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    Default HID buying advice needed

    Right, a question that's been asken a million times but i'm looking for personal experiences.
    Last night i was driving down a country road and came to realise just how awful the standard headlight are on my SRi. HID time!
    Now, my car is a full canbus 05 SRi so i know i'll have problems with the lights in the first place (warning light etc) and i know i can buy kits for it off the shelf but i'm too much of a tightwad to pay £90 for some thing if i can get it cheaper (the HIDs i had on my Astra coupe i got new for £25 off eBay!).
    So my question is what's the cheapest kit anyone on here has used without any warning lights coming on or any other problems (flicker etc)?

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    you only get what you pay for in my opinion and for service cant beat hids direct ..
    my car is an 08 so full canbus too and got these http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/hid-con...its-p-445.html

    remember to mention vec-c and they will give you 10%off and free next day delivery

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    mines an 05 plate pre facelift so dont know whether its canbus or not but im runninga ebay kit and theres no warning lights at all

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graeme01 View Post
    mines an 05 plate pre facelift so dont know whether its canbus or not but im runninga ebay kit and theres no warning lights at all
    Does your steering wheel have the round buttons on it or the click wheels?

    Also, do you have a link to the seller on ebay?

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    Yo! I just fitted my £38 Ebay hids and £8 error cancellers on a pre-facelift 2004 Half canbus LS and all is good. (after they exchanged a faulty canceller) Think i might need some alignment though as they're pointing a bit at the floor.

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    the ones glen boy fitted that im in the process of fitting at the mo about 40 from ebay plus cancellers 10. i had no end of probs with the hid direct ones. but i think its hit and miss some peoples cars like them some dont!

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    Got mine from www.hids4us.co.uk/h7.htm (the H7 Premium Can-Bus kit ones)

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    i went with these,
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

    then got these to stop warning lights,
    http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/advance...=&inc_subcat=1

    and i cant say ive had any issues

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    Got mine from www.hids4us.co.uk/h7.htm (the H7 Premium Can-Bus kit ones)
    I went with these also, fitted them a couple of weeks ago.

    Absolutely no problems with them so far, and my goodness what a difference.

    Got the 6000k kit, and they look very blue compared to the bulbs i have been using.......which is more a reflection on how watery yellow my lights were before.

    Dont even have to use full beam anymore, even in deepest darkest West Lothian

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