Right, now I've managed to get a HID kit that works properly, the time has come to get this Kit on and looking, ultimately sweet. I just bought a kit off Ebay (bi-xenon) and opted for the 8000k badboys. Have previously fit one as I mention earlier, but the bulbs didn't work and although advertised as bi-xenon, the dipped beam was just a regular bulb, and the Full Beam was HID. When purchasing one of these kits, check what the H4 bulb looks like as if there are 2 bulbs per unit, avoid. Simply one bulb, and thats the one you want, High and low from one bulb. I can recommend these ones though.
Right, first thing is first:
1. Examine the contents, don't assume it's as easy as that.. this shit took me a good 2 hours to do properly.
2. Remove your current bulbs from the headlight. This means unplugging the cable going into the back of the current bulb. After removing the cable, take off the black rubber surrounds.
Loosen the screw you can see to remove the spring which keeps the bulb in place and take out the bulb:
Put new HID bulb into the headlight and re-affix with the spring. On my kit, this took me 35 mins to do the passenger side one. The drivers side was fine -went in straight away, but this one took aaaages to re-clip back into place.
When I fit this kit, because of the size of the rear of these bulbs, I couldn't manage to put the black rubber surround back on.
Next, is to secure the ballasts in place.
This took the longest time of all. Trying to find a good place that wasn't moving, didnt get hot or didn't vibrate in a crammed engine bay with nothing to secure anything... at all, was a nightmare. Below are where i found decent spots to put them. both with a few holes in the car body i was able to utilise:
And here. With both of these places, I managed to secure them with thick bolt and because they (kinda) hanging, they wont knock against the body of the car at all. The cables for the ballast tucked nicely between the radiator and the slam panel to the headlight bay:
Once this hurdle was over with, next is to bring in the cables. It's pretty simple stuff this, just refer to the instructions if you have to. Connect everything up. Just feed cables through (i used underneath the air filter pipe inside the top of the slam panel:
Connect the relay harness up to the battery. It also connects to the HID kit, but the battery is like:
Tidy all cables so none are loose near working parts as follows:
Cut finger cutting cable tie...
Cross your fingers and try the lights:
Yeah Boiiiiii!
Driving is SERIOUSLY improved in the dark with this kit. Visibility is awesome, and I know the 8000k are meant to be too blue (and they kinda do look it from the pics) but when they have charged up after few initial seconds, the look white when looking head on. Very, very white. In car, looks a little more blue, but you kinda cant ddecide whether its a pure white or bluey, its that hard to tell. Get one. Now.
Any questions, drop me a pm.
Right, first thing is first:
1. Examine the contents, don't assume it's as easy as that.. this shit took me a good 2 hours to do properly.
2. Remove your current bulbs from the headlight. This means unplugging the cable going into the back of the current bulb. After removing the cable, take off the black rubber surrounds.
Loosen the screw you can see to remove the spring which keeps the bulb in place and take out the bulb:
Put new HID bulb into the headlight and re-affix with the spring. On my kit, this took me 35 mins to do the passenger side one. The drivers side was fine -went in straight away, but this one took aaaages to re-clip back into place.
When I fit this kit, because of the size of the rear of these bulbs, I couldn't manage to put the black rubber surround back on.
Next, is to secure the ballasts in place.
This took the longest time of all. Trying to find a good place that wasn't moving, didnt get hot or didn't vibrate in a crammed engine bay with nothing to secure anything... at all, was a nightmare. Below are where i found decent spots to put them. both with a few holes in the car body i was able to utilise:
And here. With both of these places, I managed to secure them with thick bolt and because they (kinda) hanging, they wont knock against the body of the car at all. The cables for the ballast tucked nicely between the radiator and the slam panel to the headlight bay:
Once this hurdle was over with, next is to bring in the cables. It's pretty simple stuff this, just refer to the instructions if you have to. Connect everything up. Just feed cables through (i used underneath the air filter pipe inside the top of the slam panel:
Connect the relay harness up to the battery. It also connects to the HID kit, but the battery is like:
Tidy all cables so none are loose near working parts as follows:
Cut finger cutting cable tie...
Cross your fingers and try the lights:
Yeah Boiiiiii!
Driving is SERIOUSLY improved in the dark with this kit. Visibility is awesome, and I know the 8000k are meant to be too blue (and they kinda do look it from the pics) but when they have charged up after few initial seconds, the look white when looking head on. Very, very white. In car, looks a little more blue, but you kinda cant ddecide whether its a pure white or bluey, its that hard to tell. Get one. Now.
Any questions, drop me a pm.
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