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I need to get a new set of H4 main bulbs for my Terios, i have a set of the Philips X-treme 80% bulbs in my company ranger which are very good but i have been looking at these HID conversion kits you can pickup on the Evil site and wondered if they are any good and worth buying for the £30+ or just to plain steer clear and go old school with standard bulbs? Any help would be great.

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I was chatting to my MOT tester and he said there's big changes coming to the MOT test next year. He specifically mentioned aftermarket HID kits and said they'd only be legal provided the vehicle they're fitted to has headlamp cleaning - either washers or wipers and self levelling suspension otherwise it'd be a failure.

 

Might just be worth checking independently before spending your hard earned cash.

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if like PhilR says you have the required things attached to your car Clearning and leveling its the best mod you could posibly do to a car.

I had some on an old vectra 7000k and it was awesome, they made night time look like day and even lit up street signs in the day light :good:

 

just make sure they are e marked but if the mot and vosa people have there way they will strt going on about the reflectors in the headlights next.

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its the best mod you could posibly do to a car.

 

Except to everybody else on the road who gets dazzled by your lights.

 

If you can't see far enough in the dark to drive safely with halogens then slow down, don't put in more powerful lights just so you can drive faster.

 

These things are one of my pet hates while driving :mad:

 

Ashley

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I had my HID's set up at a pals MOT station and it would have been impossible to dazzle anyone with them by virtue of the beam angle.

I never use my car like a boy racer but I and many others belive that if you can see further and others can see YOU sooner this is a great way to reduce the risks of an accident.

 

ajb403 - Thought you would be behind the idea if you have to do alot of country road driving at night on un-lit b roads :look:

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Except to everybody else on the road who gets dazzled by your lights.

 

If you can't see far enough in the dark to drive safely with halogens then slow down, don't put in more powerful lights just so you can drive faster.

 

These things are one of my pet hates while driving :mad:

 

Ashley

I am with you on this!

 

I had my HID's set up at a pals MOT station and it would have been impossible to dazzle anyone with them by virtue of the beam angle.

I never use my car like a boy racer but I and many others belive that if you can see further and others can see YOU sooner this is a great way to reduce the risks of an accident.

 

ajb403 - Thought you would be behind the idea if you have to do alot of country road driving at night on un-lit b roads :look:

even the factory ones dazzle to the point of not being able to see the oncoming traffic clearly you might be fine driving down an unlit B road with your HID but for us mere mortal driving towards you there can be a split second white out where all our low light vision is lost especially on bends!

 

:no:

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They already should have projector lenses, washers and self levelling :blink:

Been the law for a while, just that most MOT testers don't fail them, the ones that blind oncoming traffic are where HID's have been fitted to normal 'old style' headlamps with large lenses instead of the correct projector lens: the latter look like huge blobs of glass about 3" diameter and are found on later model cars with the very slim/small size headlamps fitted :good:

 

My 406 Coupe:

carproject179.jpg

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I was chatting to my MOT tester and he said there's big changes coming to the MOT test next year. He specifically mentioned aftermarket HID kits and said they'd only be legal provided the vehicle they're fitted to has headlamp cleaning - either washers or wipers and self levelling suspension otherwise it'd be a failure.

 

Might just be worth checking independently before spending your hard earned cash.

I heard that when considering the same thing on my old Jeep. There was also an issue with cramming all the gubbins in the space available, but that may be quite specific to that particular model of Jeep.

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The rules regarding the things detailed, are in force already, have been for a long while, the guy I take all my cars to told me about it 18 months ago :blink:

 

Not for MOT purposes, they are being bought in as advisories in January 2012 and then as failure item in April 2012.

There you go ;)

http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/repository/technicalpenpicture3-lighting.pdf

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