[urq] HIDS

Ingo Rautenberg ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 13:40:23 EST 2007


Brandon,

The reason OEM's haven't done it that way is because the HIDs take a
few seconds to power up and wouldn't do well on the flash-to-pass.  Of
course with the H4 H1, you could still have the flash-to-pass, so
yeah, why not?  :-)

Haven't made the HID switch yet.

Ingo

As cool as the High Beams would be, my understanding is the reason
they're generally not impleme

On 1/30/07, Brandon Rogers <brogers at terrix.com> wrote:
> Cool thanks.
>
> Is there a decent reason NOT to do the brights too?  Other than another
> $200 on high beams that aren't used as often....
>
> Brandon
> '84 ur
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] On
> Behalf Of Michael Hopton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:53 PM
> To: urq at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [urq] HIDS
>
>
> I have a set of HIDs in my '85 with Euro H1/H4s. They are
> on the H4s and I love them. Given the price of higher
> wattage H4s and the HID kits are now ~$200 it is hard to
> justify the "standard" bulbs.
>
> Go for ~4000K and you get very nice white colour temperature.
>
> Cheers, Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] On
> Behalf Of Brandon Rogers
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:59 PM
> To: urq at audifans.com
> Subject: [urq] HIDS
>
> Has anybody installed these in their Euro lights?
> http://www.ultimatehid.com/
>
> Good? Bad? Ugly?
>
> Any input appreciated.
>
> Brandon
> '84 ur
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