What Temperature are the Xenons/HID that come as an option on the octavia.

6000k or 8000k?

Cheers,

Dan

4300k

Cheers, im kinda suprised with that

Cheers, im kinda suprised with that

Why's that??

Cheers, im kinda suprised with that

Stock Xenon is 4300k (might be 5000k actually) which gives a white light.6k and 8k are very blue and 10k up is purple!

HID color chart | Xenon colour chart

Having used 6000k and 4300k the 4300k is much nicer to drive with

oh right fair enough, maybe im not so suprised, looking at other colour charts i expected them to be fairly high up in the Kelvin range

Just wondered as I like the colour of my standard xenons, would like the same when I upgrade my passat

Some people think bigger number = better.

Beyond 6k, you're effectively wasting light and reducing what you see.

fair enough, I like them because there not too blue, nice and white,

You ever get that feeling when you see bright blue headlights your going to see some clapped out 3 series coupe coming the other way?

4300k-5000k gives the best performance imo. 6000k and above you end up with less light output becuase of the colour changes!

For best performance and night driving then 4300-5000k is the dealo!

4300k to 5000k it shall be then, cheers guys

Does anyone else feel that their xenons are angled slightly too high? Nobody flashes me or anything like that, but when I look at my car with the lights on, I'm not sure I'd like to be driving towards it at night.

Have you had them checked?

Many have had issues with the stored value, or that they were never aligned at PDI

I've had my vRS back to the dealers twice now to have the lights lowered. I still feel they are too high, as anytime the road is anything except dead flat and level I can often see into the passenger compartment of other cars. Worst is when the road is curving away to the left and going downhill at the same time (in a RHD country). I don't like glare from other cars, so I feel bad that mine is dazzling other drivers uneccessarily.

Seen this batted around a few times here.

Apparantly most dealers didn't realise that they had to allign the lights initially through vag-com so lost of cars with xenons don't have the autoleveling function of the lights working properly.

Worth checking!

And totally agree about the colour temp... so many cars I've seen where they have clearly swapped the stock 4300/5000k lights for about 8k and it just looks terrible... very blinding i think is that purple/blue colour!

Phil

Most OEM lights are 4100-4300, and you'll have to look far and wide to find a 5000k bulb.

You can see how some of the common chinese xenon bulbs shine in the image below, but beyond 8k they are hard to find.

You can also see the light output is significantly reduced, as instead of using the entire spectrum to illuminate the subject with white light (white is all the colors combined) you're just using the blue portion of it. To make things worse, your eyes are not that sensitive to blue light.

yup, 4300 deffinatly looks like the light that would be of most use