Mazda 323F GT

LIGHTS

HID kit been installed replacing a standard H4 bulbs. Kit contains two xennon lamps (Philips), two sets of wires, two boosters (german origin) and two conversion adapters for H4 socket (I think its domestic stuff made here in Belarus). Installation of lamps requires only putting them into conversion adapter and replacing the old halogen H4 by this stuff. Lamps perfectly fits and I see no any problems installing them. Boosters can be placed somewhere near so I decided to put them besides the lamps from inside the body frame.

High-voltage wires goes between radiator and body-frame to the HID lamps and the only thing you need to watch is to mount them properly so they will not interfere to pop-ups movement. Booster block power supply wires connected to the old H4 socket low beam wire. Please pay attention to seal all wires and boosters carefully from water. Also pay attention that you probably will need to replace a standard 10A fuse for the main lights to 15A (mine burned after first switch-on). This is a bit weird because HID kit should really consume only 35W (and standard halogen are 55W). It looks like for the first 5-6 seconds after switching them on, boosters consuming a lot of power to burn the Xennon so initially it's high and then return to 35W.

This kit is for low beam only (it's not Bi-Xennon) so I've connected both high and low beam wires together till I'll find the solution for the high beam lights. This is a minus of this kit however shop advised me not to buy a Bi-Xennon kits due to their poor quality and reliability - better install kit for low beam only (it's also much cheaper) and get a solution for high beams (for example to use a fog-lights).

Also please consider one thing. Legaly HID lamps can be installed only on cars equipped with automatic lights height correction and lamp washers. This is not something strange - I realised it after using HIDs for few month. When your lamps are became dirty, dust on them really diffuse the strong HID light and drivers approaching you immediately start signaling you to switch to low beams... I'd advice to think about installing the washers at least.

Also there is a such called beam temperature for HID lamp. The higher the temp, the more "blue" beam you will see. Normal daylight beam produced by bulb with temp arround 4000K-5000K. This is optimum and lights are really great. Blue ones with temp arround 8000K-9000K are quite useless during rains and snow - hard to see anything really.

Here are lights on, they are the same white colour as snow :)

After almost 3 months of waiting I finally got a cristal clear front lights reflectors and have them installed:

Now after some time the decision was made to switch to BiXenon HID kit.

Kit contains two boosters, two biXenon lamps, two wiring nets.

This kit using the option to move the lamp inside the placeholder.

Boosters being placed at the same places as before under the bonnet.

The big worries I had will the long lamps fits our tight places in a pop-ups. Actually it did fit perfectly leaving a very small gap between the lamp and the car body. Also the original rubber seal been used to cover the lamp leaving only the back of it outside the seal.

The wiring net allows direct connection to the car main lights wires using H4 socket.

The only thing was required to adjust the lights again because the focus is slightly different.

Kira aka Aprilia, 2008