[Biturbos4] S4 Headlights

[Steve Munk]

Joel, thanks for the info. I found the photos very helpful too. I was  
looking at my headlight the other day when I had it out wondering what  
I'd do to reseal the ballast if I replaced it with a different one.  
Your plexiglas idea looks like a winner.

I swapped in an old stock bulb my buddy had lying around for now. My  
bulb looked fogged in the center and was definitely bad. Though the  
light output of the swapped in bulb is a bit different color from the  
other headlight at least I can take my time researching my upgrade  
options without driving around in a "one-eye".

Any tips on a good place to get a set of e-code lenses?

Has anyone tried the 55W LLTek e-codes with the LED daytime running  
lights? They look really cool. I emailed them about it over a week ago  
but no response.
Steve
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Steve Munk                           http://people.arsc.edu/~munk/S4
HPC Systems Analyst                  '01 Audi S4 biturbo, silver 6-speed
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center  '01 Audi A6 2.7T, gold 6-speed
University of Alaska Fairbanks       mailto:stevemunk71 at gmail.com


On Feb 23, 2010, at 6:18 PM2/23/10, Joel Liggins wrote:
> From my experience, a bulb going pink, combined with the age of your  
> bulbs,
> means the bulb is dying.  One of mine started going into the pink  
> stage
> years ago.  I replaced the bulb and it was fine.
>
> Since then, I've gone to Ecodes and absolutely love them.  I also  
> upgraded
> my ballasts and bulbs to the 55W kit from DDM Tuning.  I went with  
> their
> smallest digital ballast, and I was actually able to install it in  
> the stock
> location in the headlight with just some Lexan and JB weld and some  
> screws.
> Had a buddy do the electrical wiring, and I'm going to link the  
> pictures
> from Photobucket so you can check out my 2nd rate work.  :P
>
> http://s192.photobucket.com/albums/z299/quickaudi/HID/
>
> As for price, the whole kit plus the extra wiring to hook it up to a  
> D2S
> bulb was under $100 shipped.  You should be able to find stock bulbs  
> on Ebay
> for around $60.  Unless you're going directly to the stealership, I  
> have no
> clue where your $300 cost came from.