Replaced the drivers main beam light a few months back with Bluevision bulbs, and guess what :eek: Yep, you guessed it!

It blew last night on my way home from work. I am definately getting the correct bulbs I am sure but someone please refresh my memory on which ones I should be using just incase.

That's another

Perfect excuse to replace them with some Rallye 100W bulbs

Chris

When you put them you must not touch any glass parts with your hands only the metal part(which you screw). This was my mistake and i blew 5 bulbs in short period of time. I hope you understood me

Perfectly mate! it's just awkward to do without touching the bulb because there isn't much room.

Chris, The Raylle 100W Off road bulbs have never gone. It's the main beam which keeps going, not the full beam.

Perfectly mate! it's just awkward to do without touching the bulb because there isn't much room.

Chris' date=' The Raylle 100W Off road bulbs have never gone. It's the main beam which keeps going, not the full beam.[/quote']

main beam = dipped beam? :confused: :P

I had one blow last week, went to a SCC meet and changed the bulb there and then. It's not hard to not touch the glass.

Take off headlamp rear cover, disconnect wire, undo clip, remove bulb, taking not which way "up" it goes (rotation).

Holding just the metal plate of the new one, inser in position, making sure it locks in it's correct seating, and whilst holding the bulb's rear end with one hand, use your other hand to put the retaining clip back. Then reconnect the wires.

Job done

Full beam and main beam are the same thing. I have blown quite a few dipped beam bulbs too - Both my vision plus went recently, with 2 weeks of one another, and replaced with oem spares I had. But they were a good 2 years old.

Main beams have been ultra reliable. In fact they're so reliable they're actually starting to fade a little bit in the power stakes, but are still better than standard. My 100w bulbs have been with Jon for god knows how long -I suspect a couple of years, and I had them in my Fabia a year before I crashed and now over 2 years since taking furby mk2.... Thats a good service for some high intensity bulbs.

But furby's just seem to like blowing dipped beam bulbs more often.... No idea why though.

for repeated dipped beam bulb failures there is a reistance wire kit available at your dealers to stop this happening.

Interesting info that K.

I bet a lot of people are replacing bulbs when they don't need to if this kit is a fix for that. SWMBO has had 2 changed in as many months.

Is this kit warranty work?

Chris, The Raylle 100W Off road bulbs have never gone. It's the main beam which keeps going, not the full beam.

Ah the dipped beam has blown Time for some Osram Silverstars :P

Chris

Is this kit warranty work?

no.

Can't imagine it being that expensive as it's a bit of resistor wiring?

The coated 'blue' look bulbs do have a reduced life (due to the coating), and also due to the fact that they are usually overrun to get any light at all out of the things! They look stupid too!

I like them

Another bulb in the wife's gone.

What is it with modern bulbs/lights? There seem to be loads with one bulb out.

Stopped using 'uprated/performance' bulbs for this reason, never found one thats last as long as a 'normal' cheap one....

Another bulb in the wife's gone.

What is it with modern bulbs/lights? There seem to be loads with one bulb out.

Yeah every car on the road seems to have a rear brake/tail light not working. Bizarrely, I can't remember the last time I needed to change a bulb (other than uprating my headlights when I first get the car!)

Chris

i went through a stage of having to change a bulb about every 2 weeks on my polo when i was using the blue ones. went back to using oe style ones and never had many more problems.....

and as for fitting them without touching them... the are special cotton gloves available for fitting lamps.. i used these in the theatre and they are brilliant for not getting the lamps covered in $hite before fitting