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Are these lights bi xenon?
« on: 25 January 2021, 19:24 »


As per the title. Car has winter pack. Thanks

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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #1 on: 25 January 2021, 19:54 »
Doesn't have the washers, suggests not.

Is it a UK car? In Ireland on a mk7 they didn't have xenon. Some Irish cars have been brought into Britain for resale.
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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #2 on: 25 January 2021, 19:59 »
Thanks Fred. It's an approved used from a dealer in England.

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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #3 on: 25 January 2021, 20:04 »
It does have the washers if you look closely.  :nerd:

I think they probably are bi-xenon, as far as I know the imported GTi's I've seen that don't have bi-xenons don't have the red stripe through. Bit like this

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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #4 on: 25 January 2021, 20:10 »
The only real certain way to tell is if you can see the build sticker in the boot and decode the build codes.
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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #5 on: 25 January 2021, 20:24 »
It does have the washers if you look closely.  :nerd:

I think they probably are bi-xenon, as far as I know the imported GTi's I've seen that don't have bi-xenons don't have the red stripe through. Bit like this



I’ll bow to your greater wisdom but they look like halogens to me and I can’t see any washers!
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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #6 on: 25 January 2021, 21:10 »
There were some imported from Malta that didn't have zenons.
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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #7 on: 25 January 2021, 21:52 »


As per the title. Car has winter pack. Thanks

Yes, they are bi xenon
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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #8 on: 25 January 2021, 21:58 »
Looks a bit odd... where is the indicator strip?

I can't see the washers.. they should be a rectangle just below the lights, are we saying that that large circle is the washer?
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Re: Are these lights bi xenon?
« Reply #9 on: 25 January 2021, 22:29 »
Looks a bit odd... where is the indicator strip?

I can't see the washers.. they should be a rectangle just below the lights, are we saying that that large circle is the washer?

The circular cover is the towing hook cover.

The car in the picture that was posted by the OP in the first post for whatever reason isn’t showing now. That picture showed the front end of a mk7 Golf GTI with xenon headlamps with the ‘U’ shaped DRL’s, continuation of the red grille stripe into the headlamp units and the headlamp washer cover below the headlamps. The headlamps on that car were like this one;


The picture posted by @Guzzle in reply #3 in this discussion thread is a non UK spec mk7 GTI with halogen headlamps, no headlamp washers, and no red stripe through the headlamp unit.

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