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gozz
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #2 on: Apr 4th, 2009, 8:42am » |
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I think Savvy may have converted the ex Big Neil Y reg as well.
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Matt
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #3 on: Apr 6th, 2009, 6:23pm » |
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ive done mine, its a easy conversion, plug and play, 6000k is best for the scorpio,
give the focusing lenses a good clean too
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cheers Matt, i'll give it a try in the next few weeks 
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lesterlad aka Rodders
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #5 on: Apr 6th, 2009, 10:47pm » |
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on Apr 6th, 2009, 6:23pm, Matt wrote:ive done mine, its a easy conversion, plug and play, 6000k is best for the scorpio,
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Is that a Headlight unit out job or can it be cleaned in situ ?
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Baz
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #6 on: Apr 7th, 2009, 8:58am » |
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When i fitted mine, i took the front lenses off the car and did everything in situ. The ballast units were fitted behind the lamp units where there is more room and they are less likely to get damaged or wet!
It took about 2 or 3 hours to do everything and looked pretty good at the end
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Scorpio_Mike
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #7 on: Apr 7th, 2009, 3:12pm » |
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Pretty sure these Xenon conversions with aftermarket kits are not legal... 
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wojtekor
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Mike you're joking?! god, i was just about to order them... [got my ebay opened in another tab]
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Matt
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #9 on: Apr 7th, 2009, 5:57pm » |
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its easlier if you take the whole lamp out as you need to get the front glass lense off to do it
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amigafan2003
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #10 on: Apr 7th, 2009, 6:36pm » |
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Quote:| Pretty sure these Xenon conversions with aftermarket kits are not legal... Undecided |
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As with most things, it's open to debate. The sticking point is not the light itself but the self leveling mechanism (or lack of when retro-fitted).
Myself - my old car always went through MOT's no probs with HID fitted. A friends car failed on the HID's - took it to a different garagae - they passed it.
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wojtekor
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so it's basically better not to mess with it...
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rich1
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #12 on: Apr 7th, 2009, 10:07pm » |
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is it not the light that are illegal , but some of the colours that people use??
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #13 on: Apr 8th, 2009, 8:03am » |
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Quote:| is it not the light that are illegal , but some of the colours that people use?? |
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Not really. There are three main points:-
Anything that isn't white SHOULD fail
You need self levelers
You need headlamp washers.
It's all open to interpretation. I'm firnedly with my MOT center and they don't see any issues with them as long as they are the right colour, the headlamps are clean when they test the car and the beam pattern is correct.
Other MOT tester however don't like them.
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Have a chat with the chap that does your MOT's for his opinion. For what it's worth, I know many more cars with aftermarket kits that pass rather than fail.
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tlundkvi
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #14 on: Apr 8th, 2009, 10:13am » |
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on Apr 8th, 2009, 8:03am, amigafan2003 wrote:
Anything that isn't white SHOULD fail
You need self levelers
You need headlamp washers.
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+ the headlight needs to be approved to be used in conjunction with HID bulbs (however problems are less likely with projector lens lights). Some say that HID bulbs are not too good with reflector lights.
The reason why they pass: MOT is carried out by humans and is subjective. Some technicians pay more attention to dangerous cars with bad brakes etc. than §§§.
BUT, to have mounted ballasts in the hood is not illegal. Just use the aftermarket HID 364 days/year and the halogens on MOT-day.
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wojtekor
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i went to the garage today to check the progress on my car and as they also run an MOT station i asked them about those conversion kits and i've been told that they are 1000% road legal as long as they are about 6000 Kelvins above that they are to bright and below they don't exactly give the white light... so i'll be buying a 6000K conversion kit soon
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tlundkvi
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #16 on: Apr 25th, 2009, 3:11pm » |
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on Apr 7th, 2009, 8:06pm, wojtekor wrote:| so it's basically better not to mess with it... |
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You just take them off on MOT Day, or disconnect it and put the standard bulb in. They can't fail because ballasts are mounted but not in use. If you get stopped by the police, you can say you were assured they were legal.
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wojtekor
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tlundkvi they are legal, under certain conditions stated in my previous post 
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Tekno
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #18 on: Sep 20th, 2009, 9:32am » |
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Which parking light bulbs have you used? Original bulb looks so yellow with xenons 
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Re: XENON conversion
« Reply #19 on: Sep 20th, 2009, 2:27pm » |
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I put hids in about 12 months ago and it passed the mot with no problems, I used the 6000k and just replaced them in place, not to hard. The only down side is I get flashed a bit unless I point them down a bit.
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