Right boys and girls, another thread to turn into oil

Yes I know there's loads of great info on hid's here, just can't find the little bit of info I'm after!

Have many people done a hid conversion on mk2 facelift silver headlight vrs, the ones with two bulbs per headlight unit?

I've read lots of posts about the black light, with one H7 serving and low and high beam.

Mine have two H7 bulbs per headlight, one for low, one for high.

Question being, has anyone done a conversion on both bulbs and were they successful?

Or do I just upgrade the low beam projector and put in 'xenon' type halogen bulbs for the high beam, just to keep them a similar colour?

Thanks once again!

Oooh goodiee, another thread from someone too idle or stupid to use the Search facility.

You need to back off sunshine.

I'M NEW TO THE SKODA THING AND ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE FOR INFO I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND FOR MYSELF!

Thank you for being helpful and making yourself seem like a tool!

THANK YOU THOSE WHO HAVE OFFERED ASSISTANCE!!

Oooh goodiee, another thread from someone too idle or stupid to use the Search facility.

Unnecessarily harsh and rude but basically correct. I put 'HID' into the search facility and was immediately presented with masses of informative posts.

Yes, indeed.

What I could not find was reference to changing BOTH bulbs in each unit.

Thank you all and goodbye.

I have done the conversation on both and it's great. I to have the silver headlights.

Mac, I would personally only do the conversion on the low beam projector lens bulbs and upgrade the high beams to something like night breakers. The reason being, the high beam also function as the 'flash' and they aren't designed to do this as they take a few seconds to warm up and so are not always visible when you think you have flashed at someone, also these bulbs have limited life and although it's not a particularly short life it goes on the number of 'cold starts' they do, if your using them to flash and flicking them on and off for high beam they are not going to last long.

PS some members can't help themselves from making useless comments, it seems it's just too hard for them to continue scrolling if they have no intention of answering the question. Some people might call them 'keyboard warriors' but I think 'tool' also covers it.

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If people used the search button all the time forums would be dead.

I've upgraded mine to 5000k HIDs but only for dipped beam. For the high I purchased these http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/mtec-100w-super-white-natural-glass-bulbs-h1-h3-h4-h7-9004-9005-9006-9007/ and they are pretty white.

Oooh goodiee, another thread from someone too idle or stupid to use the Search facility.

 

This isn't the message we want to be giving to new members.

 

Briskoda is a friendly place where everyone is welcome to join and contribute within reason (your post is neither friendly, or useful). We don't shoot down members for not using the search feature. Like LGM mentioned, the sub forums would be pretty dead if people just used the search feature. There's only so much new content about Skoda's LOL!

 

If you don't like what you read, move on and ignore it. If you were in the pub or out and about and didn't like what a group of burly looking men were talking about, would you pipe up then and imply that they were stupid?

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Cheers for restoring my faith boys!

Thanks, you folks have confirmed what I was thinking about both bulbs.

Thanks!

Cheers for restoring my faith boys!

Thanks, you folks have confirmed what I was thinking about both bulbs.

Thanks!

Doesn't seem to matter where you go there is always a few rotten apples. Just got to ignore them and carry on as you were.

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I concur with all the comments except those from vxh26. He/she's fun to ignore when he/she trolls. He/she has considered a range of vehicles and trolled a variety of internet fora without actually apparently buying any of the vehicles.

 

And now to be helpful as I actually have some experience.

 

I've got the silver headlamps and HIDs in the dip beam. Key problem is that you want main/high beam instantly at full brightness.  HIDs come on initially very bright for a quick flash but then drop back to a warm up phase that takes up to 30 seconds to achieve full brightness. The life of the bulbs is seriously reduced when used for less than 10 seconds.  HIDs on dip beam and decent normal bulbs on main beam are the solution. 

 

In case you weren't aware the beam pattern on main beam will be rubbish with HIDs as it's a reflector and they only really provide a decent beam pattern with a projector lamp which your dip beam has.

Right boys and girls, another thread to turn into oil

Yes I know there's loads of great info on hid's here, just can't find the little bit of info I'm after!

Have many people done a hid conversion on mk2 facelift silver headlight vrs, the ones with two bulbs per headlight unit?

I've read lots of posts about the black light, with one H7 serving and low and high beam.

Mine have two H7 bulbs per headlight, one for low, one for high.

Question being, has anyone done a conversion on both bulbs and were they successful?

Or do I just upgrade the low beam projector and put in 'xenon' type halogen bulbs for the high beam, just to keep them a similar colour?

Thanks once again!

ive done both in my silver headlights

 

but its not practical.

 

the high beam takes too long to warm up and you soon blow the burner as HID's really dont like cycling on/off. 

 

Once it does warm up though, it is brilliant, whilst it works. 

 

i wouldn't do it again. id have HID's 4000k in the dipped beam and Osram Nightbreakers in high beam. Thats the best all-round set up 

Cheers for restoring my faith boys!

Thanks, you folks have confirmed what I was thinking about both bulbs.

Thanks!

 

Yeah dont listen to VXH. He is unfortunately a forum spammer, and a complete arse. 

 

Hope the rest of us have answered the question though. 

 

cheers. 

oli

I concur with all the comments except those from vxh26. He/she's fun to ignore when he/she trolls. He/she has considered a range of vehicles and trolled a variety of internet fora without actually apparently buying any of the vehicles.

 

And now to be helpful as I actually have some experience.

 

I've got the silver headlamps and HIDs in the dip beam. Key problem is that you want main/high beam instantly at full brightness.  HIDs come on initially very bright for a quick flash but then drop back to a warm up phase that takes up to 30 seconds to achieve full brightness. The life of the bulbs is seriously reduced when used for less than 10 seconds.  HIDs on dip beam and decent normal bulbs on main beam are the solution. 

 

In case you weren't aware the beam pattern on main beam will be rubbish with HIDs as it's a reflector and they only really provide a decent beam pattern with a projector lamp which your dip beam has.

the beam pattern was fine when i did it tbh. The high beam was still focused on a spot much further down the road like it is with halogens

 

however, the extra brightness of the HID's meant you could see much further. It was litterally like driving in the day once theyd warmed up. it was fantastic. 

 

just a shame they lasted about 2 months before blowing a burner due to the cycling. Its difficult not to turn on your high beam unless youve got atleast 30 seconds before turning them off again.. quite alot happens in 30 seconds haha. 

 

if i was mainly driving in the middle of the night (perhaps doing a long drive twice a week at about 3am, as some people do) id put them back in again.. but any other time theres just too much oncoming traffic and too much cycling. 

That's brilliant info chaps, exactly the info I was after!

Going to do the dipped beams and use decent bulbs as main beam.

I suspected that doing a conversion on flash/ main beam wouldn't be good for the hid units!

Thanks one and all!

Well except for one very special individual......

That's brilliant info chaps, exactly the info I was after!

Going to do the dipped beams and use decent bulbs as main beam.

I suspected that doing a conversion on flash/ main beam wouldn't be good for the hid units!

Thanks one and all!

Well except for one very special individual......

Yeah flash on high is pretty rubbish.

Ive had hids in bikes too. I soon learn that flashing (in the headlight, but i dont flash either ) was a waste of time.

Sometimes with halogens you can simply fash and let people go, as it seems the right thing to do, but once you try flashing with a HID you dont know if theyve seen it or if it wasnt all that visible, so then you start wondering if its safe to drive on or if they have seen it and are about to pull out.

So you result to not flashing and not letting anyone go apart from if they can see your hand signals.

Although. I once had a guy flashing at me constantly for me low beam (i was going over the brow of a hill) so i gave him 4x HID's in return. He cant have been happy. He did stop flashing though..

I am considering doing this to the wives Fabia but not sure whether to go for a CAN-BUS friendly setup or not?

 

Thoughts?

From what I understand it's got to be a canbus set up.

Otherwise it will cause fault codes.

I am considering doing this to the wives Fabia but not sure whether to go for a CAN-BUS friendly setup or not?

 

Thoughts?

 

It has to be Can-Bus.. otherwise itll pull an error on the dash