Looking to fit some HID's do I need canbus compliant ones for my P1? thought the bulb warning system was just for the brake lights?
Looking to fit some HID's do I need canbus compliant ones for my P1? thought the bulb warning system was just for the brake lights?
Steve
98 V70 R 2wd auto, RICA 310, strut brace, ITG filter. Soon to come out of mothball.
99 BMW Z3, owned from new, 30k miles, Garage Queen.
2005 Range Rover Sport 2.7 TDV6, Current project.
Fit them, if you have any trouble, get some 50w load resistors from eBay (about a fiver) and fit them across the power supply to the ballasts.
Get the cheapest HIDs you can find, they're all the same.
19t, greens, 3" inlet, 3" downpipe with race cat, V70R catback, autotech map...
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Quicksilver (Tuesday 26th August 2014)
Thanks for that, found some 55w 6k for £16, worth a punt!
Steve
98 V70 R 2wd auto, RICA 310, strut brace, ITG filter. Soon to come out of mothball.
99 BMW Z3, owned from new, 30k miles, Garage Queen.
2005 Range Rover Sport 2.7 TDV6, Current project.
Just remember... The higher the k rating.... The more of a chav you'll look lol. 4300k is proper white.
19t, greens, 3" inlet, 3" downpipe with race cat, V70R catback, autotech map...
310.2bhp / 333ft/lb
2016 Swedish Day UK "Best Modified Swede"
SOLD
Got an old discovery now.
p fandango (Wednesday 27th August 2014),Quicksilver (Thursday 28th August 2014)
i always use 6000k
Quicksilver (Thursday 28th August 2014)
Mine are 8000k oops better go buy a burberry baseball cap
V70 R-Design 2.5T "work in progress"
960 Est 2.5 24v manual " rwd old school"
S80 2.4 20v auto " put me in the dog house with her indoors"
M-R-P (Wednesday 27th August 2014),Quicksilver (Thursday 28th August 2014)
4300k is stock with a yellowy tinge but very bright.
5000k is white and very bright.
6000k is white not as bright with a blue tinge around the edges
8000k is blue and considered illegal (Police will tug you all the time)
10,000k is highly illegal as they are purple.
From 6000k up the actual amount of light on the road massively diminshes and they are rubbish in the dark.
I use 5000k.
2014 V60 Polestar 6spd Auto :: Polestar map peak boost 17.4psi :: IPD 3" DP + 150cel :: Polestar 2.5" exhaust :: Paddle Shift Geartronic :: Black glass :: Maxton Splitter :: K+N Filter :: IPD Aluminium Top engine mount :: Brembo 6 pots :: 20" Polestar rims :: Brembo 371mm floating discs :: Sensus RTi + DAB + BT + WIFi :: D3S XENARC 6000k Active bending headlights
To answer your question...No.
I used normal HID's on my P1R and they were fine. Just make sure you get the correct type of bulb, ie Projector or reflector type. Get it wrong and you definately will look like a chav and you'll piss other road users off with your un metered light polution!
2014 V60 Polestar 6spd Auto :: Polestar map peak boost 17.4psi :: IPD 3" DP + 150cel :: Polestar 2.5" exhaust :: Paddle Shift Geartronic :: Black glass :: Maxton Splitter :: K+N Filter :: IPD Aluminium Top engine mount :: Brembo 6 pots :: 20" Polestar rims :: Brembo 371mm floating discs :: Sensus RTi + DAB + BT + WIFi :: D3S XENARC 6000k Active bending headlights
Quicksilver (Friday 29th August 2014)
Disagree entirely. The ones that Duane fitted to the D5 are like flood lights and they're 6000K rating. The dipped beams are running standard bulbs at the moment and when I dip the lights for a car coming the other way, it's like going from having flood lights to candles. 6000K are very bright!
You would do and as Pedro says, they are 50w not the standard 35w, so that doesn't count!
You cannot compare a 35w with a 50w as you will get a completely different light output.
So, going back to what I originally said.......
4300k is stock with a yellowy tinge but very bright.
5000k is white and very bright.
6000k is white not as bright with a blue tinge around the edges
8000k is blue and considered illegal (Police will tug you all the time)
10,000k is highly illegal as they are purple.
From 6000k up the actual amount of light on the road massively diminshes and they are rubbish in the dark.
2014 V60 Polestar 6spd Auto :: Polestar map peak boost 17.4psi :: IPD 3" DP + 150cel :: Polestar 2.5" exhaust :: Paddle Shift Geartronic :: Black glass :: Maxton Splitter :: K+N Filter :: IPD Aluminium Top engine mount :: Brembo 6 pots :: 20" Polestar rims :: Brembo 371mm floating discs :: Sensus RTi + DAB + BT + WIFi :: D3S XENARC 6000k Active bending headlights
The use of HID lamps have been a bone of contention for a long time.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...-headlamps.pdf
I have to be honest and and say I do get irritated by the extremely bright DRL's and HiD's used on more recently built cars!!! Just want to get my own back!!!
Plus my brother has moved to deepest Cornwall to the end of the longest, narrowest, darkest lane I've ever been down and I realised how crap my lights were!!
We have street lights in Devon!!
Looking forward to getting them fitted!
Maybe just have to change back to standard for the Mot.
Last edited by Quicksilver; Friday 29th August 2014 at 23:36.
Steve
98 V70 R 2wd auto, RICA 310, strut brace, ITG filter. Soon to come out of mothball.
99 BMW Z3, owned from new, 30k miles, Garage Queen.
2005 Range Rover Sport 2.7 TDV6, Current project.
I fit some 35w 8000k to mine 2 weeks ago. They do not look blue in the slightest (and yes, i know they should but they dont) and i have been out most nights and not been tugged once by the rozzers (and i live in Bradford so there are plenty of them about... rozzers and chavs that is!)
You need H7 for the main beam and H1 for the fogs.
Heres a pic
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3" Jetex front to back
Carbon Filter
Black Comets
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Quicksilver (Saturday 30th August 2014)
My kit arrived today, so I'll be fitting soon and let you know.
Steve
98 V70 R 2wd auto, RICA 310, strut brace, ITG filter. Soon to come out of mothball.
99 BMW Z3, owned from new, 30k miles, Garage Queen.
2005 Range Rover Sport 2.7 TDV6, Current project.
Well not that impressed!!! Light output not much better than standard just a different colour!! Then one started flickering!! Today it went out completely and the bulb failure light came on! When they say "plug and play" they don't say how many times!!
At the moment there both still working but for how long??
Steve
98 V70 R 2wd auto, RICA 310, strut brace, ITG filter. Soon to come out of mothball.
99 BMW Z3, owned from new, 30k miles, Garage Queen.
2005 Range Rover Sport 2.7 TDV6, Current project.
2014 V60 Polestar 6spd Auto :: Polestar map peak boost 17.4psi :: IPD 3" DP + 150cel :: Polestar 2.5" exhaust :: Paddle Shift Geartronic :: Black glass :: Maxton Splitter :: K+N Filter :: IPD Aluminium Top engine mount :: Brembo 6 pots :: 20" Polestar rims :: Brembo 371mm floating discs :: Sensus RTi + DAB + BT + WIFi :: D3S XENARC 6000k Active bending headlights
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