My headlights suck! What can I do?

[Ed Kellock]

Yeah, buy a nice relayed wiring harness from Blau or Competition
Limited.  It may help in bright ness of stock lights.  Then you're
ready to put in higher wattage bulbs or go with Euros.  Either way
you'll need the harness.

I have 80/100's in my stock CGT lights with a harness from Competition
Limited.  It was a noticeable improvement when I did it, but pales in
comparison to the euros in my 200q.  I had to run the ground wires
from each light to the battery neg post finally to get a good ground
and quit melting bulb connectors.  It's a semi decent intermediate
step to euros.

You could also mount actual driving lights on the bumper.  Not real
elegant, but would be fairly quick and effective.

Ed


On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:56:37 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Farrugia
<jfarrugi at umich.edu> wrote:
> Tyson
> 
> let me suggest that the wiring from the power source and ground source to
> the lights might be to blame. from what i have seen on vw's, not that
> familiar with audi's yet to comment, the wiring connections and possibly
> the wire can come to have a higher resistance over time from corrosion or
> over heating of the wire/terminals.  here is a simple test, make yourself
> a set of test leads consisting of some two pair wire and a fuseable link or
> inline fuse and some of the appropriate terminals.  disconnect one of
> your headlights and patch it in with this set up at night and compare
> the output with the other one.  if its brighter you know you have a
> wiring/connection issue to resolve.  fairly cheap but labor intensive some
> times to fix right.
> 
> jonathan
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tyson Varosyan wrote:
> 
> > I got an 86 4kcsq with US headlights! These lights plain out SUCK! I have
> > been looking for euro H1/H4 lights for some time now on eBay but have not
> > been able to find them. Any other places I should look? Is there anything
> > that can be done to my stock lights to get them to actually brighten the
> > road in front of me? My aftermarket fog lights make more useful light output
> > than the stock headlights.
> >
> > And yes, I have already aligned them. Point them up and you don't see
> > anything as the beam doesn't go far. Point em down and you can see maybe 20
> > yards in front, beyond that, its and unknown void of space!
> >
> > Tyson Varosyan
> > Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC.
> > tyson at up-times.com
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> >
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