[urq] H1/H4 quad headlights

[Keith Lloyd]

Being an 87 WR my car has the one-piece slope-front units. I ran it as 
standard but with supposedly 50% brighter bulbs and it was a bit better than 
normal. Then I made up a new loom using scavenged wiring from a coupe 
quattro donor car and did the relayed conversion with power feed from the 
alternator. It is awesome. Almost like daylight. I used three relays, two 
for dip beam and one for main (on the basis of if a dip beam relay failed I 
would still have one working to get me home). I have had no failures to 
date. The conversion was well worthwhile.
my 2p worth (well almost 2p worth)
Keith


-----Original Message----- 
From: fdekat
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 5:23 PM
To: urq at audifans.com
Subject: [urq] H1/H4 quad headlights

Hello Patrick:

> I intend to use the quad headlight setup on my 1981 .
> Now these are known to be "not very bright" .

If you are meaning the 'older' rectangular setup, I beg to (qualified)
disagree..

If you use sealed beam bulbs, then I'd probably agree with you.

If you use the halogen conversions (that you must be intending to use, as 
you
mentioned h4 & h1 bulbs) then I think you will be pleasantly surprised, even
with running H4 (only) on low beam, and h1/h4 (both bulbs) on high beam.

I'd say that with higher power bulbs, and proper relaying the quads are just
as good as the later 'one piece' H1/H4 assemblies. As a bonus, the quad 
setup
is easier to aim, and don't have all the little adjuster parts that break.

=Frank=


> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:48:03 +0200
> From: "Patrick Carlier" <p.carlier at pandora.be>
> To: "'urq Audifans'" <urq at audifans.com>
> Subject: [urq] H1/H4 quad headlights
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> I intend to use the quad headlight setup on my 1981 .
> Now these are known to be "not very bright" .
> And I'll be using the french/swiss yellow lenses wich will make thing even
> worse .
> So I was thinking of ways to improve this .
>
> The outer lights , the low beam  H4 's ue a dual filament bulb .
> In other cars the low/high beam is lit by switching power from one
> filmament to another .
> In the ur'q the high beam filament is simply not wired and the inner H1's
> ase used instead .
> So a way to improve the high beam would be to wire the H4 high beam in
> parallel with the H1
> and have all 4 lamps working . Offcourse that woud require a decent
> realy-ing and rewiring .
>
> Then I thought , yes I did a lot of thinking :) , why not replace the H1 
> 's
>  and
> use  H4's instead  . That would , if properly wired , make a dual low beam
> and a dual high beam
> on both sides .
>
> Anyone ever tried this ? Thought's idea's ... fire away .


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