Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior Are my lights HID?

Sorry for the Noob question but I think I might have the stock HID headlights. They seem brighter then normal and really white. My car is a 2004. Is there any way to tell for sure?

post a picture, maybe?

take a picture of the headlight. i think the bulge on the headlight is bigger for the HIDs.

do you have the headlight angle thingy ont he bottom left of ur dash next ot the door. has the 1-like 9 roller dial. i belive only the hids hav ethat, i knwo mine does. also does your headlight hosuing bubble look bigger than most. finally, look under the hood at hte driverside light, behind it where you normally change the bubls. is tere a large black hosing so you cant change out your lows and high beams? it hink other than pics that woudl be ir best way to tell. also tunr them on after being off for a while. are the intiially very blue then fade whiter?

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right below the round projector, is there a silver piece with multiple round holes in it? if so, then you have factory HIDs. Since you have the 04 GTS with an Action Package, I think the HIDs are next to standard with your options. I am 95% sure you have HIDs.

those are not HID's.

Sorry but you dont have hid, the hid headlight housings are black and your are clear.

not hids

sorry bro, look at my profile, you can see the differnt size and color housing it is dark gray ribbed and a bigger bubble. But ur luck yin the fact that you can get trd eyelids whereas i cant same with bluebad vinyls

didnt ur headlights coem painted to match your exterrior? all the celicas at the lot with that kid had painted headlights. maybe it was jsut wierd.

nope. no hid there.. the bulge too small for one thing...

haha watever they said...

yup, he's right!!!

^^ right..


and nope not hid's.. but here read the quick right up i did on stock vs hid headlamps.. read the captions so you don't get them mixed up..

https://celicahobby.com/ubbthrea...&PHPSESSID=

i should make a better one

hid's are not an option if you have the action package for some reason

they are with the 03's Both of my clicas had them...

yes it is. just went to a dealer to pick up some clips, they've a 05' action pack with HID...

all this time i thought i had hids why does that beam of light shine horizontal like that reg headlights dont do that

the horizontal is due to the projection lends infront of the bulb. Even some hid cars dont have that horizontal, if htey dont have projeciton, liek the last models of acura, had hid but no projection.

^^Because celicas use projectors headlights which give that effect.

u can buy my HID's to replace what you have

anyone know what K the stock hids run at ? 4300?

more info on real hid's
https://celicahobby.com/ubbthreads/thread.f_252822_0_collapsed_5__1.html
read Tony's reply

all stock hid applications typically run between 4100K and 4300K and the nice color you see isn't due to the bulb but actually on the design of the projector

yup all projector. if you see some acuras fomr last model line they have hid no projector, so you see jsut a nice bluewhite. but looks liek aftermarket zenons jsut brighter

I don't have HID headlights but my headlights are angled really, really low to the ground. I can literally only see like 4 feet in front of my car on level ground. Is this normal? Can/will the dealership reangle them for me? I'm sick of having to turn on my high beams all the time.