[s-cars] Re: HEADLIGHT UPGRADE

[Bob DG]

How 'bout OEM Xenons? Pricey, but the best option as I see it.






>From: CyberPoet <thecyberpoet at cyberpoet.net>
>To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: [s-cars] Re: HEADLIGHT UPGRADE
>Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:31:57 -0500
>
>Dan,
>
>    What you are missing is the temperature issue (above and beyond it
>drawing the same power). Any
>given filliment can be made to run brighter by improving it's burn
>characteristics. Up the temp of the burn
>on any specific type of bulb (by either increasing power or decreasing
>filiment width), generally up the light output,
>but simultaneously increase the heat that is radiated from the quartz
>surface of the bulb as infrared heat.
>Increasing the ambient bulb casement temperature leads to a
>higher-than-designed-for temperature in the headlight housing, which
>over time causes the plastic components to fail by either becoming
>fragile (heat range cycling) or melting (too high
>an absolute temp). Additionally, since the reflector material sits on a
>plasticized backing in your car, that plastic
>may well also give up it's surface cohesion, resulting in loss of
>reflective materials. Increasing the power to the
>bulb (using a higher-draw bulb) adds to all the previous problems by
>increasing the heat load on the supply wires and
>relays, which in worst-case scenarios can lead to fire (gee, imagine
>that next time you're driving through the country
>on a deserted road at night).
>
>Everyone here pretty much gave you the best advice on what to do with
>the stock headlight system -- replace it with
>the Euro lens or the Euro-spec headlight assemblies. The only
>additional suggestion they missed I will take straight out of my own
>rally experiences and add to their advice: add an additional set of
>externally mounted driving lights (such as Hella 550's mounted below
>the bumper line). Since these lights won't tie into the existing wiring
>harness, you can buy as powerful a set as you can stand (and afford --
>low cost Hella's can be had at $60 set for driving lights) -- and
>simply add more light by a factor of 100% or more rather than trying to
>upgrade your existing lights by a factor of 10% - 35%.
>
>Best Wishes,
>=-= Marc Glasgow
>
>Dan said:
>
>>I am considering just replacing my stock
>>bulbs with Xenon bulbs, which are available at
>>http://www.eurolights.com/.
>
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