Installation of HID for my lows, highs, and fogs

[corradog60stage4 0]

some members was asking me how hard is it to install and if I have them installed in my ride as well.

 

So let the pics speak for themselves as I have three kit. Yes 6 ballasts and 6 HID capsules installed in my project Corrado. If you want the stealth look it will take more time to install the ballasts away from sight.

 

installation of 4 ballasts first

checking for clearance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

three igniters per side

 

all that spaghetti going through this hole

 

 

individual fuses for each HID light

loomed the wires

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they are going into my euros.

 

 

HID foglight installation

 

 

 

 

today i was playing with my HID setup and remembered some members asking me for pics of the lights on.

 

so here are some pics but unfortunately they are not taken at night.

 

they are taken inside the garage and beam is on the garage door.

 

the high beams are a bit too blue for me so I will be changing them out. I'm not a fanatic in tinted blue lights as they look more rice than nice.

 

 

 

 

After getting all the ballasts, igniters, etc... installed into my c. The high beams wires are not long enough to connect them to the igniters.

It would be a big job to relocated them so I thought about it and came up with HID Amp connector extension.

some people would wonder what the hell is this guy talking about? There is nothing on the market for these and because of my situation make a pair of these would save me time and work just the same. Innovation works!!!!

 

So here are some pics because I know all of you love my pics.

 

Parts you need:

 

AMP connectors.

consists of male and female nylon connectors, male and female metal terminals, silicone seals, locks, etc... of course you need TV-20 silicone wires.

how it should look once finished

 

strip and leave about 5 mm of wire exposed

pass the silicone seals in first and note direction.

female terminal with silicone wire position before crimping

after it is crimped

push terminal through connector

do the same for the male terminal

pass it though and use locks to secure in place

finished product

you can see each wire has a different connector as this wire is used to extend only.

 

here it is now in use

 

lights on

[Jim Bowen 1]

very good work :!

 

impressive 8)

 

i'm always double checking my lights are actually on :lol: they that bad

 

how much has this cost in total, for the parts?

[corradog60stage4 0]

very good work :!

 

impressive 8)

 

i'm always double checking my lights are actually on :lol: they that bad

 

how much has this cost in total, for the parts?

 

 

Some would say overkill but for me I want to see as much as possible when driving at night.

 

Wait a minute, actually I don;t drive much at night LOL!!

[Mystic Rado 0]

I'd be really interested to see what sort of beam pattern you get with your lows - I'm guessing, as you refer to your lights as 'Euros' that you're in the States, but using European-spec headlights. The problem I had when I fitted an HID conversion - one of the hids4u.co.uk ones - which is very well regarded, was that the beam pattern was simply awful, lots of light all over the place, but mostly in the wrong place. I reckon it's down to the design of the reflector and, in particular, the metal shield that sits in front of the H4 bulb in the main headlight compartment. Just from your garage door shots, it looks like the cut-off is pretty flaky, viz, there's a fair bit of light above the cut-off.

 

I'm just about to rip the whole thing out and go back to halogen... :(

 

Longer term I'm going to stick some OE HID projectors in a Corrado headlight, getting it done proper should give me summat to do over winter :-)

[coolrado 0]

I'd be really interested to see what sort of beam pattern you get with your lows - I'm guessing, as you refer to your lights as 'Euros' that you're in the States, but using European-spec headlights. The problem I had when I fitted an HID conversion - one of the hids4u.co.uk ones - which is very well regarded, was that the beam pattern was simply awful, lots of light all over the place, but mostly in the wrong place. I reckon it's down to the design of the reflector and, in particular, the metal shield that sits in front of the H4 bulb in the main headlight compartment. Just from your garage door shots, it looks like the cut-off is pretty flaky, viz, there's a fair bit of light above the cut-off.

 

I'm just about to rip the whole thing out and go back to halogen... :(

 

Longer term I'm going to stick some OE HID projectors in a Corrado headlight, getting it done proper should give me summat to do over winter :-)

will you be looking to sell the HID kit when you remove it? if so i might be interested.

[Mystic Rado 0]

will you be looking to sell the HID kit when you remove it? if so i might be interested.

 

Possibly, I'm going to stick it in my Mk 2 GiT and see if it works better with a more conventional headlight - if it does I might hang on to it. If not, it's for the chop. It's the H4 bixenon kit btw, but like I said, it doesn't seem to suit the Corrado headlight. I'll PM you if I decide to flog it.

[coolrado 0]

cheers :thumb right:

[corradog60stage4 0]

will you be looking to sell the HID kit when you remove it? if so i might be interested.

 

Possibly, I'm going to stick it in my Mk 2 GiT and see if it works better with a more conventional headlight - if it does I might hang on to it. If not, it's for the chop. It's the H4 bixenon kit btw, but like I said, it doesn't seem to suit the Corrado headlight. I'll PM you if I decide to flog it.

 

 

well i guess it depends on what kind of bi xenon design you have. they have some with the bulb attached to a magnetic solenoid which retracts when the highs are applied. they hoave some the tilt on an angle when the highs are applied and they have some that are stationary but with an added halogen bulb right beside.

the one I have is made by McCulloch one of the first few companies that were manufacturing HID when they first appeared on the market. They have a stationary bulb with a moving reflector design.

As for cutoff i say it is not perfect as my sister's MK4 jetta with projectors but not that bad as with using NA housing.

 

Let me see if I can find some pics of my sister's cutoff for a visual.

 

here is how my sister's jetta looks with 6000K McCulloch HID installed

 

before

 

 

 

 

after

 

 

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

 

WITH PROJECTORS

 

Yes I got Helix projectors with fog lights and put H1 5300K HID lows and H3 3000K HID fogs.

 

these are the lights

 

it has a separate low beam, high beam and fog light as well.

 

first thing was to prepare the HID bulb installation for the low beams and fog lights. She wanted the high beams to be HID as well but I convinced her it was OVERKILL and you don;t need it.

picture of the fog light

H3 bulb comparison

H1 bulb comparison

H3's new home

H1's new home

 

 

drilling hole into the boot

connecting the wires for the ballasts

 

heat shrink

 

 

HID bulb wires

 

 

one side installed

projector vs stock

stock

 

I had to remove the bumper to get at these two torx screws

remove the top two torx screws

projector for driver's side installed

screw back these two torxs

 

piggy backed the ballasts (one for the yellow fog HID 3000K and the other for the low beam 5300K

 

 

nothing was adjusted right out of the box.

 

low and fogs

 

[corradog60stage4 0]

BTW camera was set with no flash and the lights are much brighter than the actual picture.

Also it was raining.

 

 

 

 

[Mystic Rado 0]

will you be looking to sell the HID kit when you remove it? if so i might be interested.

 

Possibly, I'm going to stick it in my Mk 2 GiT and see if it works better with a more conventional headlight - if it does I might hang on to it. If not, it's for the chop. It's the H4 bixenon kit btw, but like I said, it doesn't seem to suit the Corrado headlight. I'll PM you if I decide to flog it.

 

Just for info, I took the hids4u.co.uk bixenon H4 HID kit out of my 'rado and out of interest, installed it in my Mk2 Golf GTi. It was - and I don't think this is too much of an exageration - absolute pants in the Corrado headlights. Awful beam pattern, light all over the place etc, just very nasty with big dark patches where there should have been light and light where there should have been no light.

 

The hids4u kit gets good reviews from a lot of people and seems pretty decent, the bulb uses a solenoid which moves the light capsule when you select high beam putting it in the right place for full on light etc, anyway... I've found, in the more conventional headlights on my Golf, the kit actually gives very decent results, similar to the relayed 90/100 watt halogens I normally use, but with a whiter light. The cut-off is pretty much the same as the halogen and I've not been flashed yet by anyone.

 

I'm no headlamp expert, but I don't think the hids4u kit, which has a very well shielded bulb - Caspar-type shield with a big end cap for anyone interested - suits the Corrado's headlight optics, while it clearly works decently enough in the more conventional round headlight on the Golf. I've mailed Ian at hids4u and suggested that his kit doesn't suit the Corrado and he shouldn't sell it to to Corrado owners in future. I can't really comment on other kits except to say that generally HID in halogen reflectors isn't known for being a great solution despite my GTi results.

 

It's okay on the Golf, but I'm not sure it's any better than my relayed halogens and I actually prefer driving with the yellower halogen light, especially on main where I now have a mix of halogen 100-watt spots and HID mains, which is a bit weird. I'll leave it in for a while and see what I think longer term. Don't know whether it would get through MoT either, seems ambiguous feedback on that front.

 

Anyway, just my tuppence worth. Relayed higher rated halogens on the Corrado now and much, much happier :-)

[corradog60stage4 0]

would you happen to have pics of the hid capsules? pics of the beam on corrado? beam on your GTI?

just curious since you make them sound very bad.

[Mystic Rado 0]

would you happen to have pics of the hid capsules? pics of the beam on corrado? beam on your GTI?

just curious since you make them sound very bad.

 

There are some pics of the kit on the hids4u.co.uk web site - here.

 

 

 

I don't have any beam pics, but trust me, the kit was dreadful in the 'rado - I guess taking the end cap off the shield might have helped btw.

[corradog60stage4 0]

would you happen to have pics of the hid capsules? pics of the beam on corrado? beam on your GTI?

just curious since you make them sound very bad.

 

There are some pics of the kit on the hids4u.co.uk web site - here.

 

 

 

I don't have any beam pics, but trust me, the kit was dreadful in the 'rado - I guess taking the end cap off the shield might have helped btw.

 

your bulb looks familiar to a 6000K bi-xenon kit I tried on my corrado but was badly designed and made and like you said the cutoff was really bad. At the end the kit went to my daily driven civic now. You are right about removing the the entire cap off like I did on the civic to make the beam pattern a bit better.

This kit is really shit and the moving hid capsule does not really simulate the high beams correctly.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mystic Rado 0]

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your bulb looks familiar to a 6000K bi-xenon kit I tried on my corrado but was badly designed and made and like you said the cutoff was really bad. At the end the kit went to my daily driven civic now. You are right about removing the the entire cap off like I did on the civic to make the beam pattern a bit better.

This kit is really **** and the moving hid capsule does not really simulate the high beams correctly.

 

Yeah, the high beam ain't great even in the GTi, where otherwise, to be fair it works pretty well - twin 100-watt spots in the driving lights anyway, so it's not a big issue. Fwiw, I've got a pair of E46 HID projectors which I'm going to retrofit into some spare headlights. The real problem with that is the headlight glass, I'm going to try it with the stock fluted lenses and see how things look and then take it from there. From what I can tell, it's near impossible to smooth headlight glass, so I'm looking at either getting new lenses fabricated from Lexan sheet or similar or, possibly, cut the stock glass and insert a smooth area in front of the projector. One day, when I have some spare time.... :?

[corradog60stage4 0]

engineering wise McCulloch gets my vote for their Bi-Xenon kit