[s-cars] TT HID retrofit into URS

[Robert Rossato]

Oh, I also meant to include this website that I found useful when I was
researching this 3 years ago.  Unfortunately, it is no longer an active
page, so this is a link through the Wayback Machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/20041118054603/faq.auto.light.tripod.com/car-
oem-hid.htm

Don't know if the information has been moved to another host, or it is
just gone.  There was a lot of other useful information on the various
pages of this site.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Rossato [mailto:bob.rossato_af at cox.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:46 PM
> To: 'WeSki at icubed.com'; 's-car-list at audifans.com'
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] TT HID retrofit into URS
> 
> 
> I would imagine just about any year TT ought to do, as I 
> don't think they changed much on those up to this point.  
> Don't think the 2nd gen TT is here yet.
> 
> As for me, I went with Euro A6 HIDs from a 2000 & 2001.  
> Happened to be one from each.  Only difference was in styling 
> of decorative reflector around the projector lens, which gets 
> tossed anyway.  Got them from somebody in Belgium selling on 
> German Ebay.  Paid a total of $300 including shipping.  
> 
> The Euro A6 HID projectors have a better light output than 
> the US versions, but they are a tight fit (had to do some 
> slight modifying).  The light output is phenomenal, however, 
> and it was well worth it.  I haven't seen any that are 
> brighter or have a wider coverage.  They're better than S8, 
> TT, or A4.  You may want to check out the US A6 HID 
> projectors as A) they'd be more readily available than the 
> Euro A6 or TT units, and 2) I believe they're easier fit than 
> the Euro A6 projectors.  I believe Paul K, Tom Mullane, and 
> good ole Uncle Bob Pastore have all used the US A6 versions, 
> so any of them can give you info on hard/easy it might have 
> been to install.
> 
> You'll have to make some brackets to adapt the different 
> mounting pattern of the donor projectors.  Don't know how the 
> TT ones are, but the A6 ones are definitely a different 
> pattern.  Then you'll have to figure out how you want to feed 
> the high tension wire through the housing.  Most folks have 
> it come out the back cover.  I went out the side so that the 
> back cover is free to be removed independently.  As for 
> power, I brought the two wires going to the ballast into the 
> housing through a small whole and connected them directly to 
> the wires that power the stock low beam projector.  
> Eventually I want to graft in the fog light connector that is 
> used on the S4 headlights (S6 headlights delete this and have 
> fog light circuit go through the main harness connector to 
> the lights), and use this as the pass through for powering 
> the ballasts.
> 
> I can also send you a little slide show of what I did to get 
> mine to fit.  It's not a complete how to, just highlights 
> some of the fit issues.  Also have a file that shows what the 
> light output is like compared to stock.  I've had mine for 3 
> years now and I could never go back to regular halogen 
> lighting again.  The big, big plus is in the rain.
> 
> BR
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> > [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of P. Dooley
> > Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:27 PM
> > To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> > Subject: [s-cars] TT HID retrofit into URS
> > 
> > 
> > As the end of the year comes, I find myself rereading old 
> s-car email 
> > and figuring out if there will ever be any grip on the 
> > slippery slope or 
> > not (I think not).  I'm intrigued by the idea of retrofitting 
> > some Audi 
> > TT HID low beam projectors into my Euro S6 headlights, but I 
> > can't find 
> > any reference to the exact year/part numbers of TT headlights I'm 
> > looking for.  So, to those that have already done so, do 
> you have any 
> > part numbers?  I believe Fred Munro has done this as well as Mark 
> > Strangeways and I think Dave Forgie while Igor Kessel use 
> > some Euro 740i 
> > lights.
> > 
> > Some how about some part numbers, years of potential donor 
> > cars, and any 
> > other advice you can throw out at us.
> > 
> > TIA<
> > 
> > Paul Dooley
> > 95 S6