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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #20 on: 24 September 2011, 17:00 »
This



Resulted in this



Standard bulbs still in and without the alternator running.

Although not a great demonstration being daylight and all, I guarantee my daily drives projectors are p155 poor in comparison. 

The light travels soooo far without blinding anybody, totally legal and do not suddenly stop short of themselves with a sudden end of range like HID's do within their correct fitment.




Spot on, with a new set of headlights its even better and can be done for only a few quids.
I always run a slightly up spec battery/Alt as well to help :wink:
I must also say that aiming your lamps properly will give most people an instant improvement, so many cars have baddly aimed headlights :smiley:










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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #21 on: 24 September 2011, 17:47 »




 

i bet u my car thats more dazzling than the hids in my projectors  :lipsrsealed:
  


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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #22 on: 24 September 2011, 18:03 »
mine will pass the MOT with them fitted.. ill bet you my car on it

i bet u my car thats more dazzling than the hids in my projectors  :lipsrsealed:

Your confidence comes from knowing where you're going to MOT it.  Take it to mine and it will fail. 

Stop betting your car on sh*t.  A photograpgh proves very little and in my pic full beam is on with the spots so if I drove facing someone with them like this then yes, you're right.  With dipped beam they are properly aligned to compensate the cars height.  I bet you your car they do not dazzle anybody ever..   I would almost bet that the quality of the light is better too.

Spot on, with a new set of headlights its even better and can be done for only a few quids.
I always run a slightly up spec battery/Alt as well to help :wink:
I must also say that aiming your lamps properly will give most people an instant improvement, so many cars have baddly aimed headlights :smiley:

As done before, I will be putting higher wattage bulbs in at some point with a better quality bulb as I prefer a whiter light.   I too have a higher spec amp but that was mainly due to the sound system I used to run in this car.


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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #23 on: 24 September 2011, 18:14 »
As done before, I will be putting higher wattage bulbs in at some point with a better quality bulb as I prefer a whiter light.   I too have a higher spec amp but that was mainly due to the sound system I used to run in this car.

But this is also technically illegal and shouldn't pass.

I honestly believe that if the wiring was all neatly tucked away and hidden, 4300K HIDs in Hella Twins would pass even at your place, as the light is the same colour and when I had them even in stock lights (which didn't seem to glare at all, never got flashed etc but in the Vento lights glared like mad!) they looked stock.

The 90W bulbs (not actually legal either) I have ATM look more HID then 4300K HID's.

HIDs in projector lights, legal, no, moral, IMO as they (regardless of what you all say, including you Mr Hell) DO NOT GLARE in the Hella Twins, IF aimed properly. None at all. I don't think many of you have even had MK3's let alone HIDs in Hella's.

DOES NOT change the fact that they are illegal, however. That point is still 110% valid.

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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #24 on: 24 September 2011, 18:18 »
First mod i did to all of my Mk2's, easiest way to spot a Mk2 was by its candles for headlights :grin:
Clever guy at my old work made me a little board so the lights got a balanced feed and did not dip and rise when I hit the go pedal this also made the bulbs last, in fact i never had a lamp go in 4  years of Mk2 ownership if you dont count the shunts :lipsrsealed:
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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #25 on: 25 September 2011, 11:07 »
Brad, it appears your other posts (which were a tad harsh) have been deleted which in some ways is a shame as its hard for me to reply now.

However:

1.  I was only trying to demonstrate a legal alternative, and as the cars stands now that's exactly what it is.

2.  I did say in my first post as far as the second picture is concerned it was not a great demonstration.  It's hard to show the improvement but you could see that they were very bright and my word needed to be taken regarding not being dazzling on dipped beam.  When I said a picture proves very little I was referring to dazzle.  Ideally I'd have different cars, lenses, light sources, wiring etc etc  to demonstrate the differences but who's got that to hand?

3.  I never once compared what I have to Hellas with HIDs in them, I never said my setup is better, I never said that your lights dazzled blah blah blah.  In fact the comparison I made was against my daily that has a similar setup as the OP,   Projector lenses with normal bulbs vs upgraded looms vs my experience with legal HIDs, so not sure what your problem was with what I was saying.

4.  I have no idea what point you were trying to make about my car never leaving my drive or its relevance to this topic.  It is not my daily driver, you know the history of this car and what it's been through, it was a big project for a year followed by 6 months on the road followed by more work over the winter now to make it even better.   My current responsibilities means I haven't got money p155ing out of my ears so it's slow moving at times,  I have to do everything myself and to be fair I  wouldn't pay someone to do it all for me even if I could afford it.

Now I don't even know why I'm feeling the need to justify myself!
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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #26 on: 26 September 2011, 10:13 »
Their any guides for relaying your lights? As car electrics are about 10ft over my head. And with my sub running they dim with low bass notes  :sad:

Why are they illegal bellend?

Relayed lights aren't. I was referring to higher wattage bulbs.

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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #27 on: 26 September 2011, 12:55 »
Their any guides for relaying your lights? As car electrics are about 10ft over my head. And with my sub running they dim with low bass notes  :sad:

Why are they illegal bellend?

a capacitor should sort that out if you havent got one in your audio system already?

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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #28 on: 26 September 2011, 14:03 »
Their any guides for relaying your lights? As car electrics are about 10ft over my head. And with my sub running they dim with low bass notes  :sad:

Why are they illegal bellend?

a capacitor should sort that out if you havent got one in your audio system already?

This and/or upgrade your alternator.

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Re: HID's in Hella projector's
« Reply #29 on: 26 September 2011, 17:40 »
Their any guides for relaying your lights? As car electrics are about 10ft over my head. And with my sub running they dim with low bass notes  :sad:

Why are they illegal bellend?

a capacitor should sort that out if you havent got one in your audio system already?

This and/or upgrade your alternator.

This is generally down to bad earthing and/or general wiring. It shouldn't happen. Clean up earthing points as a first step.

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