dave walton wrote:
We use HID dive lights and they are absolutely amazing! It would be
great to put them on the cars.
I hate HIDs. Hate hate hate them. I'm sure they're nice to drive
behind, but the glare is much worse for oncoming drivers, or for people
in front of you if their mirrors pick
It's totally the fault of the beam pattern!!!
The morons at DOT think that we should have a big smear of light instead
of a beam focused on the road! Idiots!! And those unfortunate ones like
me living next to them have to get the same shitty lights!
AARRRGG It drives me nuts to
Yeah, I finally found the real answer on http://rallylights.com The problem
is that we have laws from the 50's that mandate a percentage of light that
SHINES UP IN THE AIR! (for un-lit overhead signs).
That explains why one other car that I had and put the E-code (European)
lights on worked
Long gone.
A w210 turbodiesel at that price will not be around long.
Lee
On Sun Oct 16 12:29:47 PDT 2005, Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Not sure how cheap this is, 1998, 155k, $14k
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=189172629
How many electrical gremlins would be
I just got a call from a used car dealer in Maryland who has a '99
300DT. I don't know anything more about it except the asking price
($16K) and the phone number (410.643.6573).
No affiliation, no knowledge, YMMV.
I wasn't looking to spend quite that much on my diesel (but I
eventually will,
126 euros? great price, I just paid $400 usa for a set of 500E lamps
(new) from my dealer, special deal.
For the spare set I'm considering converting to HID by dropping in a
set of HID projectors and clear lens.
See http://2phast.com/500e/default.htm
Unless of course my wife discovers them
The HID's take a few seconds to come up to full brightness. Mercedes
accommodates this delay by using them for the low beams and using
standard xenon's for the high beams and the HID's stay on when you
switch to high beams - or else everything would go dark for a few
seconds. Do the Mercedes low
Also see
http://kamran1860.tripod.com/n_xenon_e.htm
In this case he wired the high to a relay to provide power to the
control unit.
The bi-xenon projector units have one HID bulb, and a solenoid
refector cutoff that
moves depending on if you pick high or low beam. So the high beam
just
Not sure how cheap this is, 1998, 155k, $14k
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=189172629
How many electrical gremlins would be residing in such a car?
