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Offline chris1h

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HIDs....
« on: 25 October 2014, 14:27 »
Very touchy subject... :grin:

I am absolutely sick of my standard halogens..

Its £500+ for some new xenon headlights which from what i have seen arent even genuine vw and I have no idea how to fit myself..

Hids are my only option.. but what ones.. I have had trouble in the past with my previous car Seat Ibiza. They blew the BCM unit on it..(okay they were some cheapos off ebay). So the thing i am most worried is if they f*ck something up..  or and dont want to look chavy..

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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #1 on: 25 October 2014, 17:03 »
As well as the legalities and dazzling oncoming cars due to light scatter, they will look about as chavy as lights can get.

I made the mistake of not holding out for a Passat with xenons. When I come to change it, I will make sure that the next car has them and in the mean time, just make do.
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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #2 on: 25 October 2014, 17:08 »
Ive been looking around for the same, wished I had held out for one with xenons, but the one i was looking at was from a  car supermarket and had a hard life.

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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #3 on: 25 October 2014, 17:55 »
Put some Osram H7 off road bulbsin the main beam position. You wont dazzle anyone as you would go to dip beam anyway with oncoming traffic.

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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #4 on: 25 October 2014, 18:11 »
Main beams are H15's. A dual filament main/DRL bulb. I'm not sure if there are any upgrades for them yet.
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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #5 on: 25 October 2014, 18:48 »
I had some Philips Silvervisions in my first MK6 and they were just as good if not better than the factory xenons on my next car.
I like to see the road way in front of me when I drive (I do a lot of night driving) and factory xenons may look better but have a sharp cut off point for the light so on dipped beam I don't think they are all that great as a £1200 factory option compared to a set of £30 decent bulbs!
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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #6 on: 25 October 2014, 21:30 »
I had some Philips Silvervisions in my first MK6 and they were just as good if not better than the factory xenons on my next car.
I like to see the road way in front of me when I drive (I do a lot of night driving) and factory xenons may look better but have a sharp cut off point for the light so on dipped beam I don't think they are all that great as a £1200 factory option compared to a set of £30 decent bulbs!

I agree with this. The mk6 xenons just have a flap that lets the beam up for main beam, so i think they are worse on main beam than a hologen with a decent bulb, with the mk5 you had the two together which worked really well.

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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #7 on: 26 October 2014, 18:49 »
yeah spent all day looking over stuff.. no further forward.  plus with the built in xenons you get led's
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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #8 on: 26 October 2014, 19:38 »
yeah spent all day looking over stuff.. no further forward.  plus with the built in xenons you get led's

These are the ones I have been looking at. But want to seem how they look and fit first.

http://www.xenonz.co.uk/store/p92/GOLF_MK6_GTI%2FGTD_STYLE_LED_DRL_PROJECTOR_HEADLIGHTS_.html

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Re: HIDs....
« Reply #9 on: 27 October 2014, 02:11 »
if on a budget, I'd just get some high quality bulbs, I've used them before to great effect, if you need more get some xenons off xenonz uk like the link above, and have a high quality HID put in there, and have perfect vision :)
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