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HID and sidelight bulb?

danieltm

Bit of Jabba magic!
Aug 26, 2006
796
0
Norwich
I want to change my sidelights and fullbeam bulbs to match my HID kit, What bulbs would look good with the HID colour? Thanks guys! ;)
 

daveyonthemove

Smile if you like SEAT's
May 14, 2006
1,519
0
Wrexham
Full beams will be hard to match.
Most are yellow no matter what colour the bulb. Halogen just lights up yellowish, no way around it.
Best to look for is a White bulb if you can find them, but most look yellow when compared to HID's
 

danieltm

Bit of Jabba magic!
Aug 26, 2006
796
0
Norwich
Really? Thats a bit of a pain. I think the philips blue vision will be ok for side lights. Is H1 fullbeam? I think there is also a philips blue vision for H1?
 

danieltm

Bit of Jabba magic!
Aug 26, 2006
796
0
Norwich
I never thought i could be so hard to find some bulbs. I want to get the side light tomorrow as one has blown, Dont know if i will be able to get any LED's from somewhere like Wilco or Halfords? Yeah the Osram night sounds pretty good. I will see what i can find tomorrow. Thanks for the help mate!
 

cordobabrendy

FOOORRREEE!
Aug 24, 2001
7,642
1
belfast
Without going hid they will always look yellow. you could of course buy 4500k hid bulbs to replce your 6000k's as they wont be as pure white :)
The superbright single leds look excellent and having bought around 5 pairs of different types serching for the brightest 5v bulb available have ended up with thee, although I bought them months ago for a lot less from ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUPERLUX-T10-...ryZ72233QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Jan 19, 2006
1,024
0
fife, scotland
i really dont see what the need is for full beams to look the same as the hid's, cos no-one is going to see them looking less white. its not like people driving the oposite way will be annoyed that the light that is currently burning a hole in their retinas is slightly yellowish. i sort of know where your coming from but just think its not worth the bother.
 

danieltm

Bit of Jabba magic!
Aug 26, 2006
796
0
Norwich
i really dont see what the need is for full beams to look the same as the hid's, cos no-one is going to see them looking less white. its not like people driving the oposite way will be annoyed that the light that is currently burning a hole in their retinas is slightly yellowish. i sort of know where your coming from but just think its not worth the bother.

Its just for my benefit, The white colour is really nice to drive with but when i put full beam on the white is over powered by the yellow. It would just be nice if it was more white?
 

Funkyfin2000

Black Leon Cupra R 280bhp
Oct 6, 2005
2,477
0
Stafford, Staffordshire
yeha fitted mine yesterday and l;opok great!

anyone else find theres no slips to get the side lights out? i had to use like a set of pinders to squeeze the plastic out kind of thing!

right nitemare!
 

Hudds

Active Member
Feb 12, 2007
75
0
Huddersfield
Yeh, i'v broken one of the plastic clips on the passenger side, put a pen knife blade down the side to flip it out, and it snapped...Oops
 

sheffboy

avoiding potholes
May 25, 2007
655
1
I cant understand why people have difficulties with removing the sidelights.
I did mine recently and found it a doddle. Just pull em out :confused:
 

russman68

Active Member
Feb 19, 2007
146
0
Surrey
OK i'm no mechanic but found fitting the HIDs really easy. However i have been trying to change the sidelights for almost 20 mins and cant get the old one out!

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Now i take it i am removing the black holder from the white holder by squeezing the 2 black clips together. But these black clips are flush with the white holder making it very hard to squeeze them, when i did manage to catch them nothing budged and i quickly lost my grip of them.

It is very frustrating and my hand is now bleeding :(

Has anyone got ANY tips? how hard is it to remove the whole headlight?

I asked the dealer to have a look while they were doing my brakes but said they couldnt cos theyre LEDs [:@]

Also i have now managed to make the sidelight not work - probably from my continual yanking of it.
 
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