Regarding ncytperformance (ebay item # 598244224) and his "7000K HELLA/OSRAM Hi/Low Beam H4 REAL HID KIT"
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HIDDeer: Well first of all, he sais that Xenon technology has only been
                                 available for three years which is inaccurate information. Then
                                 he continues on to say that it normally costs you over $1500 to
                                 modify your vehicle to HID, which is also inaccurate. So why
                                 not ad another tiny little blue/ white lie? Sure, 7000k HID. Its
                                 like that Sparkomatic 1000 watt car amplifier on sale for 100
                                 bucks. Someone will buy it. 
                                 But also, you can't overlook the fact that the seller has 1740
                                 previous feedbacks with only 25 negatives, so either they sell
                                 products that they know are good, or they just know how to sell
                                 products really good?
                                 All in all, my guess is that most of what the seller sais is true
                                 (i.e. truly Hella/ Osram H4 dualbeam), but that he spiced up the
                                 advertising a little bit in order to bump sales up a notch?
<BR><BR>ECooke:
                                    I have the "6000K" H4 kit, from the same seller. It has the
                                    Hella ballasts. The HID capsules are probably Osram,
                                    Hella's primary headlight bulb maker. I say probably since
                                    the base is pretty well buried in the high-low switching
                                    mechanism, and I can't see the actual capsule base. I think
                                    the seller has his description scrambled, since the ad says
                                    "Osram ballasts and Hella bulbs". 
                                    The side return wire is "purplish", and the capsule glass
                                    appears to be clear. The output is blue-white after
                                    warm-up, about the same as my Lincoln Mark VIII.
                                    Just looking at the light pattern (rigged up in my basement)
                                    being output thru a VW Scirroco MK2 H4 headlight, I'd say
                                    the beam patterns (low and high) are good. Sharp low
                                    beam cutoff & RH flare, with a good overall beam spread.
                                    Please don't ask me about any "yellow" appearing in the
                                    beam, since that's subjective, and the human eye is easily
                                    fooled on color perception, especially when dealing with
                                    very bright light sources in dark places.
                                    Coming back to the lights, the switching mechanism works
                                    by having the lower shield drop down, exposing more of
                                    the capsule light to the reflector. I have no idea how long
                                    this mechanism will last, but hopefully, it has a fail-safe
                                    design in the low beam position.
                                    The wiring harness provided has one of those Mickey
                                    Mouse Pilot-style relays in it, and I'm going to change it for
                                    a Hella (or Bosch) relay before I install the lights.
                                    It'll probably be next Spring before I get it completely done,
                                    since this is only a part of a larger project, namely, grafting
                                    e-code headlights onto the front of a '90 Lincoln Mark VII,
                                    and getting rid of the plastic aero-horror headlights and
                                    their (non)designed 9004 bulbs.