# Why do most of the 240s on here still suck?? **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 7, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-do-most-of-the-240s-on-here-still-suck/123332 "2009-04-07T18:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 278
**Author:** ![Chad\_Dugan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/chad_dugan/32/5576_2.png) [@Chad\_Dugan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Chad_Dugan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 9:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-do-most-of-the-240s-on-here-still-suck/123332/278 "2009-04-08T09:42:36Z")
> [@short story. true. old. semi-funny. denny's related.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/short-story-true-old-semi-funny-dennys-related/21341/3): > > Um, HIDs let you see better at night. Maybe not 12,000k, but the 8000k’s I just put on let me see better, and therefore drive safer. > > I’d paint my car flat black if I didn’t have money for a proper paint job and the paint was severely faded/falling off, etc. > [@WTB: small woodburning stove](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wtb-small-woodburning-stove/21313/11): > > Here are a list of shit-mods that are constantly being done: > > 1. Putting on meaningless and useless stickers > 2. Installing “HID” bulbs > 3. ? > > Almost every 240 I see, (mostly s13s) usually has one of the following as mentioned above. mark said “hid” BULBS, not and hid set up with ballast and everything - he is referring to the cheese people do to get blueish looking lights and cant afford proper hids… even then i still think hids are played out on open housing headlights and they are on everything from a to z and its getting annoying and blinding… hids never came in cars with open housing headlights without projectors i dont think… theres a reason for that… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/why-do-most-of-the-240s-on-here-still-suck/123332)._