[s-cars] HID lights group buy - $185/set delivered

[Lee Levitt]

Bruce,

Nothing like a little empirical testing, right?

:)

I defer to your experience on this. I never bothered to do the A/B
comparison when I upgraded my S6 to ecode, then HID lamps, or my C5 A6 to
ecode HIDs. And I loved the extra lighting too!

BTW, guess what...Mercedes US DOT lamps were worse than Audi lamps. My '93
W124 has *AWFUL* headlamps. *And* they're ugly. I've got a set of ecodes
waiting to go in...

Lee 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Mendel [mailto:brucem105 at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:07 PM
> To: lee at wheelman.com; 'RM'; s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] HID lights group buy - $185/set delivered
> 
> Yeah, he's the master of lighting, and I buy tons of things 
> from him. He's a great guy, a real lighting zealot. But 
> sometimes zealots are blind (no pun
> intended) to reality, and rely too much on theory.
> 
> Scientifically, he's correct. But I've done a ton of  A/B 
> comparisons with one HID installed, and one halogen, and I am 
> on a dark road at a stop.
> Second car is there to drive towards my car looking for glare.
> 
> Towel over one light, then the other. Drive short distance 
> with one light connected, then the other. Walk 100 yards from 
> the car and look back at driver's height for glare. Have 
> other car come towards my car looking for glare. Etc. etc.
> 
> The HID's are so clearly superior in amount of light, with 
> all else like dispersion, glare, and beam pattern being 
> essentially the same that I throw science out the window and 
> go with more usable light on the road.
> 
> B
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com>
> To: "'Bruce M.'" <brucem105 at Comcast.net>; "'RM'" 
> <waves at epix.net>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:54 PM
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] HID lights group buy - $185/set delivered
> 
> 
> > Bruce writes:
> >
> > >
> > > With these super cheap HID's, they do in fact stay very close
> > > to OEM beam pattern. They also throw about a million more
> > > times light on the road (by my scientific calculations).
> >
> > Read Stern's treatise against HID fog lamps. Then you'll 
> know why more
> light
> > isn't necessarily better.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >
> 
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