Just payed £20.00 including VAT + Delivery for:
* Xenon H7 Headlight bulb x 2 (NEW)
* Xenon Sidelight bulb x 2 (NEW)
They are for 2000 Polo 6N2, this a good price or did he see me coming?
Phill
Xenon Front Bulb Pricing
Its ok, H7's are for some reason expensive anyway. Xenon is just another type of halogen that they use, they are supposed to burn brighter than standard halogens, I couldn't see any difference with them myself.
But here's a mod that anyone could try (if you don't have HIDS). If you take the back off the headlight on one side, identify the H7 +ve wire. Measure it with a meter and you will find its about 12.4 V, I found the battery was about 13.8V. So hmm, I thought, how about conneting a wire between battery +ve and the bulb (A mod I did on my old Mk3). So I found a thick wire and when you connect it the bulb appear much brighter, and visibly whiter. It turns out that the crappy spindly wiring that goes from the battery - via the switch - via fuses and - via the wiring loom is such a long way that the losses are quite large. So I added a relay and a thicker feed. It was considerably better. And perfectly legal.
..... Then I ripped the whole lot out and stuffed a GTi headlight system in including the self-levelling. Which is obviously much better.
But here's a mod that anyone could try (if you don't have HIDS). If you take the back off the headlight on one side, identify the H7 +ve wire. Measure it with a meter and you will find its about 12.4 V, I found the battery was about 13.8V. So hmm, I thought, how about conneting a wire between battery +ve and the bulb (A mod I did on my old Mk3). So I found a thick wire and when you connect it the bulb appear much brighter, and visibly whiter. It turns out that the crappy spindly wiring that goes from the battery - via the switch - via fuses and - via the wiring loom is such a long way that the losses are quite large. So I added a relay and a thicker feed. It was considerably better. And perfectly legal.
..... Then I ripped the whole lot out and stuffed a GTi headlight system in including the self-levelling. Which is obviously much better.
. Im used to the standard crappy bulbs so these will do just fine for now. My front end is much smarter now. Lower Gti Splitter, Xenon bulbs all round, spot lights, gti grills all round and crystal side repeaters -
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Re: Xenon Front Bulb Pricing
They're not actual Xenon's but just halogen bulbs that will have a brighter whiter light...... Don't forget that xenon's need the whole ballast / extra circuitry to work.........polosilver wrote:Just payed £20.00 including VAT + Delivery for:
* Xenon H7 Headlight bulb x 2 (NEW)
* Xenon Sidelight bulb x 2 (NEW)
They are for 2000 Polo 6N2, this a good price or did he see me coming?
Phill
I think an actual xenon bulb costs in the region of £100-£120 from a dealer. (When i bought the car in 2003 dealer quoted £105 + vat)
One thing to be warey of..... Over on the Lexus Owners Forum a few people got some imported "xenon" bulbs that weren't E-stamped and they misted over the plastic headlight covers on the Lexus.... Turned out it was due to the amount of UV light given off by the bulbs. I only mention this cause i know the GTi has plastic headlight lenses but not sure about the other Mk5's.
We have a Lexus IS as well as the Polo GTi and i fitted Phillips Blue vision bulbs in the lexus for side, dip & main beam positions...... Came to around £40 for all six bulbs and with free next day delivery from Power Bulbs. They have a nice look to them that from some angles / distances looks like a xenon bulb. But i still notice the differance as soon as i get back in my car again.
Hope this is of some use to ya...... Those Audi wheels look furkin' kewl by the way....
Cheers
Dave.
