[V8] HID's for V8

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Yup. True HIDs are special bulbs filled with xenon gas and requiring a dedicated ballast for each side and usually used for low beam only. 

Ingo Rautenberg

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Simmons <indischrot at gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:28:24 
To:Ron Wainwright <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>
Cc:v8 at audifans.com, rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com
Subject: Re: [V8] HID's for V8


I was under the impression that HID used a xenon gas and a special bulb, 
not just super-hot halogen bulbs.  Don't they call that HIR or 
something?  Or is HID just a generic term?

~Scott S.

Ron Wainwright wrote:

>HIDS use less power to through more light.
>
> Ron
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>--- Roger Woodbury <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com> wrote:
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>>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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