What did you and your MK2 do today?
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They look to be around 4100K colour temp which is slightly yellower than the standard bulbs. I actually think the OEM ones are philips bulbs anyway
Personally I would, but then they may well be better than the standard ones, I don't know. If I was to change I'd probably go for the osram cool blue intense, philips xtreme vision or philips blue vision bulbs. All are going on £150 for two.
Nope the standard bulbs are good, but I was trying to match my led sidelights a bit better! The bulbs I currently have in look better if you're looking at the headlight but the light output is no where near as good.
Oh I have my fogs come on during the day. They have 5000k HiDs in them. When it gets dark my main beams turn on and fogs turn off automatically. The fogs match the OEM xenons pretty closely.
Sorry bud but that's not true. Like I said I've had cars in the past with aftermarket hids and I never blinded anyone. They even passed an mot no bother. When I fitted them you can still see the line of the beam and that was in normal headlights.
I'm going to have to disagree with you bud. I have had a car with aftermarket HiDs in them. The light pattern is all over the place. Do me a favor, pull up to a wall or garage and take a photo of the light pattern on the wall and upload it here. I will then do the same with my car ( it has OEM factory xenons in a projector housing ) and you will see the light pattern will be very different and much more focus. To make it fair park around 2m away from the wall / garage.
Of course if you prove me wrong I'll gladly accept and apologize.
Not really. The higher output of light from the HiDs will cause a lot of glare which will show in the light pattern on the wall in a reflector housing.
You could do a compare between normal and hid and you would see HiDs as brighter. Which is their purpose in life. We are looking at light pattern / glare here. Not brightness.
You could do a compare between normal and hid and you would see HiDs as brighter. Which is their purpose in life. We are looking at light pattern / glare here. Not brightness.
Reflectors have a different pattern to projectors as the projectors have a piece of metal cutting off the beam pattern. Now there are no problems with putting in HIDs to a reflector but as Tander says the 'crispness' of the cut off line is not the same. If you want brighter lights then install HIDs into your reflectors, if you want to reduce the dazzle then install the H7R bulbs however the best option are either OEM projector headlights or retrofit projectors into a set of headlights.
Had a set of Osram Night Breaker Unlimited H1's and Cool Blue Intense for front lights. Should go well with the Night Breaker Unlimited H7's i have already got.
This I agree with. H7R bulbs would work better than normal HIDs in reflective housings. Also, OEM projectors, obviously would be the best.
I wish I could mate but I have a car with the proper xenons now lol. Its was my last that had the aftermarket ones. When I fitted them I done exactly that tho and lined them up on my fence. You could clearly see the beam pattern. Wish I took a pic now.
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