What do people think of my HIDs

[kidinspace]

Mines a 1.4 sport with double headlight clusters.

I might take my current HID's out and put them in my fog lights (They're H7 right?) and buy a H7R kit off HID's direct.

I also want to sort out my highbeam. 100w bulbs are too much right? They'll melt my wiring won't they?

From what I remember the foglamps are H3 across the range, besides i don't think getting the wiring in it out the back casing for the foglamps would be do-able.
I believe separate kits for foglamps are available.
100W bulbs from what I remember make hee-haw difference from what I recall, they are also illegal for road use.


.G.

 

[Cal91]

Ahhh, stupid Halfords said they said it was H7 in there haha!

Oh well, thats not gonna happen then :\

100w bulbs won't be illegal due to them being in my high beam not dipped beam.

 

[mazzerati]

Mines a 1.4 sport with double headlight clusters.

wierd mines a 1.4 sport pre facelift with single :s lol


do i need h4 for mine then or h4-3 or are they the same?

im liking the look of your hids you see so i might have to invest

 

[Cal91]

Oh, I do highly recommend them mate. You can't see the difference on normal day to day drives. But take the car on them back roads and I tell you it's 100x better.

High beam does nothing now lol!

Which is why I'm looking for a 55w version lol!

I know your's are the H4's, and they need that small actuator to move the bulb on high beam.
But I'm out of knowledge about the difference between H4 and H4-3.

 

[Neo]

100w bulbs are not road legal whether they are in dip or main beam.

H4-3 is a HID h4 bulb that does high and low beam (soleniod activated).

H4-2 is a HID bulb that has HID dip, and halogen main beam.

H4-1 is a dipped beam HID only (no main beam).

Check this out: clicky Full list of HID bulbs.

 

[mazzerati]

a ha, so i need h4-3's then im guessing. thanks dudes

 

[Neo]

I wanna do that purely because I feel there's still too much glare for my liking and the H7R kit I have my eye on is a 50-55watt system Brighter

But how much difference does a H7R kit make? Does it just cut the glare or does it half the light output?

I`ve never seen a 55w system in action so I can`t comment on them, I think 35w is plenty!

Original xenons run on 35w and the H7R bulb is just a copy of the D2R bulb used in OEM reflector HID`s (Renault laguna, Honda civic etc).

When you fit H7R bulbs you end up needing to adjust your lights upward instead of down, this makes your main beam more effective as it throws the beam further down the road. I can see for miles on my mains!

I will try and take some pictures of my beam patterns to show what I mean.

 

[Cal91]

Cheers bud.
What can I use my 35w H7 Hids for then hmmmmm.

I am seriously thinking of getting H7R 55w Hids

 

[Neo]

Cheers bud.
What can I use my 35w H7 Hids for then hmmmmm.

I am seriously thinking of getting H7R 55w Hids

Well Hids4u now have more H7R`s in stock (i just ordered a 5000k as a spare), since you already have ballasts.
They`re not cheap mind, so if you need a discount code PM me, or google hids4u discount code! Knocks about 15 - 20% off!

 

[Cal91]

Just looked. £73 a pair then with the discount is still alot :|

Hids Direct has the same bulbs (or look it) and they're £20 a pair and I have a 10% discount code.

 

[Neo]

Yeah that is a lot cheaper! Fair enough!
Giving them a go?

 

[Cal91]

I bet your gutted that you just paid that

I might

 

[Neo]

True... £20 for a pair is better than £30 for one!

But at least I know it will be exactly the same as the ones I have, Some makers of these seem to put the blackout section in slightly different places.

 

[Cal91]

True. I can see your point.

I saw some on ebay and they had blacked-out the tip and the stem of the bulb.

When the ones on Hids4u and Hids-direct have a bit off the stem and a small strip down the side.

 

[lawrieIbizaMk4]

That looks fine for now but you can do it yourself:

Take a 6mm allen key to the vertical adjuster:

It will have 1% marked on the top of your headlight, this means the light should drop at a rate of 1 percent.

To achieve this, put your lights to 0 and park 5 metres in front of your garage, then measure from the ground up to your bulb, (say 60cm).
Then adjust your lights down so that the top of the beam is 5cm (1% of 5 metres) LOWER than the height you measured (so the top of the beam should now be 55cm).

It will work at any distance from the wall if you don`t have 5 metres of space:
If you park 3 metres away, then the top of the beam should be 3cm (1% of 3m) lower than the height of your bulb (if 60cm... then 57cm).

Hope that makes sense.

found this very helpful neo cheers!! thought the dulness of mine was just the way it was meant to look. oh how i was wrong! lol

 

[Aimez]

Hope your aware these will fail MOT in a couple of years time when the VOSA rules change thou.