Date:         Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:26:43 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Ecode light report
Comments: To: "Chris S." <MrPolak@YAHOO.COM>
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At 11:07 6/15/2004, Chris S. wrote:
>I installed Cibie H4 ecode headlights in Hershey
>(http://www.knology.net/~vwghost/hershey/) last night.  If you haven't
>done this already, what are you waiting for?

We bin a-telling em for years...I bin driving E-codes since 1971 and
they're just as good now -- (but the stock US-code lights have gotten worse
overall because the custom shapes vary widely in performance).  Every new
user is a new convert, but somehow it doesn't seem to make much impression
on people who haven't tried them.

>  The difference is tremendous
>with a flat, wide, even  beam of light which lights up the entire roadway
>and the sides instead of projecting just two hot spots in the middle as
>with the DOT headlamps - these are MUCH better than Sylvania Xtra Vision
>on Camel (http://www.knology.net/~vw/dadada.jpg).  It's an easy upgrade
>since the H4 bulbs plug into the existing sockets.  It was well worth my
>$40.

YO! PEOPLE!  Listen to this man, he's got good advice for ya!  E-Codes
WORK!  E-Codes DON'T BLIND ONCOMING TRAFFIC!*  YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE GIANT
BULBS AND MELT YOUR WIRES, THEY WORK GREAT JUST AS THEY COME!

*When you're overtaking, there's a brief period when the car you're passing
is in the part of the beam that rises to illuminate roadside signs.  In 30+
years of using these lights I've had one overtaken vehicle complain.  The
rest of the time...you can see quite a way down the road.  You can see the
cutoff line on the trunk of the car ahead, and because of the sharp cutoff
it doesn't bother him a bit.  IMHO US-code lights should be outlawed as
suicidally dangerous and the lighting companies and their engineers should
be mulcted of heavy damages and publicly pilloried for cynical acquiescence
to the sorry situation.

--
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"