Headlights: H4? H4/H1? H4/H3? 4-bulb? 2-bulb? ...

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

You certainly have asked the right questions.

You are talking about remodeling your whole system.  Not an easy or
inexpensive task.   You are doing the right thing to collect more
information about what choices are available, what each choice will cost,
and then let some time go by for the natural integrative processes to take
place, as they do when you give them a chance. Find some photos of what
other list members  have done. They have them on their web sites.I could
send you some attachment jpg's if you want.

One of your many active options is to contact Daniel Stern, by email and/or
phone.  He is the owner of the web site you mentioned, and he lives in
Texas. He gave me his cell phone number after I emailed some questions to
him. I exchanged at least 4 emails with him and two phone calls before I
finalized my order (87 kcstq).  I studied the options for about a year
before getting to a decision point.  It finally soaked in, and I saw what I
wanted and what I was willing to spend. Youn will probably do the
integrating thing a lot faster.

I ended up pulling off the original grill and headlights, including all
mounts, and substituting the grill and mounts from a quad-light system that
was used in 1985 on they 6type 44. Then I fitted those mounts with
rectangular E-code H1  and H4 lamps, Cibie I believe. I replaced the stock
connectors with E-code units, and relayed each lamp according to the
sugested schematics at the Stern web site.  Cost about $500, with me doing
the work.

Incredible result.

Doyt
Ohio   USA


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At 02:50 PM 1/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm getting lots of mixed messages from the archives: For my 1990 Audi
>200 10vAvant US spec, I see that Bosch/Hella makes a H4/H3 headlamp
>kit, Cibie makes a H4/H1 kit (for sale in the US?  Where?), I can get
>H4 high beams, H4 low beams, H1 this and that, 4-light systems,
>2-light systems...  It's time to have headlights that don't suck, so
>I'm willing to spend what's necessary for rural driving.  What do I
>want?
>
>Some posts have sent me to
>http://lighting.mbz.org/products/products.html - if I buy from there,
>what parts do I need?  If I buy from elsewhere, ditto.
>
>Thanks very much for any light you can shed on this :)
>
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