Audi lighting

[Larry C Leung]

FWIW, my 200's DOT lights are still clear, with a good set of reflectors.
 I did the 9007 conversion, and, although these aren't great lights (and
certainly don't compare to my GTi's round H4, H1 Euro's) for suburban
driving around here (suburban NYC) they are more than adequate, and
throughly outperform the lights on my parents Gen 1 Sable, and their Gen
1 Legacy. They seem to perform more than adequately enough to make my way
down the Palisades Parkway (hilly, curvy, and unlit, through a State
Forest), though they don't really cut it at full speed on backcountry
roads without the center lines. The point on this is, I think many a type
44 T's lights are just in really bad shape, and the optical design,
though marginal, isn't quite as bad as most seem to make them out to be.
Would I prefer Euros, you bet! But at least around here, their advantages
aren't going to be of much help for me. 

LL - NY

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:20:43 -0400 lee at wheelman.com (Lee M. Levitt)
writes:
>BenediktRochow at oaktech.com wrote:
>
>> >Many European cars have only the H4 low/high beam, e.g.
>> >typ44 100, for Audi content. Based on that, can I consider that 
>setup
>> >enough? (If it's good enough for Audi, ...)
>>
>
>With regard to that last statement, I guess you've never driven a 200T 
>or
>200Q with stock DOT lamps at night. Those lights are godawful, no 
>better
>than a couple of candles ducttaped to the bumper. Can you say 
>criminal
>negligence?
>
>Lee
>'95.5 S6 avant (with Euro lamps)
>'96 A6 quattro avant (soon to get Euro lamps)
>