True Xenon headlights

1. sanchez89 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2007 Walsall Posts: 343 03 Black VTR

   #1 8th December 2008, 18:46

   This may be a silly question but i was wondering driving home, if say you took a car, BMW, Audi, Merc etc. with xenon headlights, removed there bulbs and put them in your own car (providing they fit) would you get the proper xenon effect?
   
   or would your wiring just set the front of your car alight.
   
   I no it would be a joke trying to find some that fit in a saxo but worth a thought.
   
   What people ideas?
2. Matt Established Member Joined: Sep 2008 Walsall Posts: 1748

   #2 8th December 2008, 18:47

   Tbh mate i have no idea. but WALSALL FTW!!
3. sanchez89 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2007 Walsall Posts: 343 03 Black VTR

   #3 8th December 2008, 18:55

   hahaaha oh god yeah. where bouts in walsall you from matey?
4. Matt Established Member Joined: Sep 2008 Walsall Posts: 1748

   #4 8th December 2008, 18:56

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by sanchez89 hahaaha oh god yeah. where bouts in walsall you from matey?

   Reedswood! U?
5. jonezy Established Member Joined: Jul 2007 Carnforth (lancaster) Posts: 1617 55 CTR premier '97 posi vts

   #5 8th December 2008, 19:02

   they dont fit, they would blow up anyway
6. sanchez89 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2007 Walsall Posts: 343 03 Black VTR

   #6 8th December 2008, 19:04

   im aldridge mate, near brownhills, walsall wood etc.
7. Matt Established Member Joined: Sep 2008 Walsall Posts: 1748

   #7 8th December 2008, 19:06

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by sanchez89 im aldridge mate, near brownhills, walsall wood etc.

   Tbh mate thats a few locations
8. sanchez89 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2007 Walsall Posts: 343 03 Black VTR

   #8 8th December 2008, 19:07

   yeah i said that just incase you didnt no where aldridge was ay it. most people have at least heard of the places around it. haha
9. Matt Established Member Joined: Sep 2008 Walsall Posts: 1748

   #9 8th December 2008, 19:11

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by sanchez89 yeah i said that just incase you didnt no where aldridge was ay it. most people have at least heard of the places around it. haha

   Lol i was gonna go to the Goodfellows garage earlier cus i broke my radiator bleed cap but i went to scrappy instead
10. kcsaxo Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jul 2006 West Yorkshire Posts: 3471 Saxo 1.1

    #10 8th December 2008, 19:13

    you could either get UBER expensive PIAA bulbs or get HID kits that are available on ebay.
11. sanchez89 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2007 Walsall Posts: 343 03 Black VTR

    #11 8th December 2008, 19:14

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by kcsaxo you could either get UBER expensive PIAA bulbs or get HID kits that are available on ebay.

    what the hell are PIAA bulbs mate?
12. sanchez89 Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2007 Walsall Posts: 343 03 Black VTR

    #12 8th December 2008, 19:15

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by LethalLurch Lol i was gonna go to the Goodfellows garage earlier cus i broke my radiator bleed cap but i went to scrappy instead

    how did you do that?
13. Matt Established Member Joined: Sep 2008 Walsall Posts: 1748

    #13 8th December 2008, 19:17

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by sanchez89 how did you do that?

    Was bleeding the system and i broke off
14. user_15989 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857

    #14 8th December 2008, 21:00

    The OEM Xenon bulbs fitted on other cars along with there ballast are very good quality and in so are very expensive. But yes there us no reason you could not take them out an fit them to another car. The wiring it self is very simple. The fittings however on Xenon bulbs are totally different to that of Halogen bulbs. There is no such thing as a OEM H4 Xenon bulb. It is illegal however to use on the road a bulb that is not approved for the headlight they are fitted to. It is worth noting much of the reason the lights look as they do in some BMWs, Audis, Mercs and so on is not so much to do with the bulb but rather the optics them self. For example no OEM bulb is actually blue even though people are often mistaken in to thinking they are. OEM bulbs are yellow and its actually the optics that refract the light and can give it a blue ish mist even though the light given off is actually a yellow ish white. This web site has a little but of information on retrofitting Xenon lights www.hid.moonfruit.com

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