It is rather good isn't it PM your email and I'll send you a copy of a 'best of' picture slide that went round work a while ago. Lots of classic ones including the 'erection deck' on a boat and 'freshi fanny'! hahaha. It is always worth taking a look on engrish for a laugh though, some of it is hilarious!

I've got my HIDs in now along with a set of sidelights bulbs for £2.80 off ebay and it looks very good indeed. I've got an issue with my lights' alignment at the moment as posted in another thread but when sorted, i have nio doubt these little fellas will be very good.

A great little mod for a great price (just make sure you DO NOT reconnect the light adjuster cable or they will start dipping at the most inopportune moments... read pitch black road with one car length of lights

Ok , love the idea of this new light thing, just one question . When the bulb / lamp call it what you want does go can you get a replacement ? and where .
Pete.

which one is the light adjuster cable? i havnt took mine off.

Looking at the bottom of the light there is a large plastic lump with a small white dial on it. The cable that goes to this is the adjuster supply, the other cable is power to the lights. The white dial is the manual adjuster for the lights... mine needed a few turns to bring the lights up to the legal limit and is now functioning a lot better

These lights make the car look a lot more modern.

cheers, i will have a look. so u just pull the wire out next to the white thing? got my MOT soon so hope the hids havnt dropped or broke it! (dont think they have) aye, there good.. thinking about trying to do the fogs next.

Replacement bulbs are available, loads on eBAy

Just fitted mine last night. I am so impressed for £35!! The last set I bought was a few years ago for my Ibiza Cupra 20VT and it cost me £300, stunned that I can now by a set of equal quality for just £35. Think I will be buying a set for my van next. Well impressed.

Anybody else still having probs with these cheap HID's?

When I switch to full-beam it's basically a gamble as to whether one light comes on, both lights or neither

I seem to get what can be described as a dull camera flash on one side as the bulb tries to charge up. It lights for a millisecond. I basically have to keep flicking the headlight stalk from dipped to main-beam to force the lights to come on (from cold bulb.) Once the bulbs are heated they'll flick on and off perfectly.

It's a bit frustrating as I drove home the other night with only one light on.

The problem is more noticeable when I turn the lights on when the car is idling but stationary. Perhaps its something to do with the alternator and the varying voltage.

It's a pain because when I do my MOT the car will be stationary and the lights probably won't come on

I have 20A fuses fitted as there is an existing older set on HID's fitted on the car. They work fine.

Maybe I'll get a quick video done to show you what I mean.

I only have them on my dipped beam and they are working perfectly. When I switch them on for the first time, they both flash very brightly and then almost die for a for seconds. After a miniute or so they are very bright. Having noted these characteristics though, I certainly wouldn't want them on the main beam

jap s 55 w on dipped on fully in seconds ...

cheap 35 w on fully in around ten seconds ...

just get used to keeping them warm and they re fine despite having Trappy s doubts before fitting them myself

yes. Mine has passed two MOTs with Hids fitted. The legality is a bit wooly as UK coupes do not have headlight washers or automatic lamp leveling that is required for HIDs evidently. There has been long discussions on this in the past. My personal view is that I would rather see where I was going than rely on the candle in a jam jar look.

ive had mine fitted for some time now had couple of times when only one lamp came on but a quick off/on cured that..........i,ve purchased a cheap set of so called halogen bulbs for the fogs & ive fitted them today, they do look whiter to match the rest, but i,ll know better when its dark as said earlier fitting the kits to the fogs looks a no/no or pretty much so....i,m all set for my first winter with my coop

mine just past its mot with the hids on.. then again it passed with a decat on.

whats the name of that garage lol !

its not what you know, its who u know..

Okay, I've been using the cheap HIDs for a couple of months now without any problems until Thursday. Coming back from work noticed that the O/S headlamp was off and wouldn't come back on, no matter how many times I turned the lights on and off.

Word of warning to anyone running these, my bulb had blown, when it does it took the ballast with it too. Don't do as I did and hook up another ballast to see if it was the actual bulb or the ballast that had gone (it's a pain to remove the bulbs, and you can't actually see the dipped beam bulb as it's obscured by the lense) as this blew the working ballast too. I've now just the one set working on dipped beam only and put the halogens back into full beams for the time being.

my dipped beam still goes off when high beam is turned off, put 20a fuses in aswell.

The ballasts are very sensitive to current/voltage surges and drops, they have safety cut-offs to stop them being damaged by this sort of thing, I guess the wiring is transmitting a surge when you turn off the main and causing the dipped to trip off.

Mine do it if I try and start the car with them on, which isn't surprising when you think how much the voltage must be flying about. Turn them off for a few seconds and they clear and come on normal.

Ioksotot, was it a full or dipped beam bulb that went, as many people have mentioned with full beams the time taken from firing to full light output makes them prohibitive, but another not so well known point is that frequently turning them on and off without giving them time to come up to temperature (+1 min) severely shortens bulb life. I'm surprised it took out the ballasts though, have you tried them now they've had a few days to fully discharge? Might be worth a shot...

Hi Superfly
It was the dipped beam (O/S) that went, when I eventually removed the bulb it was noticably black and charred (just couldn't see this because of the lense in the headlight). Tried the ballasts on the working bulb today and they're both still dead

Ironically, the set that were on the high-beams are absolutely fine, now working on the dipped beams well.

I might actually leave full beams as normal halogens as the delay on the HIDS does make life a bit too interesting

Has anyone tried to match the colour with the brighter halogen bulbs? My standard bulbs are really yellow compared to the HIDs, had the same with my sidelights, but replaced them with LED versions and these look great with the HIDs.

Does anyone have the 90% Night Breaker bulbs fitted (a bit pricey I know @ £23 for a set), will invest if they look whiter than standard though?

Im having a hard time finding a working link to these. Anybody help .

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HID-XENON-CONVERSI...1713.m153.l1262

they have gone up abit since i bought a set have a look around in the shop they will be cheaper ones.

D'oh - i couldn't resist (they work out at around £40 now)

aye, might aswell get the turbo revs group buy.

I've got some fairly blue coloured 100W bulbs as my mains, and even they hardly make a difference, and look quite yellow still! But yes, the LED sides match 6000k HID's perfectly.

Guess it's a choice of practicality or looks...

Think I'm gonna rip out my HID conversion on the Main Beam because it's a gamble if they'll come on or not and if they do they take about 20 seconds before there is any more light being thrown on the road over the dipped beams.

Think I'll search for a whiter standard bulbs

I must admit I've just replaced my hi-beam HIDs with Osram Nightbreakers just because of this daithi, was getting a bit scarry while driving at night.

The Osram's are quite good, not a patch on the HIDs for luminosity but they match the "whiteness" quite well and are 100 times better than the standard halogens.

If you're thinking about doing this, everywhere else is selling these for about £18 each bulb, but I found these guys that are selling them for £18.60 for a set of 2, and free postage.

What's the name of the ebay shop selling these, haven't got around to buying any yet, shall have a look at the group buy bit for turbo revs ad too.

Diane Shop , you have to look around as their prices fluctuate a bit, and you need H1's if you don't know

Thanks for the info ioksotot. I think I'll invest in some of these asap