just was wondering if there was a difference in the K between the AP1 & AP2? it seems to me that the AP2 hid's are brighter have more of the blue ish color to them then the AP1. is it just me ?

 

technically brighter and more blue dont go together. I know the ballists are different but I think the bulbs are the same. I KNOW that the bulbs in the AP1 are 4300k which is about as close to pure white as possible and hence being the most useable light

 

i agree i see a ap2 coming down the road and the lights are really blue but an ap1 is sortof daul.

 

probably the housing.. not the bulb or balast.

 

my friend tells me that mine look really blue when i'm driving behind him... but i cant tell at all just looking at the front of my car. i would say ap2 are 4300 too.

 

both ap1 and ap2 use 4300k bulbs....ballast do not help with color they are both 35 ballast. the reason why your ap2 probably has a bit more color is the ap2 bulbs are going to be newer than the ap1 therefore the ap2 bulbs dont have much more life on them thus giving a more colorful cutoff band.

Also both projectors lens are clear with no "frosting" or fresnels. its just how new your bulb is going to be unless someone modifed the shield for more color

 

well i think it was the projectors,
because my 07 was so blue looking when i was fllowing my friend.
but one of my other friend's AP1 with brand new bulb are like kinda yellowish white looking..

 

thats because a brand new bulb hasnt color shifted yet....its roughly 100 hours for a brand new bulb to colorshift into the naturl kevlin temp that the bulb is set at. So that is why his new bulb looked a little yellow

 

The cutoff shield is slightly different between the AP1 and AP2. the AP2 shield is set so that the cutoff line is slightly lower on the road to keep from blinding oncoming drivers; you see the blue part of the "rainbow" in the cutoff pattern.

 

shouldnt be different i have taken apart both ap1 and ap2 projectors....shields are exactly the same....they are both 1 step shields for LHD traffic. the ap1 does the exact same thing