What lights to go for?

[Richy200]

Right well reading up and seeing people recomend piaa I'm going to change the bulbs over to piaa ones. Just unsure which ones to go for:

1: http://www.piaaonline.co.uk/product/157-49/PIAA-H7-Type-Chrome-Mirror-White-H361-H361

2: http://www.piaaonline.co.uk/product/164-50/PIAA-Bulb-Extreme-White-Plus-H7-Type-HE309-HE309

I think 1 will look better when the headlight is off as it is as it says 'mirrored' but think 2 may give better light output? Don't want to see blue tips when the lights are off though.... They are going into standard 200 lights by the way.

 

[Ed...]

non of the above. . . they go out and flicker my mate had them on his fiesta not very good.

 

[dotty]

lol some geezer on reno sport forum was bonking these

looks like 50 quid spent then lol

 

[BenW]

Do you have reflector or projector headlamps on your car?

If projector then you could get a HID kit for the same price

 

[Richy200]

Reflector... Knew I should of spec'd projectors!

 

[BenW]

You could still get a HID kit but the beam pattern will probably be horrible and a possible MOT fail

 

[Richy200]

I heard it's a bumper off jump for that and I don't want to take the bumper off a brand new car

 

[BenW]

Yep, bumper off.

It's not exactly easy to just change for normal bulbs from what I remember. The dealer will take the bumper off if you take it into them for a new headlight bulb

 

[Maz]

I think im going to leave the fried eggs on mine.

 

[Richy200]

They are going Friday afternoon! Lol

 

[BenW]

Fried eggs are a dodle to change if theyre anything like the 197. Just the headlights and sidelights that are a bitch

 

[SCM4766]

They are going Friday afternoon! Lol

You dont have to take the bumper off, I have just had a philips hid xenon kit fitted, the garage I took it to did not take off the bumper, it took 2 hours to fit on a RS200.

 

[Richy200]

Where done that?

 

[ryan197]

arent the standard light H1 if i remember and projector being H7.

 

[BenW]

Other way round

Halogen is H7
Projector is H1

 

[Maz]

Are you doing it yourself Rich ?

 

[Richy200]

Swapping the indicator bulbs yeah We'll see about the headlights and sidelights

 

[Greg200]

You dont have to take the bumper off, I have just had a philips hid xenon kit fitted, the garage I took it to did not take off the bumper, it took 2 hours to fit on a RS200.

I'll second this, I fitted hid's to the standard 200 lights, without taking the bumper off. There was a thread a while back.

 

[SCM4766]

Where done that?

My kit was fitted at a garage called Autostreet in Enfield North London, they done the passenger side first, took off the air trumpet and both battery top covers, the hardest part and the bit that took the longest was removing and putting back the clip that holds the bulb in, the drivers side they removed the filler neck for the washer bottle which just pulls off, took 2 hours to do whilst I watched them do it

 

[D4VPC]

How much did the charge?