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Just did this on my 08 Aero
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Posted by Cark (more from Cark) on Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:46:40
In Reply to: Re: Xenon headlights on a 2008 Sportcombi, NCCaniac [Profile/Gallery]
, Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:13:49
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You need a new bulb or bulbs. I had a failing bulb on the passenger side, would go in and out, and occasionally throw the orange warning light in the dash. Sometimes it would work perfectly fine. Finally a week or so ago the bulb died entirely. I bought a pair of Philips bulbs on the Amazon, just because I wanted them to match. There are lots of options out there as far as 4000k, 5000k, 6000k, and beyond. I went for 5000k as I think it's the brightest "white" light, without being too blue.
The best procedure is to removed the entire front bumper and then each headlamp assembly (only 10 screws and 2 pins for the bumper, and 3 screws for each lamp assembly, sounds worse than it is).
I ran into an issue where the little tabs that "grab" the bulb got tweaked and I couldn't install the new bulb completely. It was quite frustrating, but I ended up just bending the tabs a bit with some needle nose pliers and then the bulb slid in no problem.
No more in and out bulbs and/or orange warning light in the dash. The output of the xenons is fantastic, despite many people on the boards preferring the halogens (my wife's 06 has halogens with high end new bulbs and they're nowhere near as good as my xenons).
Good luck!
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Posts in this Thread:
- Xenon headlights on a 2008 Sportcombi, NCCaniac , Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:48:54
- Stepwise - Re: Xenon headlights on a 2008 Sportcombi, Mark in Marine , Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:05:15
- Re: Xenon headlights on a 2008 Sportcombi, Boris Bubbanov, Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:07:13
- Re: Xenon headlights on a 2008 Sportcombi, Stephan Matanovic, Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:45:54
- Level delete procedure??, S-Works, Wed, 28 Nov 2018 03:43:19
- How do you bypass the levelinig function?, don m , Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:56:57
- Re: Xenon headlights on a 2008 Sportcombi, NCCaniac , Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:13:49
- Just did this on my 08 Aero, Cark, Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:46:40 <-- Viewing This Message1
- Thanks, one more question, NCCaniac , Tue, 27 Nov 2018 13:35:39
- Re: Just did this on my 08 Aero, steve, Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:24:36
- Re: Just did this on my 08 Aero, Boris Bubbanov, Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:13:15
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