Hey, just a quick thread to see who has changed there headlights to different bulbs or a full H.I.D kit, also some pictures of these changes aswell. Just want to see this out of curiosity beacuse i want to change mine but not quite sure what to opt for yet.

looking forward to seeing the pics, Thanks ;)

changed all of mine including fogs too xenon-look halogens... then look good enough too me being honest from drivers seat and get rid of that horrible standard colour

What bulbs did you get Nico?

I'm also after something similar, mainly to get rid of the damn orange indicator bulbs

i've got HIDs in.

gotta say, they were so easy to fit and working on the mk7 headlights compared to the other cars i've done it on was an absolute dream, and there is a perfect spot for the ballasts under the lamp as well, just sikaflex'd them on :)

If its just a bulb type you are after rather than them in an MK7 I can take a picture tonight of Osram cool blue headlight.

http://www.fordownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9659&st=30

Scroll down a tad you can see pics compared to normal lights

http://www.fordownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9659&st=30

Scroll down a tad you can see pics compared to normal lights

Thats the exact look im going for mate. what did you use?

mikester

Posted Today, 05:38 PM

i've got HIDs in.

gotta say, they were so easy to fit and working on the mk7 headlights compared to the other cars i've done it on was an absolute dream, and there is a perfect spot for the ballasts under the lamp as well, just sikaflex'd them on

Have you got any pics mikester? would love to see that as well, however i just like the white light, i hate the blue look you get off some of the kits.

Cheers for all the replys :)

changed all of mine including fogs too xenon-look halogens... then look good enough too me being honest from drivers seat and get rid of that horrible standard colour

That looks really well, you can see the nice crisp light off the ground, are they a lot better for driving with as well?

Thanks

no pics but they're 6000k so they're similar to the standard ones you get in ford xenon upgrades. here's a pic of the same colour temperature HIDs on my ST:

Niiiiiccccceeee ^^^^^

:D

I used 4300k

i was thinking of doing exacly the same thing (changing my bulbs to white). i picked some up from halfords but on the back they said for "off road use only". so i didnt get them...are any of yours the "for off use only" bulbs?

sorry not been on computer all weekend to reply too your questions... yeh they do help better i think, they make the road look like daylight! and i just got some xenon 6000k look-a-like ones off ebay, they dont cost much and dont have too fiddle with car worrying about warranty n that

took this half way through fitting them tooo.... the left it the new bulb right standard

Ive got some 4000k Phillips BlueVison Bulbs for dipped beam- will take pics and show results when I pick up the car.

YEllow Lights on a white car wouldnt go well. Also got LED sidelights from previous fiesta.

I have just had a H4 HI/LO bi-xenon kit fitted by a local independent mechanic (ex-Citroen Foreman, who checked with his MoT-testing contacts at the garage he liases with after doing pre-MoT work.).

It took a couple of hours as it was his first Kit (our Chavs just go for big exhausts/alloys/polish and lots of petrol and boom-boxes.

My kit came via a group-buy at "scoobynetforum", with 25% discount. they are now on yet another group-buy, and only need about 5 committed and paid customers before they will send off again for fresh stock. Cost was ~£90 + £10 recorded delivery:-- spare parts in warehouse, if bulbs or ballasts go. The trade seller is registered on the scoobynet website as "BOB'5", and his firm is Aztec Performance Ltd.

He says that not one of his customers has failed an MoT, which I can easily believe, as my dip beam is as clean a cut-off and as long as the best uprated filament bulbs I ever used, and these 35watt burners, with a clear white 4300 deg kelvin colour temperature, won't attract police over "Too-Bright" or "Too-Blue", or "light-bleed" as there is no flare with these. I checked the flare against the gable-end of our car-accessories emporium, before doing a couple of midnight runs thro' a twisty forest with 4' high dykes each side, + pavements. The full-beam has a useful kick-up to the left, and the dip is a long pool of clearly cut-off white light, even after removing my PIAA HE303 H4's which are 110/100 equivalent, from 60/55watts, and had cost ~£50 the pair fron Motaman, Bristol. (colour temperature 4000 deg kelvin, and V. good, but will burn-out quickly, as all highly uprated filament bulbs do. I shall be parking my car facing the early morning sun to discourage mist in the perspex shells, as these bulbs are so much cooler than the standard ones. I might get pulled for my PIAA Terra H520 501/T10 sidelight bulbs.

I am very happy with these bulbs, and the HID kit has an 18-month warranty;-- the firm specialises in Scooby/Evo needs, mostly suspension/discs/callipers/bushes/lighting.

The old bulky ballast units were replaced a year ago with minute Superslim digital units, which can be stuck up almost anywhere. They have a soft-start, so forget flashing unless they are already on dip, but you can flash from side-lights-on, by using the pull-out light-knob feature for my FOGS -- should give the message.

I have yet to be flashed while using my new HID dip-beams. My Japanese PIAA H4's had a long main beam, but short on dip length. The HID's are as claimed, bright white, and easily 3X halogen brightness and a very good long pool of light that won't disturb uncoming drivers, due to clean cut-off. Quality HID's last 10 times the life of standard halogens, ans V. uprated Halogens like the best from Osram, and Philips suffer a reduction in bulb-life of 40%, due to being driven hard & hot.

I have read plausible web adverts for kits with european or Japanese electronics, but with bulbs/burners made in the far-east. The burner is the most vital part (only Osram and Philips ones EU approved,-- inc. now a 5,000 deg Kelvin version, as seen in Autoexpress). Ballasts have failed in the past, so a lot of forums reccommend sourcing kits from U.K. addresses, for V. Quick return-of-post spares available. I once had to wait 3 months for a replacement Toyota Corolla D Sportif 5dr, after my Son had totalled it at 3-months old, and a 6-day-old driving license. Container-ships from Asia are very slow. (P.S., my HID kit supplier supplies the trade also, he just dabbles in the scooby/evo deals to cover his batch import costs, so even if you miss a deadline for a bulk-buy listing, you will very likely find he has plenty stock after the container-load arrives. His 'Phone-line gets answered first by an answering service woman who relays messages to him in his warehouse, but at less busy times of day, I did actually speak to the man himself, and got my 25% discount retrospectively, as a credit-note, as I hadn't noticed the discount for Scoobynet people until the day after I ordered. (on-line ordering;-rapid)

Installation guides by other firms are often better, for the less DIY-inclined folk,but I just don't like leaning over an engine bay getting a sore back, so I downloaded other writeups, for my mechanic to study, and the short videos on-line are amazingly simple.

My ballasts buzz a little until full brightness is achieved, then they are silent. No odd effects on audio/CD, or Wipers etc. I had heard that some cars need CANbus compatible ballasts, costing usually £15 more.

A major U.K. firm;-- HIDS4U, seem to have V. good products, and developed better pattern bulbs, at twice other U.K. co. prices, but poor write-ups on office personnel. You just can't rely on getting German bulbs in the kit, no matter how the wording of an advert goes. We just have to remamber that not ALL Chinese Q.C. is naff, just Honda's first experience was salutary., They are now happily building the JAZZ and other cars there. The Jap's now send in Q.C.teams of staff.

we sell diamond vision 5000k Hid replica bulbs on our site , thats always an option for you.

www.fordpartscentre.co.uk

I have just had a H4 HI/LO bi-xenon kit fitted by a local independent mechanic (ex-Citroen Foreman, who checked with his MoT-testing contacts at the garage he liases with after doing pre-MoT work.).

It took a couple of hours as it was his first Kit (our Chavs just go for big exhausts/alloys/polish and lots of petrol and boom-boxes.

My kit came via a group-buy at "scoobynetforum", with 25% discount. they are now on yet another group-buy, and only need about 5 committed and paid customers before they will send off again for fresh stock. Cost was ~£90 + £10 recorded delivery:-- spare parts in warehouse, if bulbs or ballasts go. The trade seller is registered on the scoobynet website as "BOB'5", and his firm is Aztec Performance Ltd.

He says that not one of his customers has failed an MoT, which I can easily believe, as my dip beam is as clean a cut-off and as long as the best uprated filament bulbs I ever used, and these 35watt burners, with a clear white 4300 deg kelvin colour temperature, won't attract police over "Too-Bright" or "Too-Blue", or "light-bleed" as there is no flare with these. I checked the flare against the gable-end of our car-accessories emporium, before doing a couple of midnight runs thro' a twisty forest with 4' high dykes each side, + pavements. The full-beam has a useful kick-up to the left, and the dip is a long pool of clearly cut-off white light, even after removing my PIAA HE303 H4's which are 110/100 equivalent, from 60/55watts, and had cost ~£50 the pair fron Motaman, Bristol. (colour temperature 4000 deg kelvin, and V. good, but will burn-out quickly, as all highly uprated filament bulbs do. I shall be parking my car facing the early morning sun to discourage mist in the perspex shells, as these bulbs are so much cooler than the standard ones. I might get pulled for my PIAA Terra H520 501/T10 sidelight bulbs.

I am very happy with these bulbs, and the HID kit has an 18-month warranty;-- the firm specialises in Scooby/Evo needs, mostly suspension/discs/callipers/bushes/lighting.

The old bulky ballast units were replaced a year ago with minute Superslim digital units, which can be stuck up almost anywhere. They have a soft-start, so forget flashing unless they are already on dip, but you can flash from side-lights-on, by using the pull-out light-knob feature for my FOGS -- should give the message.

I have yet to be flashed while using my new HID dip-beams. My Japanese PIAA H4's had a long main beam, but short on dip length. The HID's are as claimed, bright white, and easily 3X halogen brightness and a very good long pool of light that won't disturb uncoming drivers, due to clean cut-off. Quality HID's last 10 times the life of standard halogens, ans V. uprated Halogens like the best from Osram, and Philips suffer a reduction in bulb-life of 40%, due to being driven hard & hot.

I have read plausible web adverts for kits with european or Japanese electronics, but with bulbs/burners made in the far-east. The burner is the most vital part (only Osram and Philips ones EU approved,-- inc. now a 5,000 deg Kelvin version, as seen in Autoexpress). Ballasts have failed in the past, so a lot of forums reccommend sourcing kits from U.K. addresses, for V. Quick return-of-post spares available. I once had to wait 3 months for a replacement Toyota Corolla D Sportif 5dr, after my Son had totalled it at 3-months old, and a 6-day-old driving license. Container-ships from Asia are very slow. (P.S., my HID kit supplier supplies the trade also, he just dabbles in the scooby/evo deals to cover his batch import costs, so even if you miss a deadline for a bulk-buy listing, you will very likely find he has plenty stock after the container-load arrives. His 'Phone-line gets answered first by an answering service woman who relays messages to him in his warehouse, but at less busy times of day, I did actually speak to the man himself, and got my 25% discount retrospectively, as a credit-note, as I hadn't noticed the discount for Scoobynet people until the day after I ordered. (on-line ordering;-rapid)

Installation guides by other firms are often better, for the less DIY-inclined folk,but I just don't like leaning over an engine bay getting a sore back, so I downloaded other writeups, for my mechanic to study, and the short videos on-line are amazingly simple.

My ballasts buzz a little until full brightness is achieved, then they are silent. No odd effects on audio/CD, or Wipers etc. I had heard that some cars need CANbus compatible ballasts, costing usually £15 more.

A major U.K. firm;-- HIDS4U, seem to have V. good products, and developed better pattern bulbs, at twice other U.K. co. prices, but poor write-ups on office personnel. You just can't rely on getting German bulbs in the kit, no matter how the wording of an advert goes. We just have to remamber that not ALL Chinese Q.C. is naff, just Honda's first experience was salutary., They are now happily building the JAZZ and other cars there. The Jap's now send in Q.C.teams of staff.

you approve then i take it?

thi is somthing i have to concider i bought my car and thougt to my self new car i dnt have to mess but !Removed! it i want sum white light for my white car!!

we sell diamond vision 5000k Hid replica bulbs on our site , thats always an option for you.

www.fordpartscentre.co.uk

any chance of a FOC discount? :P

i was thinking of doing exacly the same thing (changing my bulbs to white). i picked some up from halfords but on the back they said for "off road use only". so i didnt get them...are any of yours the "for off use only" bulbs?

ALL aftermarket HID kits in the U.K. have to be labelled "off-road use only", because the laws of the Country are not up-to-date, and do not mention discharge bulb lighting for cars, so the U.K. authorities are "Expressing an Opinion" in offering guidelines;-- they have not been tested in court. Mainland Europe have Laws covering these bulbs and special headlight shells and self-levelling devices to quickly respond to potholes to prevent dazzle to other drivers, and powerful headlamp washer jets to stop light scatter arising from mucky headlamps. I have seen legal self-levelling Range-Rover HID's bouncing upon hitting a pothole, so I'd rather not have this naff type of anti-bounce gear. Headlamps getting dirty is nothing new, so why legislate for only HID lighting? I am in the habit of cleaning my headlamps, even if I leave the paintwork for better weather. I will wash them when on a long grimy trip;-- I'm not daft, and I want to see where I'm going, that is the reason for getting more light on the road, -- I don't want blue light, as it's no good for seeing by;-- above 4300 degrees colour temperature, the light output drops, and your eyes don't respond well to very blue light, so 6000 deg kelvin is the top practical choice fof colour, but it lowers the brightness. (You could counter this by using the 55 watt HID's, but the polis might notice, as they are getting wiser.)

Fitting blueish HID's to a nice looking beemer or merc is likely to get ignored unless speeding, but a chavish car tends to get pulled over just for a "once-over" and you may just have a nice chat if you keep cool and polite, and thank them for pointing out something that may warrant a bit of attention. A big tail-pipe/loud boom-box/flame-paint art work on the front wings, tends to get attention. I'm a 61-year-old "old-Grey" who has just been given the latest CD by GORRILAZ;- I have 2 other CD's by them and I'm into Fleetwood Mac/ Led Zeppelin/Ry Cooder/Bob Marley/Norah Jones; etc., etc. I don't like the idea that the law could strike me hard, just to prove they can, so I've gone for 35 watts Bi-xenons/no detango/LED front sidelights/no big back-box/18 cm long sabre radio aerial, so I can find my car, as the colour is just too common. The radio is fine, but I upgraded the interior light to the Mk 1 Focus Maplight version (£28 notes.) Under the bonnet is nearly standard-- denso iridium tough sparkplugs and pipercross air filter.

I once used very uprated legal 60/55W PIAA Extreme White PLUS bulbs putting out 110/100 worth of light, but with only 3 months warranty, for £50/pair, and a life-expectancy of 60% of a basic bulb, I reckon the X10 life boost of HID burners will pay for itself, and they are WAY BRIGHTER, clean cut-off on dip, and no flare in long beam.

To be safe from the law, go for Philips Extreme , or Osram Night Breakers, at ~£20/pair, on-line. Avoid Ring, or heavy blue tint. GEC Megalite are sold in Halford boxes (gold), with 50% brighter output, but check they are a proper pair, as they also use ALITE, in the same boxes. With such a moderate boost, the loss of life is slight.

any chance of a FOC discount? :P

they have to be special order so couldnt knock anything off but could stick a set of 501 super white sidelight bulbs in free of charge as your FOC discount ;)

you approve then i take it?

Yes, I thoroughly approve, and have just searched for proper insurance cover that includes these non-standard mods (lighting and pipercross panel air-filter, and denso iridium tough sparkplugs ), and got the A.A. Insurance brokers to quote £157 fully comp for my wife and I (underwriter GROUPAMA). I am a full member of the A.A., so I expect I got some discount. They could also have got me cover thro' my present firm (FORTIS), but they would be a bit dearer. Another broker quoted me £30 more than the A.A., with the same underwriter (GROUPAMA)

The A.A. cover had an excess of only £100, and glass cover at £50, and zero for chip repairs.

Compare that with £225 via "SKY", the broker specialist on this site, although he said that was a basic start-point, and could allow for additions with no extra premium (I would expect an admin charge every time you add something). Details in the post.

That £157 quote is the same as now, inc. legal cover, and I am with Fortis, living in the cheapest area grade.