Where do the city lights go anyway?

[Dave Conner]

 I hadn't thought about them being on together.  The City Lights are 5 w
bulbs and really don't shine on the road or anything... they just give off
a glow like a parking light.  

The H4/H3 w/ city light, as on the 5k turbo cars, do not have a regular
parking light.  The city light >is< the parking light.  I think the
white/clear reflectors on the side are only reflectors, unlike the DOT
lights which have a bulb stuffed in there.   I never checked to see if the
city light stays on with the regular low beams.  

The H4 lights on the 5k non-turbo cars have parking light bulbs in the
orange side pieces as on the DOT lights, plus the city lights inside the
main reflector.  These are the ones I wired to both come on together.  I
didn't have any instructions telling me to do it this way.  

In my humble opinion ... There's no comparison between the H4 and the H4/H3
euros.  The H4/H3 are >great<, but the H4 only are not exceptional.    
In fact, re: the lights on the non-turbo cars I don't think there's much
improvement with the H4 vs the DOT.  There is a sharper cutoff, but I don't
think the difference is worth the cost and effort of the swap.  My
experience is based on the used H4's I installed in my 87 5ks, and in
comparison with the H4/H3 in my 200q.  So it's possible my installation
isn't up to spec.

Dave C.

At 04:15 PM 2/26/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>At 03:41 PM 2/26/01 , you wrote:
>>Tony,
>>I wired them in with the parking lights.
>>Dave C.
>
>Thanks, David.  They don't cause a problem when the low beams come on then?
>
>Regards,
>
>Tony
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