[s-cars] Can Allroad headlight components fit UrS4 housings?

[Lee Levitt]

Chris,

Don't take the allroad headlamps apart...for your purposes they're 
identical to a 2001 and earlier headlamp, but are much more 
valuable on the open market due to their slightly more powerful 
high beam and different esthetics (gray rather than silver 
innards). Sell them on ebay and buy a set of A6 lamps (pre 2002).

With regard to fitting...um, maybe. My mechanic had a lot of fun 
fitting a pair of TT projectors into my C4 A6 ecode lamps. Turns 
out most of the discussion on this list is related to S4 lamps, 
which are somewhat different internally.

I'm accumulating ecode parts now, have one TT ecode projector, 
looking for a couple more. I may also have pre2002 ecode A6 
projectors and might try to update one of my C4 cars with 
those...the A6 projector is larger than the TT and throws  
substantially more light. That having been said, the TT projector 
upgrade is pretty significant over stock ecode lamps...

Oh, and I think, but have not confirmed, that the xenon lens is a 
necessary addition to the upgrade. The ecode lens has some fluting 
directly in front of the projector, while the xenon lens does 
not...I think the fluting diminishes the performance of the 
projector and splays the light some...the cutoff isn't as sharp as 
I would have expected.

Lee
'99 A6 quattro avant (ecode allroad xenons)
'97 A6 quattro avant (tt xenons)
'96 A6 quattro avant (tt xenons)

On Tue Mar 27 19:48:37 PDT 2007, chris chambers 
<fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am acquiring a set of complete headlights from a 02 Allroad and
> I find myself wondering if the lights/electronics could be used
> instead of the TT components and be fitted inside UrS4 headlight
> housings.
> 
> I don't have TT headlight components to compare, and unless I 
> hear
> otherwise I'll be tearing into the housings to see how sizes 
> compare.
> 
> Any thoughts?
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