Pics or it really didn't happen as they say LOL <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

I have a 97 Montero, so its Gen II. From what I read, the bulbs in the headlights are 9004. Curious why everyone references the H4 bulb or are they the same thing?

Just so we're clear here. What we're talking about doing is illegal from everything I've read...
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/Hid/conversions/conversions.html

(Daniel Stern Lighting is a pretty reputable source of info from everything I've read about the site on various forums.)

That said, I'm still intrigued albeit my interest is definitely tempered by the cost of replacement bulbs. For my Audi they're $75 each <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" /> (albeit I can find them for much less online).

I think that if you need more light than 100w H4's, you should not be driving at night at all, and Pa Jero, if you pull up behind me with mis-aimed Xenons, I've got a .357 with 6 long range dimmer switches, and a jack handle for easy walk up work that doesn't need reloading.

Preach it, brother!

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Eddy, I think you've had enough caffeine for the day don't you? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Seriously though it also irks me when others have a 'I don't care, you're the one that's gonna crash because I've blinded you' attitude also. FWIW, I blind them back with either my brights or my Hella 700's.<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />

Sounds like your compensating for something. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

lets put the guns away boys, like i said above you can buy hid's with a standard bulb for the low and the hid for the hi it is a 2 bulb setup so you could run a 55w silver star for your low which are very nice bulbs and have your hids hi's for out on the dark trail or dark road with no one on it not even eddy with his gat <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> i'll call my old shop and find out the maker of those if anyone is interested

Yes, I am compensating for rude pricks with unaimed or too bright lights... You endanger others, and deserve no compassion or courtesy or slack. I don't need a .357 for you, of course... all I have to do is say, "Poof", and you disappear from my world.

I first heard this method used about 1977-78, heading west from Hobbs, NM, two of us with three repo vehicles. Somewhere east of Midland, TX, the Permian basin is flat as a billiard table where I-10 goes. Some DA trucker with about Pa's level of couth flipped on 4 aircraft landing lights on his front bumper. This was the heyday of CB radio, and immediately several eastbounders complained about having to drive into the equivalent of the sunrise at 10pm with night adapted eyes. No avail. DA's uberlight was more important to him than common courtesy. Then about 1000watts of linear amplified CB boomed, "I have a .357 magnum with 6 long range dimmer switches...", and the sunrise extinguished. Just remember, there is still somebody out there like that when decide it's "their tough luck". Darwin never sleeps.

Think on this. Your ability to see in the dark depends on a chemical called visual violet in the retina. It is destroyed by light, and takes from 30 minutes to two hours to be replenished, so one blast from your HID lights kills someone's night vision for from half an hour to two hours, sometimes more. This endangers their life. This makes the use of the .357 dimmer switch a legal act, does it not?

Sociopathology is contrasurvival, is it not?

Dang Dad, Mom piss in your cereal this morning and then pump you full of LSD?