Disco 4 Aftermarket Xenon Lights installation

[mayank_s12]

I am currently looking to install aftermarket xenon lights in my Disco 4 MY13, because of my impatience I missed on the factory option.
Can someone suggest any place in Sydney to get it done..

cheers

[Torero22]

Do you want them to be legal ???

To be legal they need to be self leveling, It could be very expensive !!!

I am looking at putting some spottys to get around the problem.

Any advice you have to share would be appreciated.

Regards
Tor

[mayank_s12]

Tor,

I checked before with ARB for getting the LED spot lights the issue is mounting points, either have to drill in the bumper or get a bull bar/nudge bar. There are a couple of options that are not very secure ( which ARB won't recommend considering the lights cost around $1500 bucks)

cheers

[101RRS]

Tor you need to understand your car a bit more - the car is self leveling so meets this requirement - the optional Bi Xenons in the D3/D4/RRS are not self leveling as the car does this.

To the original question - are you intending to source original Bi-xenons from somewhere or just put in HIDs in the Halogen projector??

If the later, there is the legality question and the D4 does tick all the boxes except for maybe the ADR compliance on the housings for HIDs rather than Halogens.

I have put in HIDs in my low beam projector and the beam and cutoff is exactly the same as the halogen.

If you do go this route, unlike the genuine Bi-Xenons you will not have HID hi beam. Your high beam will be provided be the Halogen Hi Beam even though your low beam is HID. The globe is H7 and there is no Hi/Lo beam option for these globes.

Any decent auto electrician could do the conversion but some may not want to do it because of the legality argument. Also - do not go above 4300K in colour as this matches the originals and is the best colour to drive with.

If you want the full Bi-Xenon experience I would be looking to the UK to get a second hand set and have them fitted and turned on (not sure this is needed) at the dealer.

Cheers

Garry

[Torero22]

Tor you need to understand your car a bit more - the car is self leveling so meets this requirement - the optional Bi Xenons in the D3/D4/RRS are not self leveling as the car does this.

Cheers

Garry

Thanks Garry, please do educate me - I agree that I need more knowledge on the beast.

Only reason that I said what I said, was that is what I was told by TJM. A lot they know about the Disc 4 - hey.

How does it do the headlight leveling ??

Are you saying the vehicle has sensors and uses the air suspension to level the whole car !!!! WOW if that is true I am blown away !!
But if so - why would it self level on an SE ? what other reason would the leveling be needed for, other than for the Xeon headlights ?

Always willing to learn, Master Garry, I am just a padwan ! (Star Wars - for those uneducated in our group)

Cheers
Tor

[mayank_s12]

I was looking at getting the HID's in the current housing.

I will look at the second hand option from UK as well and see the cost benefits..

Cheers

[SBD4]

Thanks Garry, please do educate me - I agree that I need more knowledge on the beast.

Only reason that I said what I said, was that is what I was told by TJM. A lot they know about the Disc 4 - hey.

How does it do the headlight leveling ??

Are you saying the vehicle has sensors and uses the air suspension to level the whole car !!!! WOW if that is true I am blown away !!
But if so - why would it self level on an SE ? what other reason would the leveling be needed for, other than for the Xeon headlights ?

Always willing to learn, Master Garry, I am just a padwan ! (Star Wars - for those uneducated in our group)

Cheers
Tor

you got it!

[jonesy63]

There's one more requirement for HID lights on cars in Australia, in addition to self-leveling... that is, they need to have washers.

For all the hassle involved - it would be easier to pick up the bi-xenon lights and washers from a wrecker or UK. Then install and have Car Configuration File (CCF) updated to enable them.

[Epic pooh]

Tor - these vehicles are always trying to level themselves which is why they fart when parked, move around discernibly from time to time when pulling up on not level surfaces and can drive people who are not familiar with them nuts trying to jack them up ! One of the reasons the rear raises before the front is to do with not blinding oncoming drivers with the Headlights when raising from height to height.

I understood you're also supposed to have headlight washers with HIDs, don't know if non-HID equipped vehicles have this ?

[101RRS]

How does it do the headlight leveling ??

Are you saying the vehicle has sensors and uses the air suspension to level the whole car !!!! WOW if that is true I am blown away !!

Maybe you need to read your handbook .

Garry