Rik178m@hotmail.com
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 06:32 PM |
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Headlights- HID's?
Anyone using Hid's? When I get to the stage of putting lights on I'd like something nice and bright. Country road driving at night. Will
they fit?
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prawnabie
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 06:35 PM |
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This is a can of worms of people say you will fail MOT, be pulled etc...
The law is that if fitted to a production car, they have to be self adjusting and have a washer system.
You might get away with it on a corsa etc if they are properly adjusted, but on a 7 type car I think you are asking for trouble!
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blakep82
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 06:35 PM |
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its a lot of work to make them legal. you can proobably find a complete kit if you look hard enough, but they MUST be self leveling, and have a washer
system. not sure if there's anything else they need
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Rik178m@hotmail.com
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 06:38 PM |
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ahhhh never mind. Hope some bright bulbs will be ok then. Thanks for the quick replies
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blakep82
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 06:45 PM |
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some sort of fog light affair might be better? BMW headlights are hopeless, and some folk on here will want me shot for this, but on the country lanes
i drive with them on, they make it a lot easier to see, but still aim pretty low.
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Danozeman
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 06:51 PM |
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quote:
BMW headlights are hopeless, and some folk on here will want me shot for this, but on the country lanes i drive with them on, they make it a lot
easier to see, but still aim pretty low.
I can vouch for that. My 5 series headlights are shite. I dont know what the main beam bulbs the bloke put in them before me but theyr bloody
bright!!
As for the 7. My 7 inches with standard bulbs in are lovely in the dark. Never used main beam.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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minitici
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 06:53 PM |
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From IVA Manual:
Note 3: Where vehicles are fitted with Gas Discharge
Headlamps, the requirement for automatic headlamp self-
levelling system or self-levelling suspension shall be
deemed to be complied with where evidence is provided
that the vehicle meets the requirements of 6.1.2..6.2 of ECE
Regulation 48.03
Gas Discharge Headlamps
9. Must be compliant with all of the following
• is "E" or "e" marked
• dipped beam remains on when main beam is on
• is fitted with a wash system (see note 2)
• is fitted with an automatic headlamp self levelling system or self levelling
suspension
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edspurrier
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 07:46 PM |
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I fitted SVC lights with H4 bulbs and use the halfords 80% brighter jobs. They're very good indeed.
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Guinness
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| posted on 15/8/09 at 08:01 PM |
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I have a big set of 7" headlights on mine. They are brilliant at night compared to almost any tin top.
Mike
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 16/8/09 at 09:27 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by edspurrier
I fitted SVC lights with H4 bulbs and use the halfords 80% brighter jobs. They're very good indeed.
Personally I found them to make no difference whatsoever, but Halfords do one maked "Rally" they're about a tenner cheaper than all
the others (about £2.50 each last time I saw them) and they claim to be about 120% brighter iirc. But I didn't say anything cos it says on the
box "not for road use" not that any of us noticed it!
Had a 3.5 million candlepower torch at one point, really wanted to get a pair of THOSE bulbs to fit into foglights, it was like summer in your hand!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/8/09 at 09:29 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by edspurrier
I fitted SVC lights with H4 bulbs and use the halfords 80% brighter jobs. They're very good indeed.
Second the vote for Halfords bulbs I fitted Halfords high brightness H7 bulbs on the Rover, the difference it made is amazing very clear white
light but they are 100% street legal and the same electrical wattage as the bulbs they replaced.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/8/09 at 09:39 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
some sort of fog light affair might be better? BMW headlights are hopeless, and some folk on here will want me shot for this, but on the country lanes
i drive with them on, they make it a lot easier to see, but still aim pretty low.
If fog lights actually help something is really far wrong with your head lights. Normally fog lights make sweet f.a. contribution to useful
illumination and because they are set with a level beam they do do cause bad dazzle to other users on undulating surfaces, hump back bridges and the
like.
When did you last change the head lamp bulbs ? --- they are probably badly discoloured with age or are eastern european 35watt jobs.
Fit a set of the Halfords high brightness white jobs -- they are truly amazing considering the wattage is the same.
[Edited on 16/8/09 by britishtrident]
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 16/8/09 at 09:51 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
I have a big set of 7" headlights on mine. They are brilliant at night compared to almost any tin top.
Mike
Me too - my Yaris headlights are pretty good, but the 7" ones on the Locost throw much more light, and in a better pattern. Full beam is
impressive. They were only cheap headlight units using bog-standard H4 bulbs.
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James
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| posted on 16/8/09 at 09:53 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by edspurrier
I fitted SVC lights with H4 bulbs and use the halfords 80% brighter jobs. They're very good indeed.
Gotta agree with you and Danozeman on this about the 7".
Have 7" on mine, with just the standard supplied bulbs. Couldn't believe the difference over my Golf!
Cheers,
James
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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flak monkey
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| posted on 18/8/09 at 11:05 AM |
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My Leon has been fitted with HIDs. No self levelling or washers as they are after market fitment.
Its been through 2 MOT's with them. Apparently for the MOT it doesnt matter as long as the beam pattern and colour is correct (i.e yellow or
white - not blue!).
My mini had proper xenon HIDs with self levelling and washers and they were brilliant.
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 18/8/09 at 06:52 PM |
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You probably got through those MOTs because the guy didn't know...
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