hid upgrade on discovery 1 results........

So......... ive been looking at hid upgrade kits for my discovery 1 on flea bay.
I was looking at some for £30 brand new!! I thought they're probably the usual chinese crap but thought I'll have a punt and see what they're like and wow, they're really good quality and very bright!
Would recommend I'll have a look on my ebay and find a link of anyone's interested

Do you have auto levelers fitted?

Do you have the washers connected and functioning?

Or are you one of the cocks with insanely bright lights which shine into the car behind and the vehicles going the other way causing them temporary blindness?

Igloo said:

Do you have auto levelers fitted?

Do you have the washers connected and functioning?

Or are you one of the cocks with insanely bright lights which shine into the car behind and the vehicles going the other way causing them temporary blindness?

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neat trick, if yu can do it

Igloo said:

Do you have auto levelers fitted?

Do you have the washers connected and functioning?

Or are you one of the cocks with insanely bright lights which shine into the car behind and the vehicles going the other way causing them temporary blindness?

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Using illegal hids ofcourse

I ofcourse meant the one infront

Or when they are behind, dazzling you in your rear view mirror, but as you say if you have washers and self levelling then no problem.

On a slight tangent Ive pondered putting 100W bulbs into my allroads main beam bulbs as they use a normal 55w in low beam/dip (2 single filament bulbs) so my reasoning is they are legal when there is oncoming traffic and only when im in the middle of nowhere would I use my "safer" brighter lights?

just get the +120 bulbs - still legal. 100W bulbs arent

These kind of things:

Audi +120% Ring Xenon H7 [477/499] Ultima High Main Headlight Bulbs Light | eBay

I had seen them but wasnt sure if they were worth the money?

I used to dabble with HID back in my younger days of hot hatches

Of course it was all the rage, but in practice not too great!

The law regards washers and self levelling only applies to new vehicles, however it is technically against the law to use HID bulbs in halogen reflectors, if they couldn't do you specifically they can do you for improper maintenance of your headlamps.

This is the same story for 100watt bulbs although I've been using them for a long time and since upgrading the wiring in the pokey 200 system I'm now getting very good vision compared to what was a dim candle before.

As such, you'll be good to go in your Audi if you wanted. On that basis why not upgrade your low beam h7s because you won't have a problem.

The reason that HIDs are a problem is that the beam pattern is not controlled properly in the halogen reflector.

If you have projector lenses then by all means upgrade to HID you won't have trouble, but when fitting hid to halogen reflectors you simply get a wash of light all over the show, and actually have a worse useful light output than you did before.

All that light that is dazzling people should actually be being focused and directed onto the road ahead so it's wasteful and dazzling.

The best bet is to either get a set of Osram Nightbreaker as they're considered the best lamps off the shelf or fit 100w halogens and enjoy whiter and more piercing light.

The more output you can get down onto the Tarmac and trees in front of you the better your vision will be and halogens do it right, keeping it focused so even if you're burning 200w on dip (had 200s in a Suzuki a while back but they just ran too hot and get blowing) as long as it's focused the only thing people might notice is how white your lamps are, but they still won't get dazzled.

Cheers

I've adjusted the dip so I don't blind the driver in front 'or behind (somehow, sorry couldn't resist ) . I parked it in front of a wall yo double check and it all seems good and I haven't had anyone flash me so im thinking all is good

A pair of driving lamps rigged to come on when you're using high beam makes a lot of difference.

Cheers noisy, no need to do the audi's dip as it already has the factory fitted Xenon HIDs, done the sidelights with some nice LEDs, so its just the full beam that needs sorting now.

You're missing the point that Sam is trying to make - HiD lights in a halogen reflector aren't focused properly - they appear brighter as they ARE, close up. They don't throw the beam correctly though so your vision further down the road is actually impaired, doubly so as the bright light closer to you destroys your night vision.

^^^^

fundamental problem indeed

Anyone fitting HIDs in non projector lenses is an arse. Doing it in a Disco where the headlights are more or less head level to other motorists is being a total arse. Anyone I see with HIDs in normal headlights is getting 80w of LED work lamps in their face

I fitted early TD5 lamps in my 300 and they are loads better even with standard bulbs

U need to do this

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-tb2uZd9yc8


With these

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?sbk=1&nav=SEARCH&itemId=231025353136

basicly split ur lamps and then fit the projectors which are basic plug and play bi-xenon ones , if u wanted spray the back and the hid shroud satin black , fit it all back together some silcone ect .

done

Thanks for the advice and ive now purchased some d2 headlights so these will be be ok with the hid's yes?

no

Sorry they're the facelift d2 headlights?

The same applies to D2 facelift headlights; they were originally designed to use filament bulbs and the reflectors specifically formed to produce the correct beam pattern. Unlike many headlight lenses, the facelift ones don't have any beam pattern forming fluting either.

The only advantage of using facelift headlights is the bulbs are individual, not a dipped/main twin filament bulb, so if you really want to try it you could use a 55w xenon bulb such as a nightbreaker in the dipped and a 100w xenon bulb in the main beam light.

Disclaimer: 100 watt lights are unlawful for road use in the UK.