Headlight / Headlamp Upgrades (Bi-Xenon / HID / LED / Replicas)

[VRN510]

M4RK0's MK6 Kraftwerk GTI - Page 40
M4RK0's MK6 Kraftwerk GTI
Look a few pages forward and back of that.

Thanks for the response.
Was really hoping for somebody who is in my area and able to give me a hand installing them, i've looked at tutorials and all that jazz but would rather get a set of experienced hands working on my car, rather than me doing it and doing something wrong, leading to no headlights lol

[VRN510]

If it helps anyone, this is the kit I purchased (came with bulb holders)
EDX V1 HID H7 Xenon KIT FOR VW Golf GTI Mkvi MK6 8000K | eBay

[nat225]

If it helps anyone, this is the kit I purchased (came with bulb holders)
EDX V1 HID H7 Xenon KIT FOR VW Golf GTI Mkvi MK6 8000K | eBay

if it helps you to know that fitting those HID bulbs in halogen headlamps designed specifically to reflect halogen bulb beam... it will:

- annoy oncoming drivers by the glare
- simply illegal
- heaps of other risks and etc etc....

won't say any further but make sure you are aware of what you are doing..

personally i hate any encounter with oncoming cars with HID bulbs retroffited into halogen headlamps due to the blinding glare

[VRN510]

I'm aware, and I don't do a great deal of night driving, but when I do it's 10:30pm onwards and a 10min drive home from my partners house with no police/traffic around, so not hurting anyone

[VRN510]

I'm aware, and I don't do a great deal of night driving, but when I do it's 10:30pm onwards and a 10min drive home from my partners house with no police/traffic around, so not hurting anyone

Well this, and I'll eventually upgrade to projectors in a month or so. This isn't a permanent thing.

[tonymy01]

Oh, I thought you bought the proper HID kit as in headlight assembly, wiring loom, leveller etc. If just a globe replacement is a piece of piss to fit, just need to find somewhere to clip the ballast in safely, swap out globe, connect to loom, done (if not designed for "canbus" you may get globe out errors.

I had the Jaycar H4 ones (with the electromagnet low/high adjuster) in my WRX and the light cut off on low beam was very good (they came with holder that had shield built in, you could see a very good vertical demarcation), was never flashed by incoming cars once, unlike when I tried 80/100W cheapie H4 halogen that didn't go into the lens focus point properly and glared all over the place...

P.s it was lighting, Bluetooth integration, Sat nav integration & cool mfd features that helped me decide to get rid of the ancient rex and get an R...as I knew the HID globes were not legal (giant bug eyes must have shone pretty brightly LOL) and knew that most Euro cars offer HID standard..and it was just so nice to get all these things standard in an R.

[VRN510]

As easy as you make it out to be, from the YouTube video I have watched it's going to be hard work, so if anyone is able to give me a hand id very much appreciate it.

Cheers

[VRN510]

So they arrived today, anybody keen to give me a hand? lol

[VRN510]

Finally installed, Phillips 8000K HID kit
Massive improvement over stock and still yet to have someone flash their lights at me after my 2hr drive home this evening.

[tonymy01]

Please tell me photo 2 is with high beams on? If not, then ouch, there is very poor cut off and huge glare...
Photo 3 cut off looks not too bad but very difficult to tell from a photo as cameras tend to be poor at night.