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

[The CyberPoet]

If the wife has night-vision issues, as does my fiancee, add more 
lights, specifically low-mounted driving lights designed to illuminate 
the road surface to a far-out distance without blinding other drivers. 
Hella makes supreme examples of these using 130 watt bulbs, but you can 
find cheaper alternatives out there as well. As a motorcyclist (as well 
as an Audi owner), I implore you to anything necessary to give her all 
the safety advantages she can have (if she wears glasses or contacts 
while driving, talk to the optomotrist about her night-vision; they 
have special processes for the coatings that will improve the contrast 
for night vision/driving).

Cheers
=-= Marc Glasgow

On Saturday, April 2, 2005, at 05:10 PM, Roger M. Woodbury wrote:

>
>  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
>
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