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Offline Ess_Three

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Front light differences
« on: 01 September 2010, 14:20 »
Folks,

What's what with the front lights on a Mk6?
With factory Xenons, DRLs are Xenons and are positioned in the outer lamp units, sidelights are the little shaped things below, the inner lamp units being indicators only.

I notice non-Xenon cars have the DRLs as half power/low wattage lights in the inner lamp units.
So where is the indicator on a non-Xenon car?
Where is dip beam?
Where is main beam?

Are all headlight units the same design on GTIs - projector lenses, dark grey surrounds, silver infills?
 

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Re: Front light differences
« Reply #1 on: 01 September 2010, 15:34 »
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32481887@N02/3040808046/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Indicator can clearly be seen in this non xenon GTI.
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Re: Front light differences
« Reply #2 on: 01 September 2010, 15:58 »
Quite different...
I didn't realise they were quite so different.


Not the best pic, I know...

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Re: Front light differences
« Reply #3 on: 02 September 2010, 10:00 »
This might be of use: http://www.forum-auto.com/marques/volkswagen/sujet278-20545.htm

It's in French, but there are plenty of pictures.

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Re: Front light differences
« Reply #4 on: 03 September 2010, 14:31 »
This might be of use: http://www.forum-auto.com/marques/volkswagen/sujet278-20545.htm

It's in French, but there are plenty of pictures.

Careful Frogy, your get asked to translate  :grin:


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Offline JamesR27

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Re: Front light differences
« Reply #5 on: 03 September 2010, 19:53 »
What do the DRL look like on, with the Xenon lights. Does anyone have any pics?
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Re: Front light differences
« Reply #7 on: 04 September 2010, 05:55 »
What do the DRL look like on, with the Xenon lights. Does anyone have any pics?

It's full dipped Xenons, in the outer lights.
Shamelessly stolen from the link p2asa posted, for those too lazy to look:


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