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you cannot have them unless car is fitted from factory. why not buy some 172/182 headlights? stock fitment and you'll be legal once aligned
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risk losing your car. i don't think so. police have the power to take your car if fitted with dangerous/illegal lights apparently. plus, i wouldn't want to be driving towards you at night.
Evo 6, E92 320d
But isnt it ok with projector type lenses?
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probably get a set off cit-ren seller on ebay for £150 ish?
Evo 6, E92 320d
Thats what i understand, although they wont be strictly legal as we dont have auto leveling.
They are £175 each from cit-ren graham.
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Nope still not legal because of no washers or auto levelling but you'll be fine. At least you won't be blinding people coming the other way unlike the idiots that retrofit hid bulbs into halogen clusters without projectors.
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Nope still not legal because of no washers or auto levelling but you'll be fine. At least you won't be blinding people coming the other way unlike the idiots that retrofit hid bulbs into halogen clusters without projectors.
spot on
spot on
172/182 xenons are roughly £300-£400 i thought?
where in taunton are you bud? are you ever around the Yeovil area?
matt black sells them new for £350.
I would say it's entirely dependant on the MOT tester.
It should be an easy swap back to normal bulbs at MOT time though if you get a plug and play kit off ebay
It should be an easy swap back to normal bulbs at MOT time though if you get a plug and play kit off ebay
Ummm i live on cofe road out near hankridge farm, yeah sometimes i have some mates who live there, you going to the drag race at smeatharpe in march
?They'll be fine as they're behind projectors with the dual optics, whether they'd pass an mot is as said subject to the tester really. But they'd be easy enough to swap back to normal bulbs for the MOT.
clio 182 + cup packs
if your after that blue tinge then its not the bulb that creats that but the projector head lamp its self, the blue you see is the light refracting through the glass ball.
my pet hate is retro fitted hid kits in the wrong headlights cos you cant see f**k all driving towards them.
they wouldnt pass an mot unless fitted to projector headlights(glass bowls) cos the beam pattern is too scarted which is why they glare other drivers
my pet hate is retro fitted hid kits in the wrong headlights cos you cant see f**k all driving towards them.
they wouldnt pass an mot unless fitted to projector headlights(glass bowls) cos the beam pattern is too scarted which is why they glare other drivers
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Whats the best cost / performance solution for getting HID style lamps in a mk1? My £30 'best on the market Philips megas**te' uprated bulbs are no good at all for driving around Yorkshire at top speed in the wee smalls.
PIAA Extreme White Plus H4 (Anti Vibration if you want)
Awesome in mk1s
Awesome in mk1s
Clio
PIAA Extreme White Plus H4 (Anti Vibration if you want)
Awesome in mk1s
I can't help but think they'd be the same as the similarly priced 'accessory of the year' (AutoExpress) Philips X-trashite I just bought.
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/produc...cessory_of_the_year_philips_xtreme_power.html
Just like a £3 bulb with a tiny extra push.
HIDs are on a completely different level,which literally flood the road in front.
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I think if £11 rally bulbs were close to the output of HIDs the market would be somewhat different.
Are there any serious suggestions of how to get very high performance light from the front of an older Clio.
Are there any serious suggestions of how to get very high performance light from the front of an older Clio.
Believe me, they are a million times better than the crap you can buy from halfrauds.PIAA Extreme White Plus H4 (Anti Vibration if you want)
Awesome in mk1s
I can't help but think they'd be the same as the similarly priced 'accessory of the year' (AutoExpress) Philips X-tras**te I just bought.
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/produc...cessory_of_the_year_philips_xtreme_power.html
Just like a £3 bulb with a tiny extra push.
HIDs are on a completely different level,which literally flood the road in front.
MatBrown drove mine when he did some work on it and he commented on them without being prompted iirc.
Where are you? If you're nearby you're welcome to come and have a look
Yes but put uprated halogens in as posted, end of. Theres nothing else you can do, bar get some angel eyes for the projectors and put hid bulbs in them, and most of them you see can't work with hid bulbs as they're not made of UV resistant plastic.
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Believe me, they are a million times better than the crap you can buy from halfrauds.
MatBrown drove mine when he did some work on it and he commented on them without being prompted iirc.
Where are you? If you're nearby you're welcome to come and have a look
I'm glad your friend liked them, but I bought the Philips UltraBright (sposed to be one of the best) and couldn't tell much difference at all after fitting them. There's no way in the world I can drive as fast as I want to at night, and it comes down to the bulbs I'm afraid.
Clio
Are you for real??
Mate of mine has a 200sx, has had an HID kit fitted for over 3 years now and the headlights are still spot on...its had 3 MOT's since he fitted the kit.
Clio
Well, why read the thread then? If you're too inexperienced to know the answer, probly best just to leave it, eh. Timewasting, thread-ending cretin. (I'm sorry, but these sort of people really get on my goat. If this issue wasn't already a problem to me, I wouldn't post the question).
Thanks to everyone else though. Am now searching for HID compatible angel-eyes, but have an extra problem that my Clio is a sleeper (planning a 172 engine upgrade) so don't want to go obviously modern.
Bit more searching needed.....
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