Headlights & Bulbs

[MarcB]

The Mk3 Clio came with 3 headlights from factory and im hoping that this info can help people identify them.

Halogen Headlight -

Reflector Near Side
Renault P/N: 260603414R
Valeo P/N: 088949

Reflector Off Side
Renault P/N: 260101668R
Valeo P/N: 088950



The above halogen headlight takes the following bulbs -

Main / Full Beam - Halogen H7 (Osram Nighbreakers seem to be a very good headlight bulb)
Dipped Beam - Halogen H7 (Osram Nighbreakers seem to be a very good headlight bulb)
Corner Lights - H7
Side Lights - 501 (W5W)
Indicators - PW21W (581)
Fogs - H11

Projector Headlight -

Projector Near Side
Renault P/N: 7701061074
Valeo P/N: 088953

Projector Off Side
Renault P/N: 7701061073
Valeo P/N: 088954


The above projector headlight takes the following bulbs -

Main / Full Beam - H7 (Standard Halogen bulbs can be used , Osram Night Breakers or LED bulbs can be used these lights)
Dipped Beam - H1 (Standard Halogen bulbs can be used , Osram Night Breakers or LED bulbs can be used these lights)
Corner Lights - H7
Side Lights - 501 (W5W)
Indicators - PW21W (581)
Fogs - H11

Projectors DO NOT come with any headlight washers like the Xenons do.


Xenon Headlight -
** The Xenon headlight must have headlight washer jets & self levelling for them to pass a UK MOT **




The above Xenon headlight takes the following bulbs -

Main / Full Beam - H7 (Standard Halogen bulbs can be used , Osram Night Breakers or LED bulbs can be used these lights)
Dipped Beam - D2S
Corner Lights - H7
Side Lights - 501 (W5W)
Indicators - PW21W (581)

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If you are looking for good bright 501 side light bulbs Halfords have a very good bright set -
501 LED Bulb

If you want to remove the standard orange indicator bulb you can purchase silver vision ones from Euro Car Parts -
Silver Vision Indicator Bulb



If anyone wants to add something to this please feel free too.

 

[RS13]

For the projector head lights, is there really not a better H1 bulb on the market? The standard halogen H1 with the projectors is unbelievably low in intensity. I have tried Osram night brakers which only makes the light more white, tried Philips bulbs which promise 200% intensity but again makes it only more white and tried LED TÜV approved which is actually worse then the standard halogen.

Also dismounted the headlight units and cleaned the inner works and lenses to a crisp state but no improvement unfortunately.

Reluctant to go for 100W bulbs which will probably work but bad for the electrics and too much heat for the projector lenses.

Looked at LED with a higher output but is not formally approved in Europe and comes with huge electrical connection blocks and difficult to fit due to cooling fans.

Ideas for improvement anyone?

 

[RS13]

By the way, a nice ‘French’ modest touch is to use Philips Colour Vision Yellow bulbs for high beam for instance. The bulbs are not full yellow which is of course a step too far but give a slight modest yellow glance in the head light units. The yellow only shows during day time when sunlights shines into the units but when using it, is just normal white. A nice French touch without overdoing it .

 

[RSRowe]

Well done Marc. Only correction is the reflector lights don’t have cornering lights.

 

[RSRowe]

Ideas for improvement anyone?

Unfortunately they just are a bit poor regardless of bulb.
I fitted 55w HIDs to mine, which were a vast improvement, but still pretty terrible. Also obviously rather illegal.