Hey guys, Andrew Esquivel here back with another review.
Today, I'm going to be reviewing the Kensun Bi-Xenon HID conversion kit to convert your
halogens into HIDs.
Now, I did review a Kensun HID kit before, and it was a 35-watt kit.
It was a single Xenon with a halogen in there.
The halogen was the low beam, in this case, the high beams and the low beams will be a
form of HID.
I'm not going to open the box because I already have all of this laid out.
You see there are a lot of wires.
Now, it looks a little intimidating at first, but going through the instructions and figuring
things out, it's really not all that much more complicated than the original kit.
Basically, you just hook everything up here and the only real difference is, the ballasts.
Well, not the ballasts themselves, but the connection here, that goes all the way to
this controller unit which for whatever reason we need a special controller unit for this
set we'll be connecting to the battery.
We've got per bulb, two negative terminals, they get connected to the battery.
We also have one positive terminal that goes to the battery and it's got a fuse built into
it, and you see the wire is red, it will be pretty easy to identify.
These are simple, you just undo the bolts and you slide this in where the bolt goes
and you put the bolt back in, not a big deal.
Now, you look at this mishmash of wires and something I like to call tech spaghetti because
well, it's a bunch of wires going everywhere made of copper here.
One interesting thing right away is, there is only one connection for the headlights
for the 9007 socket here.
I don't know why there's not two, but maybe that's just how this thing is designed, because
I don't see anything extra here.
Really quick, let's go over the specs here.
Once again, we're working with the infamous 9007 socket which is known to have compatibility
issues with aftermarket products.
Hopefully, maybe this kit is a bit better than the last kit I tried.
Once again, we're using Bi-Xenons instead of a single xenon and a halogen.
Each bulb holds 35 watts, the color temperature is 6,000K and there's no real information
in terms of how many illumines this particular product outputs.
It's got I believe a two or three-year warranty on the kit.
Now that we got the specs out of the way, let's actually talk about the bulb.
I'm going to be careful not to touch the bulb here.
You'll notice right away, this one is very different compared to the one we were working
with before.
Because the other one had a big bulbous halogen in the middle and it was really weird-looking.
That halogen they got in the middle, blocked out a bunch of light in certain directions
which gave us a patchy lighting.
That's what that looks like.
I want to slide the shroud on over this, it doesn't have a fancy plastic cover like the
other one did.
It's just a foam cover but hey, whatever works, works.
We got three connections here, one connection goes to the ballast, the other connection
goes to the controller.
It's the same thing over here.
Well, we've already gone over what controller goes to, controller connects to the battery,
and then we have the 9007 connection that goes into your factory wiring harness.
Now, anyone who's got a 9007 vehicle knows that they need to be able to get a circular
retainer lock-on, in order for the bulb to actually stay in place.
Now, this is where a lot of problems come in, especially when you have a big bulbous
thing in the back here, whether it's an LED or in this case an HID, and you wonder, "Well,
how the heck do I get the retainer lock on because it's not going to fit to over that?"
They thought of that and it's very simple.
This gasket here if you twist it clockwise, it will come off, I really don't want to touch
the bulb right now, but if you twist it clockwise it comes off and comes out the top and then
you would slide the circular retainer lock back on, and then you will put the gasket
back in and lock it in place.
To show you what that looks like, we've already got one done over here.
This is completely unmodified.
Thankfully, this kit is plug and play with a lot of LEDs the heat sink gets in the way
and I have to modify the circular retainer lock.
But, this shouldn't be all that difficult to install.
It's just going to be a bunch of mish-mashed wires everywhere.
Nevertheless, we got to give it a shot.
So, let's do it.
As you see, we've got the headlights working, but the way this is designed is got me a little
concerned here.
The instructions said to connect the controller to the terminals of the battery, positive
and negative.
One thing really quick, this ballast right here, 35-watt ballast, connects to this wire
right here which goes around and connects to the terminal here.
But, if we go all the way over here where the other ballast is around this wire is just
not nearly long enough to connect to where they told me to connect it to.
For right now, this is a temporary fix.
We have just a good old wire that I found connected where everything needs to be.
Now, I suspect that these may actually just be grounding wires even though they're telling
me to plug it into the battery.
But, because they're plugged into the battery, they don't turn off.
I suspect the controller was supposed to be able to tell the lights to turn off.
For whatever reason, they didn't.
Granted the computer just reset.
Let's take this jerry-rigged configuration out on the road for a minute just to gauge
and see what might be going on here.
Luckily, it was just an issue with the computer for a minute being first installed and the
lights just turning on, the controller getting worked on or whatever.
Thankfully, yes it does turn off when the car turns off and I can turn them off with
my light switch here.
There's no need to worry, I've already turned the car on and off and it does definitely
turn off when I exit the vehicle which is what this car is designed to do with its headlights.
This is the kind of beam pattern we get with the low beams, and if we go on high beams,
it's a bit brighter, beams are patchy on the wall right here.
There is a slight flicker, but I want to say that's probably due to the jerry-rigged configuration
we have, to make sure we get that one wire going as far as we need it to go to connect
to the battery terminal.
We're not just going to sit here and do this, we're going to go on the road, go in our usual
path and see how well they perform for real.
We're on the same road that I always test every single bulb on.
We're going to go down the same route that I always go on, for every single bulb that
I test.
But first, let's talk about the light itself.
The light on the street is actually, relatively good diffusion.
It's just slightly above patchy which is acceptable.
You might be able to see there's some flickering on like we've seen before.
I really want to say that's due to that really poorly done jerry-rigged just to make this
work for right now.
But this is low beams, let's see what high beams do.
High beams are a little disappointing here, we got this weird X pattern going on which
unfortunately, is the same problem we had with the single xenon kit.
The high beams in this reflector system in my car, low beams, high beams, low beams,
I'm going to let this guy go in front of me here, and then high beams.
Well, granted yes the high beams do allow me to see further down the road, it doesn't
really feel like it's properly diffused.
It's patchy.
Once again, there are the weird X configuration is kind of strange.
Let's go down the road and see how everything works in the real world.
Driving down the road and we just have a few street lights that they don't really do much
of anything.
I don't even know [laughs] we have them.
Sorry, my camera cut out for just a second there.
Any who, we're continuing driving down and we're going to head towards that spot where
there's no external light from the street lights whatsoever.
Right now, we're on high beams, go back to low beams.
High beams, low beams and you know what?
Because these are Dual xenons, there's no warm up time between low beam and high beam
because they're just warmed up from the get-go.
It looks like it's the same sort of filament or whatever it might be.
I'm not sure exactly what it's called, but switching back and forth is really quick on
this.
I'm still not sure how I feel about this works in my reflector unit here.
We are on the road that I always test all this stuff on.
This is completely dark, no assisted light.
Let's just sit here for a second.
This is low beam in the darkest area I can find.
This is high beam.
High beam is really not impressive.
Low beam, high beam.
You can tell there's some sort of physical switch going on inside, you can hear it.
Just going to drive over the low beams.
The high beams, maybe you can see a little bit further down the road but it's not readily
apparent.
That X-pattern is so obvious when you're driving to the point where it's almost annoying.
We are going to go down another road where I'm going to switch back and forth between
while I drive.
We are going to do that, what I do with all the bulbs.
HIDs are more power efficient than halogens, requires all those different units to make
everything work.
More or less everything works fine, it's just the performance that I get a little concerned
about.
I'm going to turn down this road that I always turn down.
Here, it's also dark so I'm going to switch between the two.
This is low beam, high beam.
We got a good general sense of what it's doing here.
Although the kit itself is pretty easy to install.
Minus a little bit of tweaking around, getting that one connection to fit all the way over
to that battery, which boggles my mind that the wire was so short if that's what they
want you to do but turning back in here for a moment.
Let's go over my final synopsis of this bulb really quick.
Too many people have you looking at a wall like this and they say, "Oh, look at the beams.
It's so much brighter".
They don't go driving down the road like I do to show you what it's like, it's annoying.
Another thing about this kit is it's making me rev a little lower, which is interesting
because it's supposed to be using less power.
35-watts per ballast.
Another thing is weird is it's only using one of the power inputs from the 9007 socket,
which is weird because the other ones, they used both.
Obviously you can see here, the setup works, it's just not all that great.
Once again the high beams, when you look at it on a static wall like this, sure it looks
great.
But when you're driving down the road it doesn't throw the distance of the light much further.
Even then, it's not a concentrated light down the road like it's supposed to be.
It's all just random and everywhere and that X-pattern is patchy and I don't know why that
X-pattern is there.
It just shouldn't be there and I do not get that problem with my halogens.
Once again, I always compare everything to the standard in my car which is Sylvania Silverstars.
Those are a little bit above standard halogens and they've never had a problem and yet, this
HID kit here, is having a few problems.
The installation is a little bit more difficult than the previous HID kit that I used, which
was a single xenon.
Definitely way more difficult than most of my LED kits and I feel that maybe a 55-watt
kit might be a bit better.
I have a feeling that would involve a lot more work too because it's using more power,
maybe not.
I don't know, maybe I might try the Dual xenon 55-watt kit instead of a 35-watt kit.
Again, just like the other one I tried, this is 35 watt except this is Dual xenon.
Do I recommend these?
Not particularly.
The light pattern is not where it needs to be and the high beams are completely disappointing
again.
I don't know what it is about after market kits in my car, they don't work that well.
You know what?
It's not just my car, it's 9007 socket kits in general, it seems.
I've tried it on different vehicles to see the difference and let me tell you, it was
even worse on other vehicles that were American-made and their reflector units.
Now, who knows?
If this was a 9007 kit with a projector unit instead of a reflector, who knows?
Maybe this would be an awesome kit, but I'm using reflectors in my car and it just doesn't
work well.
It doesn't cut the mustard, as they say.
With that being said, I don't recommend these either.
They're slightly better than the other kit that I tried but I don't think I'm going to
stick with these.
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