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Offline FlySpeck

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headlight weirdness
« on: 23 February 2010, 10:27 »
I looked in the vr6 handbook, bulbs for the headlights are listed as 2 x H4 and 2 x H1 plus sidelights.

I bought a set off ebay, same types, and went to fit them. Lo and behold, I have 4 x H1 55w and 2 x 5w sidelights, no sign of any H4's nor any way to fit them. What the hell is going on here?

The headlights are absolutely pathetic, couldnt see to piss wi them - lol. Could be low voltage, bad earthing, will check that out today - but - Anyone shed any light (pardon the pun) on this difference in the bulb types?

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Offline VR6-Joe

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Re: headlight weirdness
« Reply #1 on: 23 February 2010, 10:30 »
4x H1's is correct, the handbook is wrong.

As you say though, standard bulbs are pants. I bought a HID kit for £40 over a year ago and it's still going strong
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Re: headlight weirdness
« Reply #2 on: 23 February 2010, 10:34 »
interesting, hid kit for 40, where was that? :)
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Re: headlight weirdness
« Reply #3 on: 23 February 2010, 10:44 »
ebay, there's about 1,000,000 on there for around that price :wink:
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Re: headlight weirdness
« Reply #4 on: 23 February 2010, 10:47 »
cheers joe, nice one. Will be having a set of them then!
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Re: headlight weirdness
« Reply #5 on: 23 February 2010, 10:50 »
lol, cheers, i knew you were gonna say that!
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