Folks,

 

 

Need all the help I can get. Recently had installed a Xenon kit purchased from Luke at the Zcentre. Fabulous piece of kit. All is working fine. However, now since my lights are bluish in colour, whenever I flick my headlamps, I still get the old bulbs come on thus I am guessing your headlamps are not Xenon when you install the kit or has there been a major oversight somewhere ?

 

Also, my front bumper side lights are still the old fashioned bulbs and don't match at all with the Xenons. Where would I get some coloured bluish bulbs to match and does anyone know what fittement/name etc. I have a Jap spec TT.

 

 

Cheers !

Folks,

 

 

Need all the help I can get. Recently had installed a Xenon kit purchased from Luke at the Zcentre. Fabulous piece of kit. All is working fine. However, now since my lights are bluish in colour, whenever I flick my headlamps, I still get the old bulbs come on thus I am guessing your headlamps are not Xenon when you install the kit or has there been a major oversight somewhere ?

 

Also, my front bumper side lights are still the old fashioned bulbs and don't match at all with the Xenons. Where would I get some coloured bluish bulbs to match and does anyone know what fittement/name etc. I have a Jap spec TT.

 

 

Cheers !

 

Hi Sy

 

I think the kit only replaces the dipped beam, so the main beam will still be the old halogen bulbs. When you flash the main beam the dipped turn off - there is a way to wire it so they stay on

 

http://www.aus300zx.com/tech/H-light_conversion.doc

 

AndrewG was also looking into a way of doing this....

 

HTH

 

Jeremy

thats not legal though.

That's the wiring modification (http://www.aus300zx.com/tech/H-light_conversion.doc) I plan to do when I finally get round to fitting the HID dip beam kit.

 

How do OEM setups with HID dip beam deal with the headlight main beam flash and the main beam on conditions?

 

-Andrew

1. Colour coordinating the side lights/fog lights: I've got LED bulbs for the side lights which are very close to 6000K in colour (ie good match for 6000K HID kits). Price: £17/pair

 

2. Colour coordinating main beam: this is very difficult to do because there are only a handful of H1 55W bulbs that can match the 6000K colour temp of the HIDs. I don't have these in stock at the moment but can get them via special order. Price: £20/pair

 

3. HID kits will only convert the dip beam, therefore your main beam remains halogen. You can, if you are so inclined, convert your main beam to HID as well but this is not recommended. Why? Because main beam is primarily used for flashing and the life of a HID bulb is directly related to how often it is flicked on/off. You are better off fitting colour coordinated H1 halogen bulbs to your main beam.

 

4. Andrew - in stock configuration (ie dip = HID / main = halogen) the flashing pattern is as follows:

 

Lights off: flash = main on/dip off

Lights on (ie dip on): flash = main on/dip off

 

I would very much like to get the car rewired to either keeping both the dip and main on during flashing or (and in my opinion better still because then you can fit HIDs in the main as well) wire the system up to flash the fog lights rather than the main beam.

 

I hope the above has been of some use to you. If there are any more questions, please feel free to ask me.

 

Regards,

 

Dan