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, Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:16:50
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Yep, I know I'm dreary one but that's what I am.
Austin, to my experience tons of such complains are not about bulbs but headlights ageing. I mean you can even put D4S (the most powerful HID bulb, 50W) there but it'll be b\s not a headlight.
1. Start with checking the reflector. This guy stands for accumulating all bulb's output and putting it out onto the road. If you can't find it perfect then you're either to restore it or replace it. I restored Flop's reflectors sending them to a plant having special vacuum equipment and they renewed the surface. Flop was M1984 with eu headlights and nowadays there are no replacement reflectors or glasses or headlight units so the restoration was the only way. But here come glasses (lenses) so check the next step below.
2. Glasses. Or lenses, whatever. If they're old and sanded and they look milky-like then they hold up reflector's output. Common value for 10 year lenses (100K mileage) is about 10-20%. Not too much but just FIY H4 bulbs have 50% output comparing to D2S/D2R output. What to do? Polish them (he-he, damn hard job even for experienced guy. Special equipment and experience required if this is about glass lenses; plastic lenses are much more easy to deal with but the go bad much faster as well) or replace them.
3. Got new lenses and new reflector? OR even just new headlight units? Now it's time to choose the bulb. To my experience the best ones are from Osram and Philips. They've got plenty of product lines (smth about Silver... and Allweather... and much more) so you have a wide range to choose from. GE's a bit worse and... I dont' like GE since it was founded by guy I really don't like (Thomas E.). But it's up to you. Just don't go down to Hella or Lucas or Supa-Dupa-150% Bright Zenon. The first two ones DON'T produce bulbs and order them to ROC OEM suppliers and the last one is that very supplier from ROC that decided to come to the end-user market.
I've never been to US but I've seen many US cars here. New and old. EU conversion is a really good way to go since they much better highlight the road comparing to US headlights.
Zig
P.S.
I don't advise you to go to HID conversion. The only way to go here is to install HID lenses (projectors) but it's REALLY hard.
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, Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:42:16, Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:16:50, Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:36:34, Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:48:28
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