Plug & Play HID's

[GainfulShrimp]

do your LED lights throw up any errors?

No errors at all, although they took a bit of fiddling to get working right, as I explained in the thread about them, here. I personally used trial and error and didn't have to resort to adding any solder to them.

 

[jj06]

so the H.I.D kits of ebay work fine and throw no warning lights up as other kits ive seen have been abit to pricey for me

 

[GainfulShrimp]

so the H.I.D kits of ebay work fine and throw no warning lights up as other kits ive seen have been abit to pricey for me

Can't vouch for the eBay kits as I bought mine from HIDS4U. They're pricey but not quite as eye-watering as the full price if you use a coupon code (search is your friend).

 

[Ingy84]

Hi People

Just fitted 6000k H7 HID kit from ebay (jamperformance was seller i think) to my Altea TFSI FR
Cost 60 quid including delivery, excellent qaulity, Took around an hour to fit.

It is really simple, only prob was 25mm hole in cover as stated in instructions wasnt big enough

Brilliant white light make's standard bulbs look orange
My Dad has a 407 coupe with standard Xenons n they dont look any different to them
No ecu errors either

Also got canbus compatible LED sidelights, the ones that look like a circuit board for a 10er off another seller

Delighted

Cheers
Ingy

 

[on_the_verge]

Looks like the HIDS and LED's will be on my birthday list - with all the miles I do I will be able to "cough" justify them........

 

[james.milroy]

every kit requires drilling on the light covers unfortunately - it is a piece of piss though.


i'd personally go for 4300 or 5000... no matter what anyone says, 6000 looks pretty blue and its one of those ones where u see the car coming toward you and u know its a set of aftermarkets fitted. if that makes sense...


i've got 5000k hid4u kit with the normal H7 bulbs (do not get the anti glare or H7R bulbs).

i'll try take some snaps tonight

Why not the H7R bulbs? I would have thought that they would help with glare. In saying that, Gainfulshrimp's post with pics looks like the bottom portion of the reflector is dark (he has H7R's) Still, the design of the reflector itself is supposed to modify the beam as to not dazzle oncoming traffic (as long as the headlamp is correctly set). Any feedback on this...

 

[GainfulShrimp]

The H7Rs have some sort of coating on the lower bit of the bulb, to minimise the light onto the bottom half of the reflector. Seems to cut out glare almost completely. You'll probably find you have the adjust the lights afterwards but it's easy and the instructions in the kit are clear on how to do it.

The resulting beam/pattern is quite crisp but doesn't have much of the "diagonal/up to the left" light which you get with normal bulbs - it's much more focused onto the road and straight ahead. That said, you won't have any problems with road signs etc.

There is a small gallery on the hids4u site where you can see other examples of the H7R bulbs in situ.

Where I agree with S2TTB's comments is re: the colour temp. I think next time I'd choose the 5kK kit as 6kK is just a smidgen too blue for my tastes (not blue blue, just more blue than OEM).

 

[leon_lib]

if you fit hids can you still level the lights?

 

[LeonFR07DSG]

if you fit hids can you still level the lights?

sure can

 

[Taipan]

When it comes to the time are they ok for an MOT without self levelling and washers?

 

[leon_lib]

I no a car can fail for lights not being level but I am not sure about the washers!

So which hid kit would you go for? eBay or hids4u?

 

[Mr.Leon]

Some people tell me about an issue with Golf Mk5 , Audi A3 and Leon 1P . With these cars is possible that rear washing motor unit will break using standard xenon conversion kit (ballast + bulbs).

Other people have told me that this issue is only about Audi A3.

I like xenon conversion very much but I'm in trouble because I'm afraid to break the washer unit.

Did anyone know who is telling the truth ?

Thanks very much.

 

[leon_lib]

Some people tell me about an issue with Golf Mk5 , Audi A3 and Leon 1P . With these cars is possible that rear washing motor unit will break using standard xenon conversion kit (ballast + bulbs).

Other people have told me that this issue is only about Audi A3.

I like xenon conversion very much but I'm in trouble because I'm afraid to break the washer unit.

Did anyone know who is telling the truth ?

Thanks very much.

how would you break the rear washing unit if your playing with the headlights?

 

[S2TTB]

Why not the H7R bulbs? I would have thought that they would help with glare. In saying that, Gainfulshrimp's post with pics looks like the bottom portion of the reflector is dark (he has H7R's) Still, the design of the reflector itself is supposed to modify the beam as to not dazzle oncoming traffic (as long as the headlamp is correctly set). Any feedback on this...

i got H7R to start with... and to be honest, they were brighter than standard but there was reduction in the distance the light beam travelled... if you put ur adjuster upto "0" the now and you will see that ur light beam is pretty high and u get a good distance.

Well with the h7r, the bottom half of the bulb in reality doesnt provide any light as it is covered. so if u can imagine your headlight being a full circle, only the top half of it is emitting the light and therefor pointing it down.

i went and changed mine for normal H7 whhere the full "circle " of the headlamp reflector is emitting the light and the difference is litterally night and day. One thing i would say is that i now drive with the adjuster one click down to "1" or sometimes even "2" if i'm driving about well lit city centres . If you leave it at the "0" you will notice lighting up the sides of houses etc

Trust me, 5000k and normal H7's. fire them in and knock ur adjuster down one hit if you get anyone flashing. the reason for them flashing isnt a "glare" as such... its the fact the settings are that high standard, that when u put in your brighter bulbs it becomes more noticeable. dunno if that makes any sense

 

[LeonFR07DSG]

i got H7R to start with... and to be honest, they were brighter than standard but there was reduction in the distance the light beam travelled... if you put ur adjuster upto "0" the now and you will see that ur light beam is pretty high and u get a good distance.

Well with the h7r, the bottom half of the bulb in reality doesnt provide any light as it is covered. so if u can imagine your headlight being a full circle, only the top half of it is emitting the light and therefor pointing it down.

i went and changed mine for normal H7 whhere the full "circle " of the headlamp reflector is emitting the light and the difference is litterally night and day. One thing i would say is that i now drive with the adjuster one click down to "1" or sometimes even "2" if i'm driving about well lit city centres . If you leave it at the "0" you will notice lighting up the sides of houses etc

Trust me, 5000k and normal H7's. fire them in and knock ur adjuster down one hit if you get anyone flashing. the reason for them flashing isnt a "glare" as such... its the fact the settings are that high standard, that when u put in your brighter bulbs it becomes more noticeable. dunno if that makes any sense

i dont think that 5k would be bright enough to be honest... i also had to adjust my headlights higher not with the adjuster in car but the other one under the bonnet...

 

[Mr.Leon]

how would you break the rear washing unit if your playing with the headlights?

If you never hear something like this I'm very happy.

On Audi A3 often happen that will broke the washing unit (motor) with low quality KIT HIDS conversion because of something like "current return at high voltage" in the electric loom.

I will be very happy if you never know it with LEON MK2

thanks

 

[S2TTB]

i dont think that 5k would be bright enough to be honest... i also had to adjust my headlights higher not with the adjuster in car but the other one under the bonnet...

Lower the number the brighter the light output is actually.......


so 5000k is brighter than 6......

 

[GainfulShrimp]

Yes, the colour temperature isn't the same thing as brightness. The higher the number, the bluer the light. Essentially, anything under 4,000K is yellowish or orangey. 5,000K is pure white. 6,000 is white with some blue. Anything higher than 6,000K is very blue or even purple and light output decreases with higher colour temps.

 

[leon_lib]

I'm dead interested in HIDs after sing all the pics can everyone who has them post up the info of there's kits:

bought from-
price-
kelvin-

be a massive help thanks lib?

 

[GainfulShrimp]

I bought from hids4u although for their Ultimate kit they now sell a silver coloured ballast (starter and ballast in the same housing) which looks suspiciously similar/identical to the eBay ones. Whether there's any difference I can't say as I've never seen an eBay kit up close.

Cost was roughly £160 from memory, after I applied a coupon code I found online.

Colour temp of my kit is 6,000K but I'd probably go for 5,000K next time. OEM xenon generally use 4,300K bulbs but the projector headlights give that blueish "HID effect". It's a personal taste thing but I think 5,000K look very similar to OEM and output the most light. If you want that slightly blueish light with a reflector headlight then 6,000K is the way to go.

Hope that helps!