[s-cars] Keeping DRLs with a McCullough HID kit via the fogs? Is it possible?

[Dave Forgie]

Igor: Thanks for your (and Mark's and Fred's) response.  You're right we  
don't agree on either headlights or taillights (I hate the loss of light with  
Euro look-red/blink orange corners and, as you might remember, I   
converted both rear fog lights to run two filament bulbs in 1999).  

I do agree that OEM HIDs are the best but they are WAY too $$$.  Sean
 D. in our Vancouver club imported a set from Germany. They look good
 but a replacement bulb/ballast is about US$500 each. In constrast,  
several of our club members have done an LLTek or McCullough HID  
conversion (with Euro headlight lenses) and they work about the same as
 OEM for way less money.

The third option that I am looking at is Audi TT HID projectors.  One our
 auxillary club members (in Edmonton) has developed a mounting plate to  
convert OEM DOT headlights to Audi TT HID projectors.  From what I have
 been told and seen (via jpg photos only) they work fine.  I have ordered  
a set of plates and might go that way (then I need to score some used TT projectors from a wrecker).

Dave F.  

Igor Kessel wrote:

Dave,
while I have nothing to contribute to the DRL retrofit question (I am in  
the opposite camp and have disabled mine as soon as I acquired my car) I  
would strongly recommend going the kosher OEM HID projector route rather  
than doing the 9006 to D2S base hack "grafting" praying that the HID hot  
spot would miraculously end up in the precise focal point of where the  
9006 filament used to sit. Failing that you will get a horrible beam  
dispersion worse than the OEM Halogen that you started with. They will  
still look cool in blue but the colour is probably not what you're  
after. Let alone the lack of the Fresnel lens in the OEM Halogen  
projector and the lack of the proper European 15º rise to the passenger  
side (the so-called European Asymmetrical Beam).

I am yet to be shown an aftermarket HID kit that would even remotely  
impress me after having driven w/two sets of OEM HID projectors for a  
couple of years now.

--  
Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros
both w/proper European HIDs


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