I drive a 2002 Silverado dually, my wife drives a 2005 Aztek, I own a Yamaha 1300 Tourer and a Honda CX500.
All vehicles have been converted to HID, on my dually that includes the high beams, the stock fog lights and an after market pair of Hella driving lights that use amber coated HID lamps, all of them are real HID with Xenon lamps, the headlight housing low beam on my dually are projector lamp conversions.
I live in rural Alaska, we don’t have much in the way of streetlights, we have long dark winters and lots of animals jumping out on the highways. HID conversions are VERY popular up here, some people don’t do it right and install the wrong type of lamps and you do get the bad glare though.
Animal collisions have gone down in the last few years since more vehicles are coming out with factory installed HID lamps.
They are life savers for us in Alaska, maybe its just an urban thing why people hate them.
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The answer to the conundrum lies within the realm of the phenomenon called ONCOMING TRAFFIC. If you don't have any, then your primary concern is about what you can light up in front of you. If you regularly have oncoming traffic you should be more concerned with what the other drivers coming toward you are seeing ~ your 747 landing lights might well be considered disturbing!
I hope you changed the reflectors too. My neighbor used to work at a Chrysler dealership. They had a lot of vehicles come in with melted reflectors.