[urq] PO put in 100/80 watt bulbs and switch 8amp fuse for16amp(can i just go to DOT lights?)

[Bill Bennett]

nice page link Louis-Alain, accurate all the way through the head light relay installation if anyone is doing head light relays soon I would suggest you pick up "30" at either the alternator or the starter on a urq if you chose the starter (not the best source, the alternator is) be sure the wiring has a non conductive heat shield around it. Bill
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Louis-Alain Richard 
  To: 'steven j' ; urq at audifans.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:58 AM
  Subject: RE : [urq] PO put in 100/80 watt bulbs and switch 8amp fuse for16amp(can i just go to DOT lights?)


  Hi Steve,

  There is indeed a difference in the wiring of a H4656 sealed beam and any H4
  bulb (even if they look the same from behind). Look at this and make the
  necessary changes http://www.rallylights.com/useful_info/headlamp_wiring.htm

  HTH,

  Louis-Alain
  83 urQ, just converted to H4 recently


  -----Message d'origine-----

  Left headlamp stopped working so I figured let me
  quickly get an old fashion seal beam (H4656) incase I
  can't find the 65w halogen bulbs I had from my VW
  Rabbit days (1979).  

  Can I just plug in the H4656 instead of the pitted H4.
   I did try this and it didn't work - but then I found
  the 16amp fuse #1 was blown.  Owners manual says low
  beams just get a 8amp fuse.

  By contrast it looks like the H1's have some kind of
  wire adapter to go from DOT high beams to H1 

  So I'm hoping to get the correct 8amp fuses and just
  swap in some halogen sealed beams.  My priority is -
  no fires.

  Actually the wiring for the low beam does look like it
  was modified - there is a small white plastic cylinder
  with ends which wires pass into.  These ends screw
  into a center section which is filled with a metal
  rodwith conical ends that the end wires are compressed
  into.  A connector of sorts.  

  steve   


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