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01-23-2007, 11:26 AM

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I ordered H11s and 9006s for my wife's MDX.

You are referring to the angel eyes and yes, a lot of us replaced them with whiter and brigher bulbs from one of three companies: CustomAngelEyes (AngeliBright), Umnitza (Predator Ice), or PIAA. I have the AngeliBright v1.0 and will probably upgrade to v2.0 which is coming out next month...supposed to be twice as bright as v1.0. You can see in Cman's signature that there's a group buy for those bulbs right now.

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01-23-2007, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Torquey5' post='382299' date='Jan 23 2007, 02:56 PM

Hey did you guys order the H7s?

Also, when the fogs are changed to match the regular xenons, they're all bright white, but then there's the rings which are still stock ambery. Do you guys just leave it alone or changed that too?

Hey Dan - Take a look at my sig. Notice anything new and obnoxious? Hahaha! There's a group buy for the new angel eyes that are twice as bright as version 1.0, which ECF currently has. This is what you want. So go ahead and click on the "buy now" and add your name to the list. Come on buddy. You totally could use them.

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01-23-2007, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by cmansbimmer' post='382325' date='Jan 23 2007, 03:40 PM

Hey dude, yeah i've noticed the big red banner and read it. I'm going to wait until the meet and check them out in person before making a final decision. But for now I guess I can work on the fog lights.

So you guys ordered H11s for the E60 fog lights?

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01-23-2007, 12:57 PM

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01-23-2007, 01:43 PM

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im with cman, i wonder how the titanium bulbs would look. was about to order mine, but i'll wait a lil more and see. on a side note, my mom has a MDX and this is great that ECF u've bought these bulbs for that car. now are you using these lights as both headlights and fogs?

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01-23-2007, 02:55 PM

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To clarify, my wife has a 2004 MDX, not the newest one. The older MDXs didn't have HIDs and instead of doing a full HID conversion, I just went for the xenon-look bulbs. I used to have bulbs from SupremePowerParts.com but they just recently burned out (after about 2 years of use). Those bulbs were white but I wanted a bit more hint of blue so I figured the 4300K rating on the Hoen Titaniums would do the job. H11 for the headlights and 9006s for the foglights.

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01-23-2007, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by elyk' post='381954' date='Jan 23 2007, 03:57 AM

after reading the DIY on changing the fogs, i have decided to try it myself soon. after i get the bulbs that is, however, i am unclear of which brand to use. i know of some really inexpensive bulbs but was told piaa was the way to go. now i read some where that people tried using silverstars? jus assking for some comments about the difference in silverstar vs piaa for the fogs.

PIAA is what I have and it blinds @ 4700K, I use it also for emergency as more K than my bi-xenons lol

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