HID Kit Review

At first, I was pretty skeptical of these cheap kits because I have tried them before, and they've always ended up burning out quick, not fitting correctly, or blinding the crap out of everybody on the road. Seeing as how AKman was starting to sell these, I decided to give it another chance. I messaged louisianaAKman and proceeded to order a kit from him.

I ordered a 9006 bulb kit with the 6k color temperature. After I ordered, I realized that my truck uses a 9005 bulb and not a 9006. Crap. I figured that instead of cancelling or changing the order, I'd tell my girlfriend that I bought her a new light kit for her car.

After ordering, it took about a week to get the kit to my doorstep. When I first opened the box, I was kind of disappointed. I was sent an 8000k bulb temperature instead of the 6000k. (It makes a big difference if you're trying to stay with a white light as opposed to a blueish tint light.) I messaged akman and told him about it, he told me to go ahead and ship it back to him and he'll refund me the cost of shipping it back to him. (How's that for customer service?) I told him not to worry about it and shipped the bulbs back to him.

AKman got in touch with his vendor and they worked something out because within a week, I got the correct set of bulbs. I just got done installing the kit which took about 30 minutes.

The install consisted of:

• Mounting a bracket for the ballast
• Attaching the ballast to the bracket
• Removing your existing bulb
• Installing the new HID bulb
• Plugging the ballast to the plug that went into your regular halogen bulb
• Aiming your headlights if necessary

The lights fired right up and gave out a nice white color while putting down a nice beam on the pavement instead of being all scattered around. I will definitely purchase another kit from West Monroe Bedliners and Truck Accessories. I may buy one in a 4300k however, because that supposedly gives off the best usable light.

Below is my rating of the kit - 1 being the lowest quality and 5 being very qood quality. I will come back and rate again after I have used the kit for a few months.

Overall kit - 4 - Not the best looking kit I've seen out there, but only time will tell if it performs.
Bulbs - 4 - Again, doesn't look like factory HID bulbs, but not bad for rebased bulbs
Ballast - 3 - Looks kind of cheap, not sure if waterproof/water resistant, but again time will only tell.
Wires - 4 - Nice gauge wire inlcluded, shouldn't burn up wires with regular use.

On a side note, old HID kits used to run both bulbs off of one ballast, which put alot of stress on your headlight harness, which required you to make a relay harness to safely use it. The newer kits today give each bulb its own ballast, which reduces current draw on your headlight harness and should stop your wires from frying.