[s-cars] Hid's half done sort of...report

[Lino M. Valadas]

Another happy camper here enjoying HID's.

I installed them over the Christmas holidays.  Truly plug and play.  It took
me about 15 minutes per side, including 5 minutes of waiting for the glue to
dry.  Fantastic deal.  Best upgrade for the buck.

Pictures available if anybody is interested.

Cheers

Lino
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Strangways" <Strangconst at rogers.com>
To: "bill mahoney" <airbil at gmail.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Hid's half done sort of...report


> correct.
>
> Enjoy them new brights
>
> I am
>
> Mark S (recovering)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "bill mahoney" <airbil at gmail.com>
> To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:34 PM
> Subject: [s-cars] Hid's half done sort of...report
>
>
> 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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