HID's on a 2016 M8000, anyone?

[Jorg Jorgenson]

I was rummaging through the basement and came across my set of HID's which were originally on my 2010 Polaris Dragon. Bulb size is the same as my new-to-me 2016 Cat that I picked up a few weeks ago.

I am wondering if anyone has any experience with putting in HID's on their Cats and if they worked well / didn't work well / stator or other electrical issue afterwards etc.

These have the standard 35W ballast and the high beam bulb is a halogen only low beam is an HID.

Someone told me that I'll have nothing but headaches if I proceed to install them.... so any real life experiences out there?

Thanks,

 

[Levithan]

No hid's unless you have a battery.
The ballasts need the battery juice to light the arc.
Go led, no battery needed and much more reliable overall.

 

[Jorg Jorgenson]

No hid's unless you have a battery.
The ballasts need the battery juice to light the arc.
Go led, no battery needed and much more reliable overall.

Is that just for the cats? Because my iq chassis sled did not have a battery just plug & play into the headlight bulb housing.

 

[slededjr]

Our group all run LED lights in our cats.

 

[Allseasons]

I also installed super bright LED bulbs. Needed to do a little cutting on the rubber sealing boot, but was easy to install. No idea on the HID

The only reason I made the switch was to free up amps/draw from my stator

 

[Jorg Jorgenson]

I opted to not install the HID's in case it caused stator or other electrical issues. Maybe in the future I'll replace with LED's. Thanks everyone for the input.

 

[Dawizman]

Continuing on this topic... do the e-start M8000 push AC or DC to the headlight? Wouldn't mind throwing LEDS in mine.