I love buying new car accessories for my car from time to time. For example, I recently bought hid headlights for my car and they made the car look fantastic. In case you didn’t know, HID stands for high-intensity discharge, a technical term for the electric arc that produces the light. Automotive HID lamps are commonly called “xenon headlamps”, though they are actually metal halide lamps that contain xenon gas. The xenon gas allows the lamps to produce minimally adequate light immediately upon powerup, and accelerates the lamps’ run-up time. The light from HID headlamps has a distinct bluish tint when compared with tungsten-filament headlamps.