HID light replacement

Hi Eric, welcome to PriusChat. Use the Search function (third from the right at the top of the page) to find several posts. Recently someone here bought HID lamps on eBay and installed them himself. As I recall, the price was under $100.

 

Is HID under warranty?

Just 2 years for a HID be gone, even for the bulb only, seems a bit too early? Maybe you should find out since you're still under 3/36k for your 06 Prius (unless you're already over 36k in miles).

 

i bought 5500K replacement bulbs on ebay, for 89 bucks. i have an extra OEM bulb.

The key installing these bulbs isnt to touch the glass.

the socket type is D2S i believe, or D2R most of the time they make the bulbs to support both D2R and D2S

 

D2S and D2R is just the standard, for the bulb.

its like buying a candle type bulb for your chandelier, its a standard size and connector.

 

EDIT: Deleted misinformation. Sorry for the mistake.

 

Your Owner's Manual should say. My 2007 Owner's Manual says that the HID bulb is D4R.

 

Careful...there are a lot of inferior fake HID lights out there.

 

According to Bob Bridge Toyota, the MSRP for the OEM HID bulb is $315. Bob Bridge Toyota sells it for $227:

https://www.1sttoyotaparts.com/partscat.html

Maybe ask your dealer to match this price?

 

sorry i thought 06 carried over same bulbs as the 04-05, ebay some d4r bulbs, buy them in original packaging, buy silvania or osram or philips, its much cheaper than dealer

 

Yes, from reading other HIDs threads here, I think the 2004-05 HIDs are D2S/D2R and the 2006-08 HIDs are D4R. I understand that they are the same size, etc., but that the D4R is mercury-free.

In any event, I would have thought that the OP's HIDs were still under warranty.