Changing front Headlight and fog light bulbs...

[jaedencook]

Not sure on the GTI...
I was the same with Diamond vision, but after seeing them in a car at night on the road they look too blue for my liking. The crystal or platinum are more of a white light and doesn't trip the eyes out as much

[Hooti3]

With single-beam headlamps: H4 12V 60/55W P43T
Beam with double lamp: H7 12V 55W PX26d
Beam with BI-Xenon headlights: 85V 35W D3S PK32d-5
Floor lamp: T10 W5W 12V 5W
Fog lights Normal: H8 12V 35W PGJ19-1
Fog lights Cross: HB4 12V 51W P22d
Rear light: 12V 5W W5W T10
Brake Light: P21W 12V 21W BA15D
Tail light: 12V 21W H21W BAY9s
Rear fog lamp: H21W 12V 21W BAY9s
Normal plate light: 12V 5W W5W T10
Screw plate light: 12V 5W C5W SV8, 5
Flashing light: 12V 21W PY21W BAU15S

Found this on a german site...hmmm..

Which fog lights do I have cross or normal?

[jaedencook]

Interesting... not too sure, i have the sports pack on the Polo and they are H8's.
Maybe the HB4 cross foggies are for the models with driving lights or whatever they are.

[Hooti3]

I have ordered the H7's crystalvisions for the headlights, just unsure of which bulbs for the fog lights. HB4 or H8..

[jaedencook]

Good choice, I would pop one of the foggies open and look. Its easy enough and the whole process is documented in the manual. Tools needed are all in your spare wheel well too...

[gavs]

After playing around with lights quite a bit when I had the 4x4, I have found that the best Halogen bulbs for my tastes are the Narve +80, aka Osram nightbreaker.

I have used both philips crystal and blue vision, narva arctic white, cheap Austra bulbs and Osram nightstalker (Narva +50). My experiences with the diamond vision:

I do a bit of night highway driving, especially in summer up and back from the mornington penninsular. These lights are brillant around town, they light up signs nice and bright and the light spectrum is great off reflectors, but get on a dark, unlit country road and I found them hopeless. The length in the beam throw was much less than cars with standard blubs. Now, I am not sure if this has to do with the reflector design in the Mk4 Golf headlights as the europeans are brilliant at HID technology, but there holgen-reflector lights used to leave alot to be desired. As soon as I put in the nightbreakers, it was different. While in isolation they give a blue appearance but it is a high intensity yellow light which bar HID, is a longer beam due to the colour spectrum, hence why most fog lights are a very definative yellow beam, it can penetrate the fog layer better.

But, I guess I was too late anyway, but if you're looking at upgrading the high beams (don't know how the polo light is structured, if it's seperate or not), look into the nightbreakers, $80-odd a globe, but worth it over most of the competition.

[alias_vw]

Which fog lights do I have cross or normal?

H8 12V 35W

"Cross" means the Polo Cross model which we don't have here in Australia.

[snedden9485]

Roughly What is the price of platinum or diamond bulbs for the polo?

[Spook]

Maverick has an excellent site that covers this topic.

Adding high performance halogen bulbs to your Volkswagen | my-gti.com

[JaneAusten]

Ok, so I have trouble following instructions and taking out the headlight unit to replace my bulbs. Unscrewed the two top screws and I don't understand how to "press the bottom of the headlight out of the guides..." I just don't want to break anything... help?