What bulb does the 09 use for the headlight?
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What bulb does the 09 use for the headlight and foglight?
I can't find this info anywhere. Want to get an HID kit for my Fit that should be here in a couple weeks. Also if you know what bulb the fog light uses that would be good to know to. Thanks!
Last edited by bjeong1381; Oct 7, 2008 at 05:18 PM.
Yup - bulbs are 9003/HB2
And yes, pulling fuse 15 kills the DRL's - happily.
I changed out the bulbs to Sylvania Silverstar Ultra's. I can't say what the improvement was because I did it before ever driving the car at night! But I have the standard Silverstar bulbs in the Outback and it was a big improvement.
Overall, I'd say the Fit's headlamps (with Ultra's installed) are very bright, if not casting the white HID glow. Still very good.
And yes, pulling fuse 15 kills the DRL's - happily.
I changed out the bulbs to Sylvania Silverstar Ultra's. I can't say what the improvement was because I did it before ever driving the car at night! But I have the standard Silverstar bulbs in the Outback and it was a big improvement.
Overall, I'd say the Fit's headlamps (with Ultra's installed) are very bright, if not casting the white HID glow. Still very good.
and it was a halogen high and HID low and all the wires were all connected (the high beams that is) so no extending what so ever and I did not lose my DRLs
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Do you like them? I do not want to lose my DRLs either.
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From: Toronto Canada
The set I bought was from a local dealer here in Toronto Ontario it's not a big name company such as Prolumen or anything so I wouldn't know the brand but for now it's pretty good still brighter than halogen IMO but for sure it's aimed lower than my previous car probably because the fit is higher
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Well, there are lighting experts that know more than any of us do about headlights that advise NOT to do HID "conversion" kits in halogen housings. Daniel Stern for one has been a respected source of information for quite a few years online.
Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply
That said, a number of previous-generation Fit owners have installed HID kits and have said they don't have problems with people flashing their brights at them.
I haven't decided yet if I'll make this swap. I'd love to have HID's and the US '09 Fits seem to have pretty good light distribution as DOT reflectors go. But you can't get around the fact that if the housings allow some light above the cutoff which is inevitable, putting more lumens out of an HID capsule will result in more light output above the cutoff. There's also the issues with bixenon kits that you have to disable the DRL's and you'd be wise to not use the flash-to-pass feature very frequently during the daytime as those short on/off cycles are hard on HID capsules.
Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply
That said, a number of previous-generation Fit owners have installed HID kits and have said they don't have problems with people flashing their brights at them.
I haven't decided yet if I'll make this swap. I'd love to have HID's and the US '09 Fits seem to have pretty good light distribution as DOT reflectors go. But you can't get around the fact that if the housings allow some light above the cutoff which is inevitable, putting more lumens out of an HID capsule will result in more light output above the cutoff. There's also the issues with bixenon kits that you have to disable the DRL's and you'd be wise to not use the flash-to-pass feature very frequently during the daytime as those short on/off cycles are hard on HID capsules.
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Yup - bulbs are 9003/HB2
And yes, pulling fuse 15 kills the DRL's - happily.
I changed out the bulbs to Sylvania Silverstar Ultra's. I can't say what the improvement was because I did it before ever driving the car at night! But I have the standard Silverstar bulbs in the Outback and it was a big improvement.
Overall, I'd say the Fit's headlamps (with Ultra's installed) are very bright, if not casting the white HID glow. Still very good.
And yes, pulling fuse 15 kills the DRL's - happily.
I changed out the bulbs to Sylvania Silverstar Ultra's. I can't say what the improvement was because I did it before ever driving the car at night! But I have the standard Silverstar bulbs in the Outback and it was a big improvement.
Overall, I'd say the Fit's headlamps (with Ultra's installed) are very bright, if not casting the white HID glow. Still very good.
Hopefully they will be better.
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From: Dallas, TX
The need to disable the DRL's only comes with bixenon HID kits because the HID ballasts don't work correctly when supplied the lower voltage that the DRL circuit supplies. Some people just dislike DRL's or dislike that they shorten the bulb life (since they constantly run the bulbs) so they'll disable the DRL's even without HID's.
This is all the info you should need and I believe this is a repost.
http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProd...RG-Results.htm
http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProd...RG-Results.htm
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From: Minnesota, USA
just FYI, the DRLs hardly shorten the bulb life or use much extra electricity. Filament bulb life goes up exponentially when the voltage is reduced even a bit, for DRLs, they're reduced about 50%, and can last practically forever. They're a valuable safety feature, and I don't understand why so many people disable them (for bixenon HIDs maybe, but that's a whole different story and you probably shouldn't do it because it may blind oncoming traffic and cause accidents).
