Headlight bulbs

[quattro estate]

Hopefully a success
let me know where you are

[John.]

Headlight assembled. Looks much better, will see how it works in the night.

That looks goooood !

[quattro estate]

Yes just 1 wire to each bulb
join in the unit after cutting the wire
1 unit to each bulb

[Nap51dcrow]

There is only 1 wire going into my factory headlight bulb. It is an H1 bulb. I emailed the company, waiting on a reply.

[quattro estate]

Yes that looks like the resistor
you wire in the unit inline
Cut Each live wire going to each bulb and fit the unit inline with the 2 wires on the unit, so re joining the live wire end with unit in between
hope that makes sense

[Nap51dcrow]

Also, may I ask how you did the wiring? Maybe I screwed up?

[Nap51dcrow]

You mean this thing?

[quattro estate]

They were standard resistors or ballast as sometimes called. Where ever you buy them just tell them what you need them for
there is no info on the ones I fitted

[Nap51dcrow]

Hi. You need to add a resistor for each headlight, I only paid a £5 after complaining to the headlight bulb supplier about the warning light staying on

Do you have any info about the resistor they supplied? Or did you send them the bulbs back?

[quattro estate]

Hi. You need to add a resistor for each headlight, I only paid a £5 after complaining to the headlight bulb supplier about the warning light staying on

[quattro estate]

Hi. You need to add a resistor for each headlight, I only paid a £5 after complaining to the headlight bulb supplier about the warning light staying on

[Nap51dcrow]

As mentioned, low beams, City lights, and side marker turn signal all LED

[Nap51dcrow]

Hi with an update on the bulbs just fitted to the s2. Not been out in the dark yet with these restrictions and I have sorn the car. However, as the pictures show the bulbs did not fit within the plastic cover so had to cut some away. After fitting the bulbs the bulb failure warning came on with the dip lights

Did you figure out a way to get the bulb failure warning to go away? I have fitted a similar LED set of bulbs to my car, and even though they said they would prevent the warning light, I am getting it as well. The light is a lot nicer, but the warning is annoying. Also, just to note, I have changed my side markers, and also the city light within the headlight to LED as well. They all look great.

[Tom_]

Headlight assembled. Looks much better, will see how it works in the night.

[steve briance]

That is quite interesting! The animation makes perfect sense of a lot of words.

It's a really difficult thing to predict - a high lumen light source in a poorly designed (or old and dirty) lamp definitely won't send much light down the road to lux all over the tarmac. But surely a high lumen LED output will generate good lux levels if it was fitted in a decent lamp? I though the manufacturers use of LED arrays was down to single leds at the time not being up to much?...

When I went to watch the Swedish round of the world rally championship last year, I was struck by how small the light pods were on the cars. No more Hella 3000s or cibie Oscars, LED all the way these days and damn didn't they give off a heck of a lot of light!