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Re: Headlight thread
Like I said though, at this stage HIDs have no place anywhere, it's the plasma TV of the automotive lighting world. It'll be completely obsolete and just a strange retro oddity in a few years. It was a heavily marketed product that's real purpose was to allow engineers to reduce headlight size and frontal area and make housings out of injection moulded low temperature composites. Even implimented correctly it has all sorts of issues, bad color, slow starting, no real focus point. Projectors were just a way to resolve the issues of what is really a poor automotive lighting source. HID is rapidly disappearing as an OEM lightsource, and I would be very surprised if it were available on any new car by the end of the decade.
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