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[Julz]

Julz- in order to get the xenons to work you need an extra earth wire in port 8 on the plug on your wiring loom and it will work. I fitted them to mine and had to do this little mod to get them lighting.

Hope this helps

If this works I owe u a big drink my friend

[Haz93]

Not sure if everyones is the same but my connector has all 10 ports already wired up. Have not tried the lights yet as I have no bulbs or ballast
Hope to buy this soon
http://item.mobilewe...nid=12406953563
Then will try this. Does it not need any fuses or relays to work then? Just the extra earth wire?

[jgriff]

It should work, it did for me. You can either tap into the earth wire on the loom which i think is the brown wire or do what i did and just earth it off the bodywork, which leaves it easy if you ever decide to change back and your loom is intact.

The xenons need two earths to work but if you just plug it in as is, all lights will work except the xenons. I've also since fitting fitted 8000k bulbs which looks really good

[renz2012]

can you add a link to the guide your using I might try this to mine

[Haz93]

Okay so not got anywhere with this as I got bored looking. Now found two options I could go with:

Cheaper retrofit kit from Canada
http://www.ebay.co.u...9#ht_9696wt_807

Or OEM set to fit as shown earlier in thread from America
http://www.ebay.co.u...#ht_4600wt_1026

Any ideas which one to go for??

[Haz93]

Okay so a little update on this project

I got it all working !!!

Haha excitement over.

I purchased a set of Osram D3S ballasts with wiring from the american seller in the previous post and some cheap 6000k D3S bulbs. Got it all fitted and wired up using the standard ballast connector inside the headlight and nothing!! Then I realised the D3S ballast as 3 pins. Pos neg and earth. The standard D1S ballast has no earth just pos and neg. However a 3pin connector came with the ballasts so just connected the 3 wires and Success!!!!!!!! If I had not had the ballast and bulb issue the headlights would be plug and play, as no extra wiring was required to the actuall headlight unit connector. As mentioned before my loom already had all 10 pins wired up.

Will get some pics up soon

[MrGrumpy]

We want pics

[Haz93]

Haha sorry to keep you waiting

Okay so as they were when purchased :






Bulbs and ballast fitted




Halogen and Bi Xenon comparison



Testing before fitting in properly



Fitted in and ready




beam pattern and nice window reflection lol




Nice one to finish

[Rh1no]

They look sweet!

[jgriff]

Nice work there fella, glad you finally got it sorted

[Haz93]

Thanks guys has taken a while but defo worth it.
Did you notice the headlights seem a bit low when you put yours on??

Have you got any levelling on them, auto or manual??

[MrGrumpy]

Looks good! I was gonna ask for a picture of your headlight loom connector, to see if I have the required wiring, but I think yours will be different being a 2.5.

Anyone done this on a mk2?

[jgriff]

I thought they seemed low but got a mechanic to set them properly and he set they were off by very little. I don't have any levelling adjustment on them at all

[artscot79]

by the picture of the light on the house they look very low compared to standard it could be the way the pictures been taken but they dont look like they light much up

[Haz93]

Looks good! I was gonna ask for a picture of your headlight loom connector, to see if I have the required wiring, but I think yours will be different being a 2.5.

Anyone done this on a mk2?

The connectors may be a different shape but they will have the same wiring, by looking in the Haynes manual they do look a very similar shape to me. But not sure if the one the manual is a mk2 or facelift

If your connector has all 10 pins wired up it will be a straight forward plug and play, if not then wiring an earth wire is required as mentioned before