[s-cars] Hid's half done sort of...report
bill mahoney
airbil at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 21:33:19 EST 2006
Another year and still more projects.
Since my little holiday A8 oil cooler leak repair project never got
off the ground due to a parts order malfunction, I went down to my
"Rosatto box/es" looking for another project and pulled out the very
recently acquired el cheapo HK HID's and the ecode lenses acquired
from ECS some time ago to actually perform the urS6 illumination
upgrade. I had been running HIR's which will continue in the high
beam possition.
I pulled information on this procedure from here and there (because of
all Audi models, the urS's seem to have information all over the web
... in addition to JaMu's file cabinet.)
Anyhoo thanks to all the various contributors that have made
disassembly a piece of cake, which I think the HK HID's installed by
themselves would surely be, except I wanted to provide the housings
with their once a decade cleaning and install the ecode euro lenses.
Special thanks to whoever it was who discovered that the whole inner
reflector assembly comes apart by simply releasing just two tabs
(preferably without breaking them.) Wow, I wonder how many
minutes/hours it took to figure that out but I surely would have just
have broken them off without this information.
Through some miracle of serendipitocity, I was able to make the 15o
dremel cut in the low beam cut off shutter. This is a miracle because
it requires a leap of faith considering that it is counter intuitive
and a seemingly upside down and backwards cut of the metal
shutter/shade. Upon performing the uber flashlight test, I will now
have a wee bit of extra light thrown up and to the right of the road.
Cool!
Mission tomorrow is to put it all back together and see how they shine.
I will say after cleaning it all up, it was rather clouded but now
it's rainman very sparklee with new unpitted glass.
ps to those who have done this install, is it correct that white wire
goes to oem yellow and black goes to oem brown?
TIA and Happy New Year men!
Bill m
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