[s-cars] HID wiring

[Martin Baggenstos]

I just got down doing a retrofit with a TT projector in my 95 S6 and was
able to do it without needing a bracket. In repairing my fog light housing
which had a broken bracket, I accidently reinstalled it upside down. The
shields (which cutoffs the light beam) on the foglights are upside down as
opposed to the lowbeam shields which are on the bottom so one of my
fog-light shields is on the bottom as opposed to the top. I have been
looking at the beam pattern and trying to figure out what happens with the
shield being put on the wrong position. Any thoughts.

Martin

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Harold McComas
<haroldmccomas at comcast.net>wrote:

> IIRC, the DOT actually had a requirement to "throw" some light upwards to
> illuminate overhead signs. Of course this dates back to when the signs were
> not reflective.
>
> Harold
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>> To: JAM <jscarstuff at charter.net>
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>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] HID wiring
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>> Jason - you are exactly right - the DOT spec includes that fuzzy periphery
>> as a requirement while Euros are contrarily spec'd for sharp cutoffs. To
>> each their own I guess, most people really seem to prefer the Euro but
>> obviously not all... And that IS why DOT requires what they do...
>>
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>> On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:36, "JAM" <jscarstuff at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>  I'm not sure I wholly agree with the assessment that euro lenses on the
>>> DOT headlights are the way to go.  When I did this "upgrade," I noticed that
>>> the light travels much farther straight ahead of the car and this is what I
>>> think everybody says is the improvement.  My problem is where I loose a lot
>>> of light on the perphery.  It seems that the DOT lenses put more fluting in
>>> front of the high beams to create more spread of the light and illuminate
>>> the sides of the road better.  I really felt like I lost something when I
>>> upgraded to the ecode lenses....for those of us who live in the country know
>>> we need to keep our eyes peeled for deer and other critters who like to jump
>>> out of the darkness into the path of my 2 ton moving object.
>>>
>>> I'm sure others disagree but its just my $.02.
>>>
>>> Jason Mawhinney
>>> '95 S6 w/ecode lenses (for better or worse)
>>> '90 CQ
>>> '83 urq
>>>
>>
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