently. Low beam is more of an oval to where the high beam is a perfect circle. (Message edited by firebolt32 on November 22, 2008) |
