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S80 '06-'16 / V70 & XC70 '07-'16 General Forum for the P3-platform S80 and 70-series models |
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Feb 17th, 2020, 10:23 | #11 | |
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Feb 17th, 2020, 18:18 | #12 | |
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I do agree with you though that carefully installed HID upgrades with satisfactory beam pattern make for a much safer car than those with weak halogen lamps.
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Feb 18th, 2020, 14:39 | #13 | |
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I briefly had an HID kit in my 2003 Honda Accord, and the projector headlamp housing provided a cut-off at the correct level, and it wasn't dazzling to oncoming drivers. However, the distribution of light under that cut-off was completely wrong. Too much light hit the ground close to the car, and it was very uneven, including shadows of the HID capsule return wire (which would noticeably vibrate over bumps). Because of the very bright light close to the car it caused the eye to adjust to deal with that and so distance vision (below and above cut-off) was actually worse with the HID kit than with a decent set of upgrade halogens. In the case of the V70, the halogen headlamps are of the reflector type and will never get a satisfactory cut-off pattern with any non-halogen bulb. The OP was at least trying to take the correct approach by replacing the entire housing with the Xenon projector type housing. I can also understand the desire - I recently used our work pool car (a 2016 facelift V60 D4) and the headlamps were utterly dire. |
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Feb 18th, 2020, 14:56 | #14 |
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I just need to say that my experience was with a non Volvo and I was lucky that the original projector headlight housings coped well with the HID conversion and I could only discover that by installing it and seeing how it worked.
My reason for posting was merely to say that if you consider the existing headlight setup to be a safety hazard, despite all the R&D that Volvo should have put into designing it, you might try uprating the lights. On the matter of HID in reflector housings, I have seen HID kits being sold as suitable for reflector housings. I think they have internal reflector units on the bulbs but I had no need of them as I already had projector housings.
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