[s-cars] Lighting poll - McCulloch HIDs vs HIR bulbs

[Lee Levitt]

Phillips based kits can be had for $400 or so:

http://www.xenondepot.com/product.php?product_id=1

I don't have any experience with either this seller or the Gen 4 Phillips
ballast...

But I *am* thinking about upgrading the lighting on my wife's '96 A6. It's
got euro lamps now, but the lighting is poor as compared to the xenons on my
'99. And I was pleased overall with the performance of the McCullough
lighting in my '95.5 S6 avant with the euro lamps...

Of course, with my 16YO son on the hunt for his own Audi, I may be looking
at doing two sets of upgrades...fortunately I already have a set of C4 euro
lamps Rossatoed in the basement.

Lee
'99 A6 quattro avant
'96 A6 quattro avant

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Eric Rechlin
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 8:02 AM
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Lighting poll - McCulloch HIDs vs HIR bulbs
> 
> Dave Forgie wrote:
> > Sean D. may disagree but I think, for the money, the 
> McCullough HIDs 
> > with the Euro lenses are VERY close to the factory HID set up, at 
> > least to my eyes.
> 
> I have some experience here so I will comment.
> 
> A few years ago I installed a genuine Philips HID 4300K kit 
> in the low beams and HIR 9011 bulbs in the high beams of an 
> S6 (not my own) with otherwise stock DOT headlights.  The 
> grand total was close to $600 at the time, if I remember correctly.
>