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Old Jun 3rd, 2020, 01:27   #11
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Hi Andy.

I understand what your saying and appreciate your comment. But my car has passed MOT every time. My Lights have never come into fault. Also, i've notified my insurance company aka FootmanJames that I've upgraded my lamps too xenons.

So i believe my car is legal. Also, i can't give a toss about the "cos its cool innit" As my intentions were for better light output which i achieved.
no your car is NOT legal, end of that
as for the "better light output" way to go,, fit illegal mods , risk blinding/dazzling oncoming traffic ,,

so NO you DO NOT UNDERSTAND the comment,, and Clearly have NO intention of abiding by the law,
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Old Jun 3rd, 2020, 02:10   #12
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Just because a MOT tester passed it, doesnt mean its legal, its all laid out in the MOT tester manual you can download, even then it can pass and still not be legal. The same goes with all the idiots getting away with having loud exhausts that i wish they would clamp down on. A proper MOT tester should fail every last one of them, but dont. Esp motorcycles, they turn a blind eye.

If you wanna do it legally read here.
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...-hid-headlamps
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-...f-01aa75ed71a1
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-...a1/language-en

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Old Jun 21st, 2020, 01:43   #13
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Just my penny thought here.

Why dont you get a Xenon kit instead? I cant see how the Led lamps would emit enough light on the road? But I bought a 55w Xenon kit 5000k and it's amazing. No warning lights nothing! Obviously make sure you get a cambus error kit. But yea that all
Well, I have tried almost every bulb/xenon/led aftermarket that is probably possible to buy for myself and on various peoples cars. Modern LED's are far better than xenons in some ways and indeed I find they put a crisper light on the road. They don't suffer warm up time issues and undoubtedly are simpler and less likely to fail prematurely than moat aftermarket xenon-hid lamps. I have in my c30 phillops led's from halfrauds and highly rage them above any others I've used. The other hid/xenon issues aside from teh ballast buggering up is the heat they produce. It is capable of melting the plastic headlamp lens. Led's they do also need adequate cooling some have built in fans, with those I tend to cut the rear lamp cover out nice and snug round them. It allows better airflow and I've not as yet encountered misting up issues due to this. ThePhillips ones have a sort of cooling ribbon, a glorified heat sink which helps to keep the driver cool. So far they have been in the car for easily 6 months now and were in my v50 for a few weeks before it went to the car heaven. Fleabay adverts tend to rate the light output in much exagerated lumens and quote say 28000 lumens output, they combine the both bulbs and then imagine a better sounding number. Philips are around £100 a pair butso far they've outlasted osrams, phillips incandescents, halfrauds own and piaa bulbs. And undoubtably give a better crisper light than any of the forementiomed.
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Can you post a picture of the beam pattern against a wall. Every single LED at I've seen has had terrible cut off with light where it isn't meant to be.
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Can you post a picture of the beam pattern against a wall. Every single LED at I've seen has had terrible cut off with light where it isn't meant to be.
Yes, I can do that. Will be later on in the week though. but it does have a nice proper clean cut off line.
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Just because a MOT tester passed it, doesnt mean its legal, its all laid out in the MOT tester manual you can download, even then it can pass and still not be legal. The same goes with all the idiots getting away with having loud exhausts that i wish they would clamp down on. A proper MOT tester should fail every last one of them, but dont. Esp motorcycles, they turn a blind eye.

If you wanna do it legally read here.
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...-hid-headlamps
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-...f-01aa75ed71a1
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-...a1/language-en
Idiots with loud exhausts.... couldn't agree more. A 1.1 litre shopping cart with the traditional tunnell sized exhaust makes them
Sound utter crap, does nothing for the performance other than probably lower it slightly unless of course they've had it all properly mapped etc. Some exhausts are louder than oem but that's due to their design and intended purpose of performance. Noting performance does not always equate to outright speed! The ones that really infuriate me into almost paroxysms of utter rage are the 45-50 mph brigade. Or the sat in outside lane brigade at less than the speed limit. It's been proven repeatedly these utter reprehensible horrible creatures are the catalyst for causing accidents borne out of frustration.
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Old Jun 22nd, 2020, 15:06   #17
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I miss many things about my C70 but the dreadful headlights really aren't one of them.

I tried some Twenty20 LED bulbs from ABD and they were dreadful, worse than uprated halogens with an odd colour tint to boot. They went back.

I then got a HID kit but being a know it all I just wired it directly into the cars harness. I wasn't aware of the low frequency PWM issues with these cars and it destroyed the dipped headlight drive from the CEM and cooked the headlight hardness on the nearside. Now I only have one headlight, bugger...

I then fitted a HID harness driven from a relay triggererd from the OS headlight. I had a headlight warning, of course, but the performance was finally acceptable. Went through a couple of relays (Chinese crap) and used a relay with a diode to try and stop and back current from destroying my one working headlight drive.

So a HID kit works, but for the love of god use a relay kit and DO NOT drive it directly from the cars loom. Those expensive Phillips H7 LEDs look worth a go too, if the vendor has a good returns policy. I'm not sure what impact the 80Hz PWM system would have on an LED and it's driver circuitry.
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Old Jun 23rd, 2020, 08:14   #18
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LED technology has come very far there past few years, right to the point to render old halogen lights obsolete . You MUST have projector headlamps otherwise you'll be blinding everybody down the road. I recommend AUXBEAM S2 Series H7 bulbs.
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