Has anyone done a guide for fitting hids to the octavia II on here?

I have asked before but im going to fit mine this w'end onto the RS

Please no-one comment on the legally of aftermarket HIDS! it boring! :thumbdwn:

Cheers for any help! any tips of where to mount ballasts etc would be a bonus!

if you get a half decent kit, they should come with the connections to just plug into the wires that normally go into the bulb. then you need to route the wires back out to the ballast pack. then the last set of wires back through to the actual HID bulb, which mounts in the normal way into the light.

ive not done one to a skoda but thats basically what i did to get mine rigged in. for mounting the balasts i drilling into the inner wings just behind the lights themselves. keeping them relativley dry.

Out of interest which kit and colour temperature have you gone for? I was contemplating the Virtual Daylight kit which is 8k and available at Awesome for around £140 IIRC

Out of interest which kit and colour temperature have you gone for? I was contemplating the Virtual Daylight kit which is 8k and available at Awesome for around £140 IIRC

i beleive that mine are 8k as they are very white natural looking light. brilliant to drive with and best of all ive not had anyone flash me to say they are too bright

Id be interested in a highbeam hid kit.

Sorry should have said i have done it before - just wanted to know which was the live wire etc colours......

I have gone for 10,000K ones as i like them to stay a little blue - had them on my M3 before and they looked awesome.

How easy do the lights come out? and would there be enough room on the bumper carrier for the ballasts?

How much of a difference are the HIDs compared to the standard bulbs? As at the moment I find my light pretty good.

cheers

How much of a difference are the HIDs compared to the standard bulbs? As at the moment I find my light pretty good.

cheers

loads better imoa. the quality of light is so crisp it makes it so easy to drive at night as the light output is of a similar quality to daylight.

i fitted factory xenons to my girlfriends car and after driving hers for one night i felt i needed xenons on my own car!

How easy do the lights come out? and would there be enough room on the bumper carrier for the ballasts?

I did a guide to changing the headlight bulbs on an Octy II (non-Xenon) which shows removal of the headlamp units - it might be a help....

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/technical-guides/new-octavia-headlight-bulb-change/69565/

I have gone for 10,000K ones as i like them to stay a little blue - had them on my M3 before and they looked awesome.

A Little blue:eek:

10,000k will be very blue!

Basically, the lower the colour temperature, the less blue and the more light output, most manufacturers O/E bulbs are around the 5 - 6,000k so even 8,000k will look quite blue.

Personally, I want to find some lamps with a lower colour temperature than my Mondeos standard HID's to improve the actual light output, I'm not bothered about the colour, personally the whiter the light the better, and they still look better than any halogens with there yellow light!

A Little blue:eek:

10,000k will be very blue!

Basically, the lower the colour temperature, the less blue and the more light output, most manufacturers O/E bulbs are around the 5 - 6,000k so even 8,000k will look quite blue.

Personally, I want to find some lamps with a lower colour temperature than my Mondeos standard HID's to improve the actual light output, I'm not bothered about the colour, personally the whiter the light the better, and they still look better than any halogens with there yellow light!

well i have 8k ones and they arent blue. but my friends 6k ones are very blue. my 8k ones look whiter than the factory ones ive seen

I thought white was about 6K (daylight being about 6500K) and anything higher than that is entering the blue/purple part of the colour temp scale.

10,000K will be blue looking compared to OEM xenons and 8000K will have a blue tint to it. The further away from 6500K you go the less effective the lights will be as obviously you want to replicate daylight as much as possible, the same rule applies to lower K values (think sodium street lamp - think crap colour rendering)

Just did a quick google...

HID Conversion Kits Xenon 3000k 6000k 8000k 10000k

Obviously depends on the manufacture as not all of them would be set to a standard.

So it looks 6500 or 8000 is best way to go!

Personally I would go 6500K so the lights can actually be used properly at night :P

well thats mine, i guess they do have a bluey tinge to them. but they certainly dont put up blue light

Proper blue light will be anything over 10000K. Any higher and you start to add purple to the mix

I reckon your 8000's are like OEM's when they first ignite.

The colours do vary slightly amongst manufacturers depending on the contents of the capsule in the lamp.

I did a guide to changing the headlight bulbs on an Octy II (non-Xenon) which shows removal of the headlamp units - it might be a help....

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/technical-guides/new-octavia-headlight-bulb-change/69565/

Cheers buddy

Does anyone has a comments on this KIT?

Xenon HID Conversion Kit H1/H7/H4 Bi-Xenon/4.3K/6K/8K.. - eBay Lights Lighting Accessories, Car Tuning Styling, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 22-Sep-07 21:45:00 BST)

Or would you recommend get going for a more reputable supplier like Awesome? Assuming the Bosch kit would be pretty good?!!?

Quite frankly, most of what he is saying in that auction is rubbish.

Bosch do not Supply kits to any manufacturers, the headlamp manufacturers supply the headlamps complete and they aren't kits, they are normally Philips or Hella ballasts too.

At £89 they will almost certainly be cheap chinese fakes anyway, the ballasts in the picture look identical to the X5 kit I had on the Superb, I am suspicious that they caused the failure of my abs/esp system on my car due to the EMI.

Basically, avoid E-Bay at all costs for HID's. almost everything on there is fake, and anything that is suspiciously cheap will be crap and will cause you problems.

This guy - Philips HID,Philips Visionplus,Philips BlueVision,Philips DiamondVision, Philips Power2night and GE HID,GE Megalightplus, GE Euroblue sold by the industry experts is ex Philips, and will supply you with genuine Philips ballasts and re-based lamps with the correct focal length that wont damage your cars electical systems.

Sorry, that link will take you too his Halogen sales, if you follow the link on the homepage to the hid-online pages it has the kits.

At £89 they will almost certainly be cheap chinese fakes anyway, the ballasts in the picture look identical to the X5 kit I had on the Superb, I am suspicious that they caused the failure of my abs/esp system on my car due to the EMI.

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could you talk a bit more about the abs/esp failure you found using a cheap kit? i also had a similar issue with cheaper ballasts and the seller said i was putting them in wrong becasue he said theres no way they could interfere with the abs/esp systems. i now have better ballasts which do not mess with the esp system any more.

I have to agree. Treat the cheap kits like a dose of Syphilis and avoid at all costs.

When fitting something that runs at 25,000 volts I like a little quality built in thanks.

You also have high frequencies present in the control gear for the HID's and this can feed back through the 12volt supply and cause all sorts of problems. Good quality units will have decent filtering on them to eliminate this problem.

You also have high frequencies present in the control gear for the HID's and this can feed back through the 12volt supply and cause all sorts of problems. Good quality units will have decent filtering on them to eliminate this problem.

this is exactly what i thought. the guy i got mine off sent me some extra wires that were supposed to stop the feedback. in the end he sent me better ballasts. although mine werent cheap, 150 quid, i thought it was better than going sub 100 quid. got it all sorted in the end though.

This guy - Philips HID,Philips Visionplus,Philips BlueVision,Philips DiamondVision, Philips Power2night and GE HID,GE Megalightplus, GE Euroblue sold by the industry experts is ex Philips, and will supply you with genuine Philips ballasts and re-based lamps with the correct focal length that wont damage your cars electical systems.

Cheers mate Would have been a costly whim!

So have you bought anything from this guy before, or known anyone else who has? As the product looks good and very tempted!

Ok, I haven't bought from this guy personally as My Mondeo ST has Factory HID.

But, some of the guys on the ST forum have, and they are very happy with them.

The Mondeo seems particularly sensitive to the high frequencys and EMI etc that can feed back to the cars electrical system, and these kits cause no problem at all, he was even decent enough to send the site owner a selection of different lamps at different colour temperatures so he could test them and report back to the members.

I had so many problems with the cheap kits and even some supposedly 'high quality' kits (X5) on my Superb, lamps never lasted long etc.

It was only after I'd got rid of the car that I learned about the possible problems associated with 'cheap' HID kits, and the possible interference with the electrical systems, unfortunately I'd already spent thousands (literaly) replacing knackered electrical control units for the ABS/ESP etc etc.

I hope others can learn from my mistakes and not end up with bills like I had!