HOEN Fogs = WEAK
 

Hey guys,
Thanks for all of your help, I had trouble installing the bulbs.
After the install, Im not really happy with the lighting. Honestly I can't really
tell the difference. Only when I had the stock fog and Hoen on at the same time. I thought it would be more of a blue color. I think I might just sell them, anyone interested?

Chris

Sounds like something could be wrong. There is a clear difference in the Xenonmatch bulbs and the OEM's. You might try posting in the For Sale forum if you want to get rid of them. Good luck.

I just installed a pair of PIAA plasma ion yellow h3's. I am very impressed with the color, looks great against the purple xenon. HIGHLY RECOMMEND

That's surprising. Can you show us some pics?

Must go with HID fog kit if you want a true match with your HID lowbeam.

Concur.

They're certainly not as bright as the true HID fogs with ballasts, and they don't look "blue"; however, they're noticeably different from, and a big improvement over, the OEM fogs. The Hoen Xenonmatch "match" the color of the OEM HID low beams quite nicely, imo.

H3's? I thought the bulbs were H11's?

depends on the year.

Any suggestions? Thanks BreytonX5, wait a min, didnt u get rid of your breytons? Which means new name. haha get with the program.

Check out Xenonfactory, they have HID kit for all sorts of application. You would need the 4300K to match stock xenon headlights.

Yeah no more breytons but still same old breytonX5. HREX5 doesn't sound so good. :)

Are the stock bulb really 4300K? The labels on my lights indicate that they are 3457K.

Halogen is around 3200K. Automotive HID is generally around 4100k so I don't know why yours is 3457K. That's an odd color to me.

I know what you are talking about. I just installed these tonight and although they are "whiter" than stock H3 bulbs (and very much the same as the Silverstar H3 I replaced with these), they are still no where near the xenon headlights. I decided to try these because I have not had much luck with the Silverstars (weak bulb - blow within a year) and by their name I figured they would match the xenons better than the SS's, but they pretty much look the same. Hopefully they will last longer.

Sorry to hear you're not happy with them but they are not xenons and to expect them to perform like HID's is expecting too much. I think the Hoen's are the best of the halogen "xenon look" bulbs. The blue color you ware wanting is not as good as the whiter light.

As Breyton said, if you want HID you've got to get an HID foglight kit.