[Vwdiesel] RE: [V6-12v] Re: Bulbs

[James Hansen]

Yeah, I put a scirocco conversion on the A2 years ago after breaking one of
the useless lights and grill and hood on a deer, because I couldn't see it
at night.  Now I have 4 lights which total 400w on high, 60 on low, all
regular halogen with hella lenses.  Very advisable to do.  It's BRIGHT now,
but doesn't hurt oncoming eyes like the stock DOT lenses did at all with low
wattage bulbs in even.  Hesitate to just put brighter bulbs in any DOT
housing, they aren't a very good pattern to start with. With Xenons, you get
a VERY annoying light for the oncoming traffic unless  they are adjusted
PERFECTLY ALL THE TIME, even when you change loads in the car. Hazardous for
oncoming traffic if they are blinded by your lights when you have a
passenger in the back for a change, of a trunk load of groceries.
Automatically adusting lights are almost a necessity.  Halogens don't do
this nearly as badly.  The dichroic coatings on bulbs to tint the lights are
crap for vision, and are for looks only. Please don't go this route. Leave
them for the rice boys.
-James

>   Gee, unless you get new lenses, which it doesn't look like you do with
> the conversions being bulb number interchangeable.  What improvement
> do you really get?  Certainly with the A2 bodies all you'd get is more,
> brighter light scattered all over the road and into oncoming
> driver's eyes.
> I'd be more inclined to go with a E-code conversion.  You get a better
> dispersion lens, by FAR, than the DOT lenses and then you use the
> regular bulbs.  All for about half the cost of the HID conversion.
>      Loren

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