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Ok got round to fitting my hid set, got them from hids4u.co.uk and the quality seems really good! Now I thought I'd do a little walk through. The kit I bought is the h7r reflector so they hopefully won't blind anyone.
Right firstly remove your front bumper, it's only 6 screws and makes the job 10000% easier! 2 screws under the arch and one underneath near the splitter. You can either unclip the grill or take out 2 more screws, I just took it off too.
Now take put your headlamp, 3 more screws and unclip the electrics. Now ypu want to take out your old bulb, it just pulls off the clip like so.
As you can see above you'll need to fix that metal peice onto your shiny new bulb, but as the bulb has wires coming out I had to cut a gap to be able to put it around the base of the bulb
This took awhile as I did it by hand
10mins later.....
Eventually got through and popped it on the back of the bulb
Now you need to pop a 25mm hole on the back rubber and pass the bulb and grommet through, I did this with a 25mm gasket punch, but you can do it with what you like.
So now it should look this this and with the metal clip on the back of the bulb, the hid kit is simple to connect it's just male to female, you can't go wrong!
This was the tricky part trying to get the bulb in place and the best reason to why you need the lamps out, I held my fingers on the sticky out bits and held down and twist, took a few attempts but it goes in!
Now the two spades just push into the black "thing" pictured below, it used to hold the bulb in, yellow to red, black to brown simples.
Now just push this inside like so...
And put the cap on pulling the grommet through
And you done! Nearly. Put the headlamp back and connect up the wires again trial fit with one screw and turn your lights on, if you fitted it all back and it didn't work you've only got yourself to blame
find a home for the ballast and if the bulbs flicker at the start that's fine.. Apparently. Takes around 2 hours all in all and here's the final result
Well it's still daylight!
Right firstly remove your front bumper, it's only 6 screws and makes the job 10000% easier! 2 screws under the arch and one underneath near the splitter. You can either unclip the grill or take out 2 more screws, I just took it off too.
Now take put your headlamp, 3 more screws and unclip the electrics. Now ypu want to take out your old bulb, it just pulls off the clip like so.
As you can see above you'll need to fix that metal peice onto your shiny new bulb, but as the bulb has wires coming out I had to cut a gap to be able to put it around the base of the bulb
This took awhile as I did it by hand
10mins later.....
Eventually got through and popped it on the back of the bulb
Now you need to pop a 25mm hole on the back rubber and pass the bulb and grommet through, I did this with a 25mm gasket punch, but you can do it with what you like.
So now it should look this this and with the metal clip on the back of the bulb, the hid kit is simple to connect it's just male to female, you can't go wrong!
This was the tricky part trying to get the bulb in place and the best reason to why you need the lamps out, I held my fingers on the sticky out bits and held down and twist, took a few attempts but it goes in!
Now the two spades just push into the black "thing" pictured below, it used to hold the bulb in, yellow to red, black to brown simples.
Now just push this inside like so...
And put the cap on pulling the grommet through
And you done! Nearly. Put the headlamp back and connect up the wires again trial fit with one screw and turn your lights on, if you fitted it all back and it didn't work you've only got yourself to blame
find a home for the ballast and if the bulbs flicker at the start that's fine.. Apparently. Takes around 2 hours all in all and here's the final result Well it's still daylight!
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