[s-cars] Interesting read on HID conversions

[Igor Kessel]

Taka Mizutani wrote:
> The sale of these kits is kind of like how there are tons of "offroad" 
> X- and H-pipes sold
> for American muscle cars- catless and totally in violation of EPA regs.
> 
> They're even advertised when these people sell the cars- they will state 
> that the car has
> an "offroad" X-pipe. What good is that going to do if you have an 
> emissions test to pass?
> 
> HID is no good when the light isn't in the right place- heck, I have 
> bixenons in the Volvo which
> are set from the factory to be criminally low- I can overdrive the low 
> beams at 35mph! You can't
> just adjust them up, because the stupid autolevelers in the system will 
> adjust them down through
> the diagnostic computer if you take the car in for service. This is 
> ****ing stupid.

Taka,
I am surprised that you're having trouble rising the beam a bit.When I 
installed the HID projectors off a wrecked European A6 in place of the 
OEM Halogen projectors in my wife's Allroad I had no trouble 
establishing the baseline and the centre points on a lined piece of 
cardboard. After that I ran the diagnostic routine via the HEX-COM and 
the lights self-adjusted within the range.

-- 
Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros