The lights, even wih a HID conversion, are shite - I live in the arse end of nowhere, every morning and every evening I see nothing a few feet in front of me.
The rattles are driving me mad (particularly the sunroof) as are the brakes which are still squealing after 3 stripdowns and to top it all the radio reception. Save me from part exchange before the tax runs out!

I live in moderately rural France and with Osram Silverstream bulbs the lights are fine. I used to have brake squeal on my old coupe but I think that was the heat shield rubbing. Radio reception is down to poor earthing and it needs a clean. If you find out how to do it let me know! Mine works fine until I put the heated rear windscreen on and then I get massive interfence!

Are you blind or have you not got the Hids adjusted properly. IMHO they make a massive difference, every time i drive the wife's Rover it's like there are two candles in a jar stuck to the front when compared to my Coupe. There is a how to for curing the rattles and my brakes have stopped squealing all on their own

What discs and pads are you running? I find jamming the sunroof cover above the the little runner tab in the centre to stop it rattling.

Has your bonnet been off at one point? I found my lights were rubbish and this improved when the bonnet was re-aligned.

Ross

aye they can be heaps alrite lol...
but there is nuthin to replace them with unless ya win the lotto..great cars...quit your whingin get a pair of nitevision goggles and a big subwoofer that'll sort your problems

ps buy a few cd's and forget the radio

Discs and pads are whatever Motormech fit as standard, OEM?

I have tried getting the passenger to jam every bit of the sunroof but it keeps on rattling.

The bonnet alignment seems OK, I will try raing the beam a little and see if that improves anything. I know how to adjust, is there a how to to get the height right?

I love this car but...

Maybe it is the dark nights of winter...

Thanks Bockers,
The HIDs are much brighter but the cut off is extreme and they don't give much spread. Full beam aren't that much better. The GF's Corsa are like daylight in comparisson even dipped. Ex wife's MR2 better too so the eyes aren't fooked. The GT6's were worse and Puma's only slightly better.
I would pay good money for someone to find and fix the rattles, i have cured a few but the keep on coming.

In my experience OEM pads don't squeal, only the harder fast road pads etc.

HIDs are great, must be adjustment. Adjust under bonnet, in-car height adjuster motors burn out with HIDs fitted

If you know any MOT garages locally, I'm sure they'd spare you a couple of minutes to make sure your headlights were aligned properly. I suspect they just need raised a bit.

I find the HID's are much better than the standard bulbs, yes the cut-off is extreme but the beam pattern is exactly the same. I dont often need to use main-beam because I can see plenty good enough with only dipped beam.

Only problem I ever have with HID's is when it's kinda drizzly and you get a lot of glare.

Cheers
Car has been recently MOTd but I guess they just check that they aren't too high; I will push them up a little tomorrow and see if anyone flashes me!?

try moving the sunroof cover in by about 1cm so it's very nearly fully open, that fixed it for me no more rattles.

Yep ditto, don't fully close the sunroof cover and it should be better...mine rattles if fully closed