MikeCallery
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Bored with my 06 Z71 Tahoe, I've been looking at little projects that I can undertake to spruce up my ride. One of them was the HID Headlight conversion kit from HighLevel aka: Mike Johnson.
Mike had permission to advertise on the site and offered a kit to do a HID conversion on my ride so I decided to take a shot. His website looked quite professional and he offered a pretty satisfaction and support.
One member said his price, $149. was too expensive compared to eBay. Now granted, I do shop on eBay and look for odds and ends, but you tend to get what you pay for. You can find the HID lights pretty inexpensively, but they don't include the transformer and I don't know if that poster was aware of it.
I ordered the kit last week. My payment cleared late Friday, the kit shipped Monday and arrived yesterday. I just finished the install.
The box wasn't anything impressive and looked pretty generic if you ask me. All gold with a tag sheet on one side indicating what was in the box. The packing, however, was first class with the bulbs protected in styrofoam, in a plastic tube, and that and everything else was in styrofoam for protection.
The kit included the wiring harness, two bulbs and two transformers. You had to go online to get the instructions, which I felt should have been included, but such is life.
Installation, honestly, was a breeze. The hardest part of the installation, in my opinion, was determining where you had space to mount the transformers for each light. On the DS there was a bolt holding a support rod that went between the front grille and the side quarter panel that served well. On the other side I just drilled a self-taping screw into the front cross member and put the transformer next to the air cleaner.
I popped off the plastic top shield that covers radiator access and ran the wires across there, tying it off with twist tie.
Connections were straight forward. One hot going to the battery, one ground. There was one wire that connected to the DS light plug, which served basically as the relay trigger. The other connections on the harness connected to the transformers and they in turn fed the lights.
Again, finding the location for the transformers was the most challenging part, but aside from that, it took me all of about 30 minutes to do the install.
I have the 5000k version, the recommended k I understand and the ones that would match up with most of the cars. I was not interested in show, but in functionality and legality. I'll drive the car over the next few days and see how I like the night time illumination and report back.
So far, for those of you interested in what very much to me appears to be a high-quality kit and easy installation, I would most definitely recommend the HighLevel kit from Mike. He stands behind it, promotes his support and the kit was first class.
Mike had permission to advertise on the site and offered a kit to do a HID conversion on my ride so I decided to take a shot. His website looked quite professional and he offered a pretty satisfaction and support.
One member said his price, $149. was too expensive compared to eBay. Now granted, I do shop on eBay and look for odds and ends, but you tend to get what you pay for. You can find the HID lights pretty inexpensively, but they don't include the transformer and I don't know if that poster was aware of it.
I ordered the kit last week. My payment cleared late Friday, the kit shipped Monday and arrived yesterday. I just finished the install.
The box wasn't anything impressive and looked pretty generic if you ask me. All gold with a tag sheet on one side indicating what was in the box. The packing, however, was first class with the bulbs protected in styrofoam, in a plastic tube, and that and everything else was in styrofoam for protection.
The kit included the wiring harness, two bulbs and two transformers. You had to go online to get the instructions, which I felt should have been included, but such is life.
Installation, honestly, was a breeze. The hardest part of the installation, in my opinion, was determining where you had space to mount the transformers for each light. On the DS there was a bolt holding a support rod that went between the front grille and the side quarter panel that served well. On the other side I just drilled a self-taping screw into the front cross member and put the transformer next to the air cleaner.
I popped off the plastic top shield that covers radiator access and ran the wires across there, tying it off with twist tie.
Connections were straight forward. One hot going to the battery, one ground. There was one wire that connected to the DS light plug, which served basically as the relay trigger. The other connections on the harness connected to the transformers and they in turn fed the lights.
Again, finding the location for the transformers was the most challenging part, but aside from that, it took me all of about 30 minutes to do the install.
I have the 5000k version, the recommended k I understand and the ones that would match up with most of the cars. I was not interested in show, but in functionality and legality. I'll drive the car over the next few days and see how I like the night time illumination and report back.
So far, for those of you interested in what very much to me appears to be a high-quality kit and easy installation, I would most definitely recommend the HighLevel kit from Mike. He stands behind it, promotes his support and the kit was first class.
