Thinking about trading in the CR-Z for a Fiat 500 Abarth, thoughts?

**DetailKitty** · 10-19-2017, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by derek0609

I’m just over 3000 miles away from 50K on my 6. I’ve done some driving in the past 26 months considering I bought the car with 8 miles on her.

Holy cow that's a lot in 26 months!

**Bruno Soares** · 10-19-2017, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by Klasse Act

So I was leaving work yesterday, it was dark because it was a 10.5 hour day, and I noticed my p/s headlight was out. Well I'm the kinda guy who upgrades whenever possible, so I did just that. I got home and got on the computer and went to 500Madness and ordered myself a 5000K HID headlight kit from them. Our community isn't very big but these guys make special parts for these cars, so its not as cheap as other kits but its a quality kit, plug and play and is completely covered by a factory style'd cap, so no moisture gets in there. I went with 5000K to give it a little more "look" than the an OEM kit which is 4300K. I've seen nice 6000K kits but played it down the middle with the 5000K kit. Now I just hope it arrives soon because we've been busy at work and I don't like "ridin' dirty", LOL.

Was it HID from factory? Conversion kits are nice but often blind everyone because the HID capsules were not made to be used in a housing designed for halogen bulbs. And it's illegal but I have yet to hear of anyone being pulled over for having lights that are so bright drivers ahead of them can't see anything. But if you had HID there already and just replaced with a different temperature that's fine. 5000K sure looks better than 4300K but it produces less usable light. Back in the day when I was into messing with upgrades on my cars I had one kit installed that was 8000K. Very blue. Probably blinding everyone ahead of me. But I didn't know better then.

**DetailKitty** · 10-19-2017, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by BSoares

Back in the day when I was into messing with upgrades on my cars I had one kit installed that was 8000K. Very blue. Probably blinding everyone ahead of me. But I didn't know better then.

You were THAT GUY that I probably wanted to kill LOL

**Klasse Act** · 10-19-2017, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by BSoares

Was it HID from factory? Conversion kits are nice but often blind everyone because the HID capsules were not made to be used in a housing designed for halogen bulbs. And it's illegal but I have yet to hear of anyone being pulled over for having lights that are so bright drivers ahead of them can't see anything. But if you had HID there already and just replaced with a different temperature that's fine. 5000K sure looks better than 4300K but it produces less usable light. Back in the day when I was into messing with upgrades on my cars I had one kit installed that was 8000K. Very blue. Probably blinding everyone ahead of me. But I didn't know better then.

I have projectors halogens from the factory so because of the cutoff i should be fine and besides, 5000K is still going to be better than oem bulbs.

Those 8000+K bulbs are the worse, has to almost NO light output and just brings unwanted attention on to you!

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**Klasse Act** · 10-22-2017, 03:35 PM

12 total days for my HID to get from Carson CA to Chicagoland. I've been checking the status and it's made a stop in CA, AZ, NM and KS. Talk about the slow boat from China, what did my $12.99 go for? I didn't see an option for quicker delivery, maybe I'll ask next time. I hate leaving work when it's basically dark and only have 1 headlight

Thinking about trading in the CR-Z for a Fiat 500 Abarth, thoughts?

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**DetailKitty** · 10-23-2017, 09:45 AM

I hate when I pay for shipping and it’s super slow!

Originally Posted by Klasse Act

12 total days for my HID to get from Carson CA to Chicagoland. I've been checking the status and it's made a stop in CA, AZ, NM and KS. Talk about the slow boat from China, what did my $12.99 go for? I didn't see an option for quicker delivery, maybe I'll ask next time. I hate leaving work when it's basically dark and only have 1 headlight

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**WillSports3** · 10-26-2017, 05:04 PM

Roger, the bugs on the front butt comment just killed me.

**Klasse Act** · 10-26-2017, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by WillSports3

Roger, the bugs on the front butt comment just killed me.

I do not even remember what I said

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**WillSports3** · 10-26-2017, 05:31 PM

This hahaha

Originally Posted by Klasse Act

...more from Day 1 (ohhhh the bugs on the front butt) I did wash it yesterday when I got in

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**Klasse Act** · 10-26-2017, 05:40 PM

I guess I should've went back a bit further. I will say this again, they came right off with the Worx hydroshot, only 320 psi max.

In other news:

MY HID KIT CAME IN TODAY