HeadLights HID??

[keithsm2]

The service manager told me the headlights are HID.......To me when they shine on the garage door, they seem quite yellowish compared to my other vehicles....maybe its just the heat range of the bulb..... are they really HID??

[acdii]

No they are not HID. HID lights snap on when you turn them on, the regular lights warmup when you tun them on. Thats about the only way I can describe it. The Flex has HID, and they are a blueish white, and when I turn the car in in the garage its like SNAP lights are on full bright, and if I start my Fusion in the garage its like they slowly become full bright and have a yellowish tint.

 

There are after market kits available to exchange out with the factory bulbs, but I dont know how well they work in these lenses. The new Fusion lights arent as bad as the older one, but not as good as the HID in the Flex. They are MUCH better than the old Crown Vic I had, that car had such poor lights I could drive with the high beams on and no one would notice.

[keithsm2]

thats what i thought...much different than the cadillac......not sure why they have the HID look and NOT HID bulbs.

 

Service MGR at first told me that HID would melt the socket....then after looking at the headlights.....told me they were HID...Looks like the lense is made for HID though to me.

[neod192]

Check out the HID conversion guide here: http://www.blueovalforums.com/forums/index.php?/topic/52205-guide-hid-install-2013-ford-fusion-hybrid/

[acdii]

the Fusions from 10 on up use a focused projector lens, same as HID lights do, so a conversion is pretty simple, its the highbeams that can be tricky. Some HID low/high lamps use a motor of some sort to pull/push the bulb back and forth in the housing. Others use a separate bulb outside of the focused lens for the highbeam.

[rico567]

Why would the Flex come with HIDs and the Fusion not?

[acdii]

36K vs 41k?

[expresspotato]

Funny story about my HID kit - so I installed it myself which was absolutely brutal. There were two hidden screws keeping the front end on in the wheel wells.

 

Three hours later I finally got the front end off and the car off but the headlamp assembly has screws underneath it. There is no way to see the two bolts holding the assmembly in place.

 

Long story short - I got the assemblies out and installed the bulbs. About two months later, the right bulb started to turn pink and after looking online its an idicator the bulb is about to go out. The night before a 8 Hour road trip to Chicago it went out.

 

Now I'm going to hit up a repair bay / HID installer to get the bulb replaced. Probably going to replace the right bulb as well because I hear they change colour over time.