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D3 - Lights Headlights, xenons, foglights. Everything outside the car that glows |
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Hello, I took my headlights out and found the reflector bowls are no longer reflective. They are a dull matt beige. Our bi-xenons are Hella Gen4 and are renowned for this problem. Utter cheap and nasty garbage unfortunately.
Mine looked exactly like the ones here... at ~3:57 https://youtu.be/4ImcKD5SByw?t=238 Not sure what it would take to get our German crap out and replace with decent chinese parttern parts There is enough room for it to withdraw from behind but not sure if all the screws are at the front and hidden. I hadn't seen this video until I had put my own lights back. Last edited by snapdragon; 30th January 2019 at 11:50 AM. |
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Might invest in a set of the one's linked to on xenonbulbs anyway. Would it be okay to just change one bulb so I can see the difference between old and new (won't be driving on the road, just a driveway check, covering each bulb in turn)?
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Most Audi bi-xenons of the generations I see have a separate halogen bulb for main beam as well as the xenon bulb with the hood over it. That's why you have nice white dipped beam and yellow main beam as it turns the halogen on as well.
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My D2 A8 has Xenons rather than Xenon pluses and I would say that white dipped beam and a more yellowy main beam (which on mine is just halogen) describes what mine are like. . . I prefer the halogen main beam and the light it puts out to the full bi-xenons on the D3's as it feels like the main beam is better on the single xenons. . . perhaps the D3 headlights just get worse more quickly!
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Ironically my A6 bi-xenons are better than any D2 headlight |
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Last edited by snapdragon; 23rd April 2020 at 08:18 AM. |
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