Hope fully this works. The image is from installing my 4300K HID kit from HIDSdirect.co.uk into high beams (H3)

Both dipped beams are halogen, left high beam is the HID kit (can you tell?) and the right high beam is halogen

from hid-direct?

these ones: http://www.hids-dire...onversion-kits/ ?

no, mine are a mash up. I origanally had an 8000k from ebay in them. (H7) one of ballasts went down after a about and year and abit. ( out of warrenty ) bought a fresh ballast and came across some H7R's. I'd look at these. 55w, more powerful im thinking on purchasing these and just having the others as my Main beam.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/55W-XENON-HID-CONVERSION-KIT-H7-H7R-AUDI-A4-96-02-/300533140884?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item45f92bcd94#ht_2583wt_1346

Ah haa it worked

Second photo is of just my dipped beams (halogen) at night on an unlit road. The bulbs are H7 Ring Automotive +120%

Hope fully this works. The image is from installing my 4300K HID kit from HIDSdirect.co.uk into high beams (H3)

Both dipped beams are halogen, left high beam is the HID kit (can you tell?) and the right high beam is halogen

Yeah worked, They dont seem to be very bright? i guess its because there 4300k?

And last but not least, the same road as above, but with the high beams with the 4300K HID kit fully installed

My only real critisism with the HID kit in high beams is the warm up time, oh and not being able to flash very well! I've seen videos where they only take like 3 seconds to warm up, where mine took about a minute ... no really! Which annoyed me when using them, warming, warming, warming, warming, bright, bright, brighter, we can start to see now, brighter, then a car comes the other way :(

But when they were up to full whack, my god were they bright!!

**EDIT**

Thats not a car coming the other way up the hill, thats how bright they are!

Edited 10 August, 201213 yr by Mike18Clark

4,300k gives you the most usable light. As you go up the scale you gain 'blueness' but lose light output. 4,300 is around OEM, most seem to go for 5-6,000k. Personally, I like 5kk myself.

Edit - cheaper ballasts take longer to warm up. My current ones in the BMW take a while, which is why I'm glad they're bi-xenon, makes flashing with them easy (as long as the dipped beams are on!)

The OEM ones in my Polo take literally a second or two, and the ones in my old RX-8 were near instant. Strangely, in the Mazda if you flashed someone it would use the halogen full and xenon dipped!

Edited 10 August, 201213 yr by TriggerFish

Mine are from Hidsdirect.com the £50 quidder ones, which I think are the same as yours triggerfish?

Think I'll end up getting some H7R bulbs soon

Yeap, same as mine. Takes them about 10-20seconds I'd guess to get up to a usable brightness, but I can't really tell when they stop warming up. I can see why the VW ones were around that price, per ballast, per side given the faster warm up times!

You can see the VW warm up times there (the behind shoot is easier to tell):

Don't worry, the annoying beep has gone now I've got VAGCOM!

Yeap, same as mine. Takes them about 10-20seconds I'd guess to get up to a usable brightness, but I can't really tell when they stop warming up. I can see why the VW ones were around that price, per ballast, per side given the faster warm up times!

You can see the VW warm up times there (the behind shoot is easier to tell):

Don't worry, the annoying beep has gone now I've got VAGCOM!

Jesus they are quick! I quite like the beep, I'd only have it when locking the car so I don't have to go running back thinking "did I lock it" when I know I have.

Would love VAGCOM or vcds whichever I need for the fab, but can't justify the money for something that I'd use soo little

Lock bleep is good, unlock bleep was just annoying! - on that car the C/L is air powered, there's no 'clunk' to let you know it's worked, so I've still got the lock bleep on.

To fault read with it, the cable is only a few ££ (also found out the same lead works on my BMW too!) to use VCDS-Lite (VAGCOM is it's old name btw), but it's a lot more to get the proper versions. :(

If you were closer I'd offer to help out with it, but it's a bit of a trek down to you!

Lock bleep is good, unlock bleep was just annoying! - on that car the C/L is air powered, there's no 'clunk' to let you know it's worked, so I've still got the lock bleep on.

To fault read with it, the cable is only a few ££ (also found out the same lead works on my BMW too!) to use VCDS-Lite (VAGCOM is it's old name btw), but it's a lot more to get the proper versions. :(

If you were closer I'd offer to help out with it, but it's a bit of a trek down to you!

If you were to help out it would be me comming to you lol. I know there's the list of people with vag-com and VCDS, but it's a lot of work for a beep lol. And so far in over a year and 40,000 miles it's not let me down once so no fault codes needing to be found (hopefully) yet

Maywell have been asked before, but is there a real difference between getting HIDS and xenon bulbs from mtec?