HID's on a mk2?

[sidecarphil]

mine are really good

bought good quality ones

with my crystal headlamp's

and well set up on a beam setter and i have to say the pattern is perfect , no fuzzing or distorsion

i'll stick a piccy on next week

My biggest hate is stupid fog light drivers,

+1 there

[Ben Lessani]

Oh, and those who inside on turning on dipped beam in the rain!

[sidecarphil]

i have my lights on in the rain  :embarassed: :embarassed:

but i do hate daytime running lights 

IT'S DAYLIGHT YOU DON'T NEED HEADLAMPS ON W%$KER

[Diamond Hell]

Running sidelights in dreary conditions is proven to improve the visibility of your car.

Better to be the first one with your sidelights on than the last.

That's sidelights, not dipped beam.

[sharpie]

Running sidelights in dreary conditions is proven to improve the visibility of your car.

of course it is, and it's especially helpful for me when other cars decide to turn them on when i'm driving big vans about in the rain (i.e. today when it's been chucking it down, no rear view mirror and visibility is low.)

[Jay]

I ain't got side lights 

uprated loom FTW 

[cняis]

I ain't got side lights 

uprated loom FTW 

sidelights will need to be functional to pass the MOT 

MOT test stations do not nit-pick with the brightness of a bulb (e.g. 60w vs 100w), just the beam pattern and aim (as our work has an MOT test station, i sometimes help out with the MOTs)

[molovin]

So how do i change the loom? and 100w is okay to use?

[weazgti]

I did a search and found this cos i need to do it to mine
www.matey-matey.com/tech_diag.shtml.

[dubber36]

Running sidelights in dreary conditions is proven to improve the visibility of your car.

Better to be the first one with your sidelights on than the last.

That's sidelights, not dipped beam.

Side lights as they are often refered to are actually parking lights. (I know we have another parking light function to put one side on only with the indicator stalk, but they are still only 5W bulbs at the front)

In the rain, especially when there is spray, are no good use at all for making your car more visible. In the mid 80's we were give dim-dip headlights. These were to prevent people from driving in conditions of poor visibility with only there parking lights on. For some reason in the mid 90's dim-dip headlamps went away, leaving people driving round with parking lights on once again.

If you have dim-dip still working, all well and good. But surely it's not too much effort to push the switch another click to put your headlights on properly. Next time it's raining have a look at cars driving with their parking lights on, and I'll guarantee that you will see the car before you see it's lights.