For months now IÂ’ve been debating having a HID conversion done on the Golf, after reading many reviews and HID kit suppliers websites, I started asking around to see if anyone had recommendations, but alas none were forthcoming.
As far as kit quality went, the same name kept cropping up, HIDÂ’S 4U, so after phoning a number of their listed fitting centres, it was apparent some knew a lot, and some next to nothing about fitting to a MK5 Golf. I had quote of 1 to 5 hours too fit, some didnÂ’t realise the front end of the car needed removing, hence the 1 hour. Trust me if you want a tidy job, the front needs removing.
Anyway I set off on Saturday morning looking for M Style in Sunny Romford, M Style are listed on HIDÂ’s 4U website as a fitting centre, and after a few email to Paul Emerson, he sounded like he knew his stuff, and had no problem quoting to fit to a VW, even though their a BMW specialist.
I arrived a t 8.30 am, to be greeted by a very nice lady with a smile, who made me a coffee, after a couple of hours and more coffee and toasted cheese sandwiches, the job was done.
Now as IÂ’m sure you can appreciate, seeing the difference of XenonÂ’s in the daylight is next to impossible, However I was show under the bonnet a very tidy install. So I paid up and left.
IsnÂ’t it strange how long it takes to get dark even this time of year, but at 5.30 pm I was firing the XenonÂ’s up, impressed with their OE looking soft start, so I set off driving around looking for the darkest country lanes I could find, but even with a small amount of daylight left in the clear winter night sky, I could see the difference immediately. and wow what a difference, a massive amount of crisp white light on the road in front.
I hardly found the need for main beam, as the XenonÂ’s pierced into the inky black Kent country lanes
Now for the big test, one of my main worries with retrofit was blinding other drivers, thinking the normal headlight lenses were a completely different design to the real deal.
Well 100 miles over two nights and I have only been flashed once.
So all in all one happy Golf driver
IÂ’ve enclosed some photos, to try and illustrated the difference.
Tidy install of one control unit.
At the weekend I drove down to my local MOT centre and asked the lads to check my dipped headlight beam pattern
Here's the N/S
And again
Sadly the O/S photo was ruined my glare from the glass cover, but trust me it was the same.
Because I'm a sado, I managed to persued the wife to drive my car at night while I filmed her, in this short clip mines the second car, just after I was blinded my main beam man.
