Replacement BRZ HID bulbs
 

When I hit a deer last year I had to have one of my headlights replaced. When my car came out of the shop I noticed my original HID (driver side) no longer matched my new HID (passenger side) so I bought a pair of CnLight 6000k bulbs, which looked awesome initially..perfect shade of white with a hint of blue. Lately I noticed they look borderline halogen when I am driving next to another car that has HID. They looked great for the past year but it looks like they have changed color; I did some research and found that the shift in color should go in the opposite direction. Has anyone else with these bulbs noticed this? I bought these from diodedynamics so I assume they are legit bulbs. I am ok with buying another set, can anyone recommend anything? Philips I assume is a safe bet?

Philips and Morimoto are both pretty good options and I believe Morimoto is slightly cheaper. The OEM bulbs are Osram Xenarc and can be purchased anywhere. The Retrofit Source has many different HID bulb brands to choose from with a couple different color temperatures for each. I believe 4300k is the color temperature of the OEM bulbs and has a slight orange/warm tinge. A higher number like 5000k would be mostly white and 6000k and above would start to have that blue/cool tinge.

Thanks, I am pretty familiar with HID in general. Yes, 4300k is the stock color temp and the higher you go the bluer/purple you get. The color temp is supposed to increase as they age..so 4300k can shift to 4800k over time, for example.

I am really just looking for an alternate brand recommendation for the 6000k color temp, that is not going to cost me $200. From what I read prior to purchasing, CnLight were supposed to be really good. Weird that they changed into 4300k-3000k color temp on me. At $60, you get what you pay for I guess.

I guess I will maybe try Philips. I am out of the loop a bit on whats new, are we able to swap in LED bulbs into HID housings yet, while maintaining perfect beam pattern?

no, hid is better then led. led can't currently get the same lumen output as hid. led's main advantage is lumens-per-watt, not overall lumens.

Ended up going with Osram D4S CBB's which are rated at 'up to 7000k' but are actually more like 6000k.

I will post some comparison pics of the 1-year old CnLight 6000k's that DiodeDynamics sells versus the Osrams.