[V8] HID's for V8

[Ron Wainwright]

Don't get me wrong, Euros are very good in of
themselves....
http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/68533/audi_pics_680.jpg
.....but to take it one step farther...well you know
my motto ;-)

 Ron

--- Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >--- 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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