R36 headlights

[Cro]

Of course 100w globes will beat the xenons, the difference is that the xenons are legal. I'm suprised that you didn't get done, cause an accident or yellow out your reflectors due to the exess heat....

Back on topic, the xenons are better for low&high beam than any halogen standard setup I have driven (including the Ba/bf falcons which have fantastic output). They are not the best xenons I have seen but I also didn't spend 150k+ on the car.

Comming from the light output i was used to in my old ba falcon which had 6x 55w+ 50% and 2x 100w lightforce spotties when on highbeam I wish the xenons had about 200m more reach. Good compromise though, no more need for ugly bars and lights on the front of such a nice car.

[DJC]

So general opinion is they are pretty damn good by the sound of it

[Rocket36]

Thanks for blinding everyone with your illegal headlights. How is your illegal headlight modification a fair comparison to legal headlights?

The Bi-Xenons on the R36 would outperform your illegal headlights easily, it's easy to confuse having lots of light scattering around with having good headlights.



There is a reason for the lack of light above the cut off point! You have projector lenses and this is to prevent you doing what you did in your Falcon and that's blind oncoming traffic .

LMAO! Great post... I can't believe it - I've agreed with you twice in 2 minutes. Hahaha!

Scattered light from reflector headlights, even if brighter is nowhere near as good as self leveling projector HID lights.

[Caddyman]

Thanks for blinding everyone with your illegal headlights. How is your illegal headlight modification a fair comparison to legal headlights?

The Bi-Xenons on the R36 would outperform your illegal headlights easily, it's easy to confuse having lots of light scattering around with having good headlights.



There is a reason for the lack of light above the cut off point! You have projector lenses and this is to prevent you doing what you did in your Falcon and that's blind oncoming traffic .

OK my bad, what I meant to say was that I put 55/100w bulbs in the outer (main lights) so when on high beam it had 4 x 100W lights, on low beam it was still the 55W as per standard, I was not for a moment talking about low beam performance, just high beam.

Seems there is a lot of people that want to jump on others for doing something "illegal, wrong, stupid" etc????

As far as I know you cannot buy 100W low beam globes for exactly that reason, maybe if some of you had thought for a moment you may have realised this?

Matthew

[Maverick]

OK my bad, what I meant to say was that I put 55/100w bulbs in the outer (main lights) so when on high beam it had 4 x 100W lights, on low beam it was still the 55W as per standard, I was not for a moment talking about low beam performance, just high beam.

Seems there is a lot of people that want to jump on others for doing something "illegal, wrong, stupid" etc????

Maybe because a lot of people are sick of being blinded on the road.

As far as I know you cannot buy 100W low beam globes for exactly that reason, maybe if some of you had thought for a moment you may have realised this?

You can purchase them off the shelf the auto stores.

Seeing as you're talking about high beam performance you can assist the bi-xenons by Vagcoming the high beam halogens to operate when you have high beams on.

[DJC]

Seeing as you're talking about high beam performance you can assist the bi-xenons by Vagcoming the high beam halogens to operate when you have high beams on.

What am I missing here?

[maca]

Sorry to dissappoint you here, but I find them rather average, I used to have a 2006 BF Fairmont Ghia, which I put 100 watt bulbs in both low and high beam, absolutely amazing lights and is the biggest dissapointment of my R36.... funny thing is that it was the only really good thing about the Ford..!

Yes, following the steering is cool and of good use on windy roads, but the depth of light is appauling, I also find that there is absolutely no light at all projected above the cut off on low beam so if you are going through a dip you cannot see anything further on, maybe I am going too fast??

Matthew

Not sure if you can do it on cars with the HID but have you tried manuall raising them from the Headlight cluster? (Using a screw driver to raise them from a small port in the top side). That may just do the trick for ya

[Caddyman]

Seeing as you're talking about high beam performance you can assist the bi-xenons by Vagcoming the high beam halogens to operate when you have high beams on.

What am I missing here?

I don't understand either, to quote a famous fish and chip shop owner, "please explain" ?

thanks

Matthew

[Rocket36]

Seeing as you're talking about high beam performance you can assist the bi-xenons by Vagcoming the high beam halogens to operate when you have high beams on.

What am I missing here?

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AFAIK the halogen globes are the side turning lights not high beam. I can't see another halogen in my headlight assembly that looks like it's for high beam.

[Rocket36]

Not sure if you can do it on cars with the HID but have you tried manuall raising them from the Headlight cluster? (Using a screw driver to raise them from a small port in the top side). That may just do the trick for ya

Can't be done. They're self levelling...