Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:46:29 -0800
Reply-To: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From: David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject: Re: HIDs on a Vanagon?
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Ha ha - those "Bosch" lights are funny and obviously fake!
This is what I would call a HID retrofit kit for halogen lights.
Reading some of the eBay auctions out there they say stuff like "the
quality is so go we write made in Japan on them" - sort of makes you
think!
The blue tinted halogen bulbs often marketed at Xenon
are pure crap!
Just got some H11 3000K HID for the wife's
Touareg in the mail today to replace the halogen fog lights with something
a little brighter and yellower. Slim ballast style - $90 delivered
from China - no brand name on the ballasts, no country names written -
pretty simple inexpensive stuff. The manual has lots of fine
examples of "Chenglish" in it but it looks like a pretty typical
quality for this kind of kit. Same kit that I have in my BMW F650GS
(only H3 and 4300K) and so far so go for that.
I'll take photos
of it and a write a review of it on my hasenwerk.ca site soon.
David Marshall
VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider
http://www.hasenwerk.ca
On Wed, December 10, 2008 18:40,
Chris S wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm confused. I thought all along
were talking about HID
> conversion, not Xenon racer wannabee,
like this:
>
>
http://www.dhgate.com/BOSCH-HID-CONVERSION-KIT-H4-6000K-HI-LO-DUAL/p_ff808081175c785901175f337eb61efe.html
>
>
> 2008/12/10 Andrew Grebneff
<goose1047@gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:24
AM, David Marshall
>> <mailinglist@fastforward.ca>
wrote:
>>> I don't think that would be a great idea either -
if good lighting is
>>> all
>>> about correct
focus and distribution of light, then the offset from
>>>
center
>>> high beam would result in poor light as
well...
>>
>>
>> It would probably form
no beam at all. The bulb HAS to be at the focal
>> point
(center) of the lens.
>>
>>
From what I have
seen on the web, the so-called "HID" (which are just
>> filamented halogen-type bulbs with xenon instead of iodide gas)
are
>> designed for boy-racer types wanting blue lights.
>>
>> True HID lights don't have filaments, which is
why they are also
>> called gas-discharge lights... the gas
itself is what gives off light,
>> not a hot glowing tungsten
element. This is also why they don't come
>> in little boxes...
they need really high voltages and current to work.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Grebneff
>> Dunedin, New
Zealand
>> Fossil preparator
>> Mollusc, Toyota
& VW van nut
>> Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
>> <goose1047@gmail.com>
>>
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