This wasn’t my first attempt to add aftermarket HID lighting to my 2004 BMW K1200LT. Last spring I fell for a “too good to pass up” $129.99 eBay conversion kit sold by CQ Lighting (similar kits can be ...

Our Fox Mustang is a worn-out 30-year-old magazine project car. It needs obvious upgrades like paint and body, plus less tangible items like a total upgrade of all lighting; both interior and exterior ...

A key advantage of high intensity discharge (HID) headlights, apart from the hike in brightness over halogen systems, is that they can last up to 10 years. This means the early cars to use gas ...

Best price: £59.99 Beam: 230.5 Halfords’ HID Xenon Bulbs suffered from the same problem as their Ring rivals, with different lamps provided in identical packaging. Again, it was an Alite bulb in one ...

Reliably generating light with the limited resources at a car’s disposal was a problem for early automotive engineers. Tungsten filaments, similar to the kind found in household incandescent light ...

When it comes to headlight bulbs, there’s a big gulf between the latest LED and high-intensity discharge (HID) or xenon units and halogen bulbs, which have been around in various forms for nearly 60 ...

Before going into exterior lighting solutions for all things automotive, it's necessary for us to remember that – in the olden days of black and white everything – horse-drawn carriage lamps used ...

The “Bikemaster” brand HID headlight kit is available in several different bulb types. We installed the H4 kit on the Suzuki DR650 (blog) but the steps are the same for every bike. The HID bulb posed ...