Bulbs

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:44 am

I want to replace the headlight bulbs - what is a good choice for more power without melting everything around?

M · Post by M » Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:58 am

Hook up a pair of relays and a new 12V feed from the battery (fused of course) to the headlights - then standard bulbs will do the job quite well.

Silverstar bulbs are quite good as are Philips and Osram. I use Philips in the Bling and there is a def'o improvement over the OE bulbs. Standard 55W too.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:17 am

Interesting sounding mod. Any chance of a step-by-step guide in true partwork fashion, starting with "You Will Need'... etc. and making it a sticky? A diagram would be good for those like me who are, basically, electrickery wimps.

M · Post by M » Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:32 am

Vannys your bloke for this. Basically a couple of DPDT relays from maplin or even the scrappers - take a new live feed (using decent grade wire) from the battery - fused - take to the relay - you want the trigger side fo the relay coil being fed by the wire from the headlights (which you cut) and the output side (new live feed) then goes to the headlamp - if you want the full beam to do the same then you will need an additional pair of relays.

I did teh whole mod using two relays (one for main an done for dipped) and took the feeds off and split it for both headlights - not really the proper way of doing it and looked messy. I will try and do some "paint" illustrations of what I mean - Like I said Vanny could probably talk you through much better than I can and I think its been discussed before - if not here then on Andyspares.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:39 am

thanks.

M · Post by M » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:03 pm

See the following threads:

This One

And This One

And even This One

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:08 pm

Ta. Should've been a little more investigative myself!

ed4ferrets · Post by **ed4ferrets** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:29 pm

The Tramonta site covers it here and loads of other interesting stuff too

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:10 am

I was given a set of H4 HID (Xenon) headlight bulbs, wired them in and haven't looked back since. I know there is a bit of confusion over legality, but we took the car to an MOT station, and they passed the headlight alignment test, and the tester said they were better than standard bulbs because the beam pattern is more focused and crisp, and he couldn't fail them.

I think the kit cost around £150 at the time, but are considerably cheaper now, and so long as you get the right ones, they don't look particularly chavy, just really bright.

If you do a lot of b-road night driving, then they are the best thing in the world.