[V8] HID's for V8

[jpb3]

All,

Well, I installed a cheap Hong Kong HID kit from a group buy about two years
ago in my other Audi (UrS6) that had US DOT lenses and the difference is
literally night and day! (pun intended)

It is by far the best mod (and one of the least expensive) I have done to my
Audi's.

Not sure what type of bulbs came with my HID kit but I do know I got the
4300K temp so they are white and not blue and most importantly came with
Mcullough (sp?) ballasts.

I thouroughly endorse this mod, and when I get the V8 back on the road they
will get a set.

John B.



On Jan 18, 2008 7:12 AM, Roger Woodbury <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> I confess that I haven't been faithfully reading all of the posts in this
> most current thread, but I wanted to pose a question regarding the
> retrofitting of V8 headlights with HID equipment.
>
> What is going to be gained, I wonder?  Won't it depend entirely on which
> headlight assembly is being used?  If you install (somehow) a much more
> powerful light source inside a regular USDOT headlight shell, it seems to
> me
> that all you will get is a much brighter terrible headlight.
>
> If the headlight is a European shell, then HID stuff will be, what,
> brighter
> than 130 watt halogen H4 plus, say a 100 H3?  Why?  Aside from being
> totally
> obnoxious to that totally obnoxious Ford F250 driver who won't dip...or
> maybe that incredibly stupid broad in the Subaru Forrester who has her fog
> lights on and high beams on all the time by definition, I doubt that the
> light "throw" is any better nor has any better beam pattern.
>
> The problem with US DOT headlights is the beam pattern that is in the lens
> primarily.  Poor focus, poor light distribution and little differentiation
> between high and low beam aside from the difference in aiming of the high
> beam filament.
>
> I was reading the Maine DOT vehicle inspection procedure manual yesterday,
> and I can see how it will become impossible for a TYPE 44 Audi to pass
> inspection at some point just due to the fact that the car is an older
> Audi.
> IF the inspection station ever gets around to actually looking at the
> headlights in my car, it will an automatic rejection.
>
> Roger
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