On 10/28/07, David Marshall <mailinglist@fastforward.ca> wrote: > I am considering installing some HID lights in my Westfalia - I am looking > at these ones that you see on eBay and the like that replaces the H4 bulb > with a HID light and the seperate ballast that plugs into the OE > wiring.
Read what Daniel Stern has to say about the HID kits:
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/Hid/conversions/conversions.html
Note the pattern difference between filament and arc lamps. He makes
the point that the Halogen headlamps and HID headlamps require very
different optics to produce a safe and effective—not to mention
legal—beam pattern.
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John Meeks
'91 Multivan, '85 GL bits
Northern Michigan
KC8ZFN
Vanagon Rescue Squad
http://www.vanagonauts.com/Vanagon_Rescue_Squad74.htm
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