Thread: Discovery 1 headlights

Originally Posted by Landover

Upgraded the H4 bulbs to +30 or +50 ones ? -


Upgrading the brightness of the original globes to a higher value is still illegal anyway so what's the difference............... but these light are so much safer on the road at night than the poor yellow standard lights.

End Rant.

'Cos a brighter halogen-type light does'nt attract the same attention from the Old Bill that a HID does.


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 !
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...

Anyway, regardless of my waffles, I think those funny, later-model compound headlights would look pretty sexy in a Disco.

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

Originally Posted by Landover

Upgraded the H4 bulbs to +30 or +50 ones ? -


Upgrading the brightness of the original globes to a higher value is still illegal anyway so what's the difference. Yes I agree that misaligned lines lights are a great distraction and annoying. I went to a lot of trouble setting mine up so it would not dazzle other drivers. Which I had to do after a lift and larger tyres (Also illegal). Yes they are illegal and so are the many mods we do to our trucks but these light are so much safer on the road at night than the poor yellow standard lights.

End Rant.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by justmee1965

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

Please let us know how it goes, were did you get your lights from?
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

Originally Posted by Lemur

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?
And are these LED lights legal in Australia?