HID's on a mk2?

[Diamond Hell]

Except a lot of the DFT is over-ridden by EU legislation, which makes the stuff to do with the self-levelling and washers non-applicable.

The correct lamps would have to be approved for HID, for that car.

That ain't gonna happen as it'd be verging on millions of development costs, for a tiny market.

So stick to filament bulbs.  

[billinjah]

run them in all my cars they are brilliant never had a problem when stopped by police or through mot's they are better and much safer than filament bulbs as they are brighter. you dont dazzle other road users if you set you headlights correctly. i dont have a bad word to say about them and neither does anyone i know who has a good set.

[sidecarphil]

Good info there and more to the point I was right

I just run 100W bulbs on an uprated loom, light city!

thats also illegal !!!!!

[Diamond Hell]

Who cares if you dazzle other road users, eh?  So long as you're all right, jack, that's OK.

[Ben Lessani]

Mine are E marked?

[sidecarphil]

yeah so are mine 

but as far as i was informed by the MOT people when i was testing 60w iis the max you can run 

[Ben Lessani]

I think that might be an urban myth,

http://www.motinfo.gov.uk/htdocs/m3s01000001.htm

I couldn't see anything to do with it? By the looks of things, as long as the beam is okay, you should be all set. I might even upgrade to 130W.

[sidecarphil]

yeah i read that

guess it must be 

well i like my HID'S in my GTi

the mrs loves her 80w100 rally blues in her 1.3

[Horney]

run them in all my cars they are brilliant never had a problem when stopped by police or through mot's they are better and much safer than filament bulbs as they are brighter. you dont dazzle other road users if you set you headlights correctly. i dont have a bad word to say about them and neither does anyone i know who has a good set.

A lot of the fuzz are unclear on the law on these as it's a recent mod people are doing. As they start to crack down on modified cars in the next couple of years you'll find mods like this and noisy exhausts etc will start to cause your car to fail MOT's and VOSA requesting the reg is removed and car's put through SVA before being allowed back on the road.

Nick

[Ben Lessani]

To be honest, I have no hate for HID's - after market or standard, they are still blinding when they're oncoming. But they are few and far between.

My biggest hate is stupid fog light drivers, people with the headlights pointing into the air instead of the road and those that don't know how to turn main beam off.