new head lights

yea that right i got confuse lol which dont take much. Yea dip are the normall use and main beam is when u want 2 blind every1 lol when i put main beam on the 2 outer 1's go dimer then the normal dip is that right cause i thought they should go brighter and i have check all the wires and they all seem ok no bad conection that i cant find i have been thinking about re doing the lights wires from the switch and see if that helps out

Gareth
 
You have got adjustment of the beams by means of the 2 screws around the headlamp bowls. Take the grille off and it's fairly obvious
 
Just for reference really but I have made my installation of switched dip inners more permanent by using a foglamp relay kit from Ring. This has separate fuses and I've wired them to a pull switch on the dash next to and matching the rear window and electric fan ones. The kit was cheaper than buying the components separately and all the leads are all ready made up nice and neat.
I suppose they really work like additional driving lamps though dipped. They put a bit more light on the road but I only did it because I think it looks nice!
I've also put LED bulbs in the side lights and tail lights as they are actually a fair bit brighter than standard with no extra current draw. Plus these ones don't 'blow'. They look fine when behind the lenses.

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This replaced crappy boot light - Like having a mini sun in the boot. The warm white leds are a really good replacement for filament bulbs. I never really liked the blue light of the first ones that came out.
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OOhhh! They're cool! I'd refrained from the LED route cos the only ones I'd seen previously only had a flat rear facing array. so wouldn't shine into the reflector. Those address that and should indeed look good.

Chris
 
Tantus pedis - thanks for those interesting listings. I've been considering LEDs for rears and sides too. A bit unsure about the rears though, as I like the way originals work once they're cleaned and polished inside and out. Did you buy the red ones in the listing? Do you have pics you could post?

Bought two side light bulbs like yours just then - Norway has positioning lights as mandatory 24/7 and if these are brighter than the original bulbs I can probably use the P setting legally and have less battery drain on my short hops...
 
I bought the red ones - I have bought white ones before albeit the flat array type and they looked washed out. They reccommend you buy the red bulbs even when using red lenses.
I may brave the snow later and take some pictures but to honest they don't look any different to the filament bulbs. You can just about make out the 3 points of light but it's quite hard to see. I compared the two types fitted in the car. The filament lamps have a single point of light. I can see no difference in the reflected light. I haven't looked at the brake lights as I can't reach and have no willing assistant but brake light lights up the garden wall at least as brightly as the old lamps - possibly brighter.

The biggest differnce is with the front side lights. They are whiter and probably twice as bright with a more uniform brightness across the lens (what a geek I'm turning into). Light is a little brighter on the lens tip/point too. Only one minor thing is that leds are more sensitive to crapped up bulb holders. Maybe as they draw less current it finds it harder to cross the resistance of any rust / muck - I don't know. One of my side lights was well rusted but a bit of a scrape with a screwdriver cleaned it suffciently.
Not a major problem but just the first thing to check if they don't work. I don't think the fronts / boot lamp are polarity sensitive either which helps.
 
The colour is slightly warmer than shown and I had to mess about with the brightness to reduce the glare - only a mobile phone camera.
The 3rd pic shows brightness compared to 4 x dipped headlamps.
 

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I believe that the reason they recommend that you buy red LED bulbs for red lens lamps is because white light is made up of all the colours of the spectrum, the red lens then filters out all the other colours bar the red light (remember the Richard Of York Gained Battle In Vain at school for Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet?? or something like that), so filtering out the other colours but the red will reduce the intensity. If you have the same original level of intensity in just red light, then the red lens isn't going to filter out any light, it'll let it all through. Hence they're loads brighter.

OK so I listened in Science at School, I'm an nerd! :wink:

Bri.
 
I don't quite accept the claims to nerdiness, partly as I'd fit the category myself now and then 8) . I'm just grateful that I now have a car that I can mollycoddle instead of nursing an enduring low-level anxiety over how rusty it is, what needs doing and how much reading and kit investing I'd have to do in order to get at it.

Not to hijack Gareth's thread at all. Intrigued by xenon kits and other worthwhile mods. Thanks Tantus Pedis for the pics, I think those LEDs will be just what I want and if I can get brighter and right-looking Stops too that's just lovely...
 
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