Like everything land Rover, they can be made to fit........Quote:
Originally Posted by justmee1965
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There are several in the UK but I've not had the guts to "carve up" my own yet!
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Like everything land Rover, they can be made to fit........Quote:
Originally Posted by justmee1965
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There are several in the UK but I've not had the guts to "carve up" my own yet!
'Cos a brighter halogen-type light does'nt attract the same attention from the Old Bill that a HID does. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Landover
Are you sure ? - Narva have released a "+ 100 " headlight bulb which carries the 'E' approval mark....
World's First PLUS 100 Globe Now Available in Australasia - Narva
Glad you've taken the time & effort to align your lights... Pity that 99% of other selfish idiots don't.!
Better visibility ?- Hmm, I'd question that. - how do you gauge the HID's as having superior brightness? - By how bright the road is ? Or what's on the road... or how BRIGHT those green freeway signs are, - when you're on low beam...
3500K HID's will look (colour-wise) similar-ish to bright halogens, 4500 will appear 'OMO-white' though much of that is because the colour is reflected more effectively by the road surface, and therefore looks brighter...
At 5000 to 6000 the HID efficiency (lumen output) is dropping sharply, but once again the excessive blueness fools the yobbos .
My own experience with 4500K in my Crown, 3500 in the low and 5000 in the highs of our Mazda confirm the above. - The 4500 H4 dipping bulbs are sitting in my shed gathering dust due to lousy alignment of the mechanism. - And the glare they produced.
Unless you've put your LR headlights on relays, - or comparing with your Jap car,,,, then you've never seen good halogen bulbs !:p
Not meaning to be nasty... but my (son's) Paj and Classsic have Narva +50's in them, and the Classic does not have the better night-lighting, despite being the newer ones...:eek:
Anyway, regardless of my waffles, I think those funny, later-model compound headlights would look pretty sexy in a Disco. :p
Hi yes you can, this is a great guide on how to do it. I will be doing mine.
It is not mine I found it on another site some time ago but never saved the link but I did save the how to, so here it is.
Cheers Peter
exactly what i was looking for will be doing the upgrade in the next couple of weeks just waiting now for my new headlights to arrive
the big issue with changing from Halogen to HID is the focal point of the globe. HID globe has a very different focal point and that is why retrofits throw massive levels of light/glare above the low beam cutoff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Landover
I changed our early D2 to the later D2 "pocket" lights (they are not projectors), modified the loom so they ran through relays and fitted Osram +80 globes. Significant difference.
Please let us know how it goes, were did you get your lights from?Quote:
Originally Posted by justmee1965
I am looking for a pair.
Cheers Peter
Yes the D2 headlights can be made to fit as Discowhite did it on his but also had to be a D2 grill and surrounds on as well.
I would not got the chinese HID..Discowhite did this also and had a failure with the ballasts and lost low beam...had to drive hom on high beam with hhis headlights fully adjusted to point at the floor..
I have traxide upgrade its worth the money been fitted to the car for probably about 4 years now I also have the while bulbs in which makes more of a difference with the traxide upgrade...
I think the upgrade cost me like 80 bux or something extremely easy to fit..I did mine myself (I'm a girl and not electrical minded) and Tim is extrememly helpful
If you really want good lights than maybe a pair of these:
Round LED head lights / lamps : LED Lights, Marker Truck LED Vehicle Lighting Trailers Commercial Lightbars Warning Lights Land Rover
They are oh so 'spensive but if I had the money I'd go for the 8700 with a RDX kit to fit the Disco. (RDX Headlamp Surrounds LandRover Discovery 200Tdi NEW | eBay)
ps. DLS (dt101) on UK ebay has the headlamp conversion kit that you are looking for, with the D2 lights, £448 + P&P.
//Johan
Do you or anyone else know where you can get the grill that they have in the photo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemur
And are these LED lights legal in Australia?
Sorry, don't know if they are AUS legal. They are DOT (US) and E-mark (EU) approved and therefor legal in US and EU, so it might be. Maybe there is a Kenworth dealer that might know? Or some other truck-shop. I guess they are primarily for trucks as of yet, due to the price. But I've seen 'em installed in J**ps with a light pattern that is unbelievable.:eek:
What grill did you refer to? The one in the RDX, with the inner lights? Think it's a Disco 1 200 but not shure, been looking for it until I found out it might be illegal in Sweden. (Lights being to narrow.) My focus changed to get a saudi grill instead. Found one, won the auction but the guy wouldn't ship it. :mad:
Johan