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<h4>300C HID Fog Lamp Conversion</h4>
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My HID fog light (9005, 4300k) kit arrived from Factor One today. I installed it this afternoon in about an hour. Most of that time was spent scratching my head trying to figure out where to mount the ballasts.
First impressions (it's still daylight out):
-Kit is of good quality, but includes absolutely no installation suggestions
-Stock bulb connector fits perfectly into connector on this kit
-The color is a much closer match to the stock HID headlamps
-The bulbs fit perfectly in the stock housing
-No error lights on dash cluster
-Still appears to have the same nice vertical cutoff as the stock bulbs
-More glare due to not having a painted tip like stock 9005 bulbs (will test the full extent of this at night)
The install wasn't too bad, but I'm not exactly proud of it... It's not one of my cleanest installs, but all sins are hidden by the big plastic panel underneath the car. I mounted the passenger side ballast to a hole that I found up near the windsheild washer reservoir with a nut/bolt. This provided a very secure mounting point, and it didn't interfere with anything else. I had to get a little more creative with the driver side. It would have been much simpler if the same hole I used for the passenger side had existed on the driver side. No such luck. I wound up using two sheet metal screws and tapping them into the "ear drum" for the intake. I mounted the ballast directly to the side of the ear drum. Both ballasts have a second "high voltage" box inline with the wiring. I bolted that box to the third hole on the ballast on both sides, and then zip tied all of the wires out of the way.
Here are some pics (before I cleaned up the wires). These show the difference between the stock halogen fog, and the 4300k HID from Factor One. It also shows my mounting location for both ballasts.
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