Has anyone changed their GX 470's lights to HID (xenon lights)? If, so were did you purchase your kit? Thanks.[B]

The H11 HID kit is still in production. I'll keep you posted of any updates I hear about.

MAC

the gx non hid uses a H 11?
or H 1

Yaa Cee Penn Yaa has thm in their latest catalog. Cat # 678J-09-- page 47

I think I found some HID's for the GX. Kinda pricey.

Check them out

http://www.brightheadlights-hid.com/hid-H1.htm

The US GX470 has an H11 bulb in the low beam. It is different from an H1 bulb.

MAC

Those are good prices on HID kits actually, but Mac's right the H1 wont fit.

Thanks for the info.

My question is....a HID is not just a special bulb that can be plugged in? You have to have a ballast and all that other junk in order for the HID's to work?

Anyone can point me to HID's for the GX?

Thanks

Will these work?

http://www.sylvania.com/bin/carApp/carApp_...470&x=19&y=13#1

Yeah but they dont have any specialty lamps in the low beam size.

HID lamps are totally different then halogen lamps because there is no filament, no bulb to speak of. The ballast builds a a spark that creates a circuit, which creates the light.

There are H11 conversion kits out there. Total cost of kit is around $500.00 which included balasts etc. Should fit right into the standard socket and would not alter the focused beams currently used.

Kinda interesting!

H11 HID conversion kit @ Proxenon

Maybe it is me but from that picture it is just a cheapass POS rebase kit which needs to be modified to fit with another bulbs base. A complete waste of time.
$5000 that is the most rediculas price for any hid kit unless it was a full oem kit with headlights and levelers

[Maybe it is me but from that picture it is just a cheapass POS rebase kit which needs to be modified to fit with another bulbs base. A complete waste of time.
$5000 that is the most rediculas price for any hid kit unless it was a full oem kit with headlights and levelers]

Hey Now....

$500.00 (five hundred) not $5,000.00 (five thousand). Do you have enough expertise in HID lighting to trash this system? If you do, share a solution

Sorry my bad i read it as 5000 as you noted . 50 is still too high.
I have a set of plug and play hid's on mine and have sold and installed over 15 sets that are also plug and play the rebased ones should cost no more than 300 canadian as they are way too much work to put in . They where originally designed for motorcylces with weird bulbs. There are simpler solutions to get hid's . Definatly not for 500 usd 500 canadian is a more reasonable price ,but i have not priced the US market ones now that they are illegal to sell.

Turns out ProXenon.com had some problems for those GX470 owners that ordered the H11 retrofit kit. The bulb fits everything but the Asian vehicles, Including Lexus.

They have rectified the situation and are using a different configuration for the bulb that will slide though the smaller opening.

I will be ordering mine next week...

http://clublexus.com/forums/showthread.php...1962#post811962

'Just installed them today. They look great on black cars.

E

I installed my lights bought from www.xenondepot.com They were more than $500 US. They were pretty easy to install. Here is a pic of my GX with the kit. They look better than most OEM lights out there.

I just installed HID kits for both the low and high beam. I purchased them at www.superhids.com for only $300.00 per kit! They were easy to install without any problems and I highly recommend them. If you get the high beams, remember not to use them to "flash" people as this will shorten the life span of the bulbs. It took about 10 days to get the kits. I will try to post some pictures this week.

TimGX470 and cyberflip9:

Great info on the HID conversion kits. Some quick questions..

What version of the xenon bulbs did you purchase (5300K, 6000K, 8000K, 10000K)???

Did the kit you used require you to remove the factory headlamp connector or did it provide an adapter???

Did the kit include a ballast??? If it did, how large was it???

Thanks in advance...

Hello Everyone!! Sorry it has taken so long to reply! First, I live in a rural area in New Mexico and I drive quite a bit at night in areas where there is not a lot of traffic and I use the HID highs!! It does a bit of time to light up, but when they do ...man are they bright and worth it!!!!!!! If you do lots of night driving in rural areas I highly recommend upgrading the High Beams. I am attaching a few pictures to show the light in action. I will take pictures of my install this week and try to post them in the next few days. The installation was a snap - I spent more time getting the shroud off than actually putting the kits in. There is no wire cutting and the everything you need is included. I will put together a detailed install post complete with pictures. Let me know if you have any other questions!!

Another Picture

Another Picture

I forgot to let you know the colors! Low Beam & High Beam - 5300K.

Yep. A little too green for me too. BTW, can you post it without the Hi beam on?

Thanks!

Try www.xenondepot.com. They have them for about 550. Easy to put in from waht i hear. Will be doing it myself - WD

It only looks green in the picture because I had not let the bulbs warm up yet! They are super white - I promise!! If you look at this picture, you will notice they are white! I will take some new pictures with just the low beam on. I only paid $300.00 for my low beam kit and Chris at superhids.com was easy to deal with. I could not get anyone at xenondepot.com to answer any of my questions. Please let me know if you have any specific questions.
Thanks

Install pictures!!!!

More pictures!!

And more.......

And more......

The only thing I did to the adapter that came with the kit was to file off the tab so it would fit the OEM plug easier. It was not as near complicated as the kit in the link. The only thing I had to do was remove the old light bulb, put in the new HID bulb and connect it to the leads on the ballast and then plug in the OEM adapter to the ballast and turn it on. I am leaving on a trip but when I get back I can post some pics of the adapters and connections. I took a long look at the other kits available, but could not justify spending an extra $250 for it!!! The ballast are of a better quality in aluminum housing instead of plastic and they come with long leads for the ignitors. The warranty is really good and the customer service was far better. It did take about 14 days to get the H11 kit as it was a special order. Total time to install the kits was about 1 hour (low and high). If you were to run into problems with the install, I would not mind helping you out! I can email anyone detailed pictures and instructions of how I put the kit in.

It depends on what you are looking for. I purchased HID so I can see better, not look cool going down the street. That is why I purchased the 5300K kit - it produces more lumans than a 8000 or 10000. It produces a very bright white light - not one with green in it as people are saying my pictures are. It is difficult to tell the color of a picture on a monitor becuse they are all calibrated differently! If you want a very blue to purple light - get a higher kelvin color kit and just because it costs more does not mean it is better. I was just trying to save people some money and time. Look at the posts where people are still waiting for their kits from xenondepot.com.

Take a look at this picture. It all depends on where the camera is placed during the picture.

It's interesting how popular the subject of HIDs seem to be. I had a GS400 and currently have a ES330 with HIDs. The GX headlights, with the driving lights on, seem to be quite adequate to me. Sometimes I think the HIDs are more impressive coming at you than sitting behind them, IMHO. Maybe the night driving conditions are much different in other parts of the country. Seems that it was Consumer Reports that dinged the HIDs because of the sharp cutoff of light and lack of range. Should I duck now or later???

!!!!Avoid Proxenon.com!!!
They are a bunch of scammers working out of a PO Box.
It took 2 months of constantly calling them before I finally got my kit.
The owner, Joey, initially came up with excuses left and right and then just got downright nasty and rude. Had to eventually threaten to call cops.
Did some research and found that they regularly pull this stunt all the time. They have a really bad record with the Better Business Bureau. <url>http://www.bbbsouthland.org </url>

Avoid Proxenon. They have a tendency to rip people off. They took over 2 months to ship my kit. They gave me the runaround until I finally threatened to call the cops. A quick search on other forums found that they pull this stunt all the time.

They have a very bad record with the Better Business Bureau:

http://www.bbbsouthland.org/

Go and check it out before they scam you too!

Hello! I have been out of town and just got back. I will try to take some pictures of the adapter.
Thanks in advance!

TimGX470:

Nice HID's! I just bought the same kit from Superhids.com for my 04 Acura MDX because of your posts.

Can you post some pictures of the bulb? I wanted to know if my bulbs look like yours. The rebased portion of the bulb looks like low quality compared to my other HID kit I had on my 03 MDX.

Thanks.
David

Is xenondepot still the best for HID these days? I have a 2007 GX that I'm thinking of modifying it with HID. I'm not certain which items I need to order from xenondepot website, please help.

thanks!

The xenon depot kit comes with the harness already, so all you need is the xtreme kit. As far as which kit is the best, xenon depot use a potted ballast which is waterproof. Philips is the best in my opinion, very bright natural light. It really depends on what you are looking for, brighteness? or cool looking color? The bluer the light, the less light output. Also the GX doesnt need a wire harness if you buy quality ballast that draws less than 10 amps on start up, Philips and McCullon makes these ballast and I dont know who else.