[V6-12v] RE: V6-12v Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

[Roger M. Woodbury]

 We have E-code headlights in my wife's 100CS Avant Quattro.  She needs the
best lighting possible as she is less comfortable driving at night than she
used to be.  She finds the headlights to be amazingly better than the OEM US
lights, and basically, so do I.

What I have noticed from these headlights is that they have a dark patch on
high beams about 100 feet or so out in front of the car, although the total
illumination is outstanding.  

I had European headlights in both my Audi V8 (now dearly departed!), and in
the '89 200 Quattro Avant that I had before we bought the 100CS.  By far the
best combination of lighting was in either the 200 or the V8.  Of the two,
probably the V8's were a bit better.

The 200 lamps came from Blaufernugen, and had "standard" bulbs with all
bulbs relayed.  The V8's lamps came from the Fatherland and were slightly
used.  But they came with 130v. high beam bulbs, and the difference between
the H4 low beam side which was "standard"wattage, and the highbeams
qugmented by the 130V H3 bulbs was astounding.  

I am about to put my "new" daily driver on the road....a refurbished 200
20Valve Avant, and that car has standard oem headlights which have relays
installed. The headlights were not terrible on the trip to Maine from
Washington DC when I bought the car, but I will eventually put European
headlamps in it, and the high beam bulbs will be 130Volt, with all bulbs
relayed.

Roger