R36 headlights

[DJC]

Can anyone who has an R36 give feedback as to the quality of the HID lights?

Cheers

[Maverick]

Can anyone who has an R36 give feedback as to the quality of the HID lights?

What do you mean by quality? Build quality? Projector quality? Throw quality? ????

[DJC]

Interested in the quality and throw of the light they produce on low and high beam. I have seen some HID lights and they are rather average, and I have seen some that are just brilliant!

Just wondering what to expect?

[Rocket36]

I don't know how to explain them other than "JUST BRILLIANT".

I personally love them...

[Pana]

I can't fault them either I also love how they follow the steering input to help with cornering...

[DJC]

I don't know how to explain them other than "JUST BRILLIANT".

I personally love them...

Great! So I shouldn't be disappointed then

[Caddyman]

Sorry to dissappoint you here, but I find them rather average, I used to have a 2006 BF Fairmont Ghia, which I put 100 watt bulbs in both low and high beam, absolutely amazing lights and is the biggest dissapointment of my R36.... funny thing is that it was the only really good thing about the Ford..!

Yes, following the steering is cool and of good use on windy roads, but the depth of light is appauling, I also find that there is absolutely no light at all projected above the cut off on low beam so if you are going through a dip you cannot see anything further on, maybe I am going too fast??

Matthew

[Rocket36]

100Watt in low beam? EEEK!!! Glad you were never driving towards me!

The HIDs in the R36 on low beam are better than high beam on my three previous cars (two VE Holden Calais' and one VE HSV Clubsport).

[DJC]

I have been in a HSV Adventra and I don't know what the story was with the lights in that but they were truly amazing.

I think that was on low beam and with the foglamps on. It was a while ago now.

[Maverick]

Sorry to dissappoint you here, but I find them rather average, I used to have a 2006 BF Fairmont Ghia, which I put 100 watt bulbs in both low and high beam, absolutely amazing lights and is the biggest dissapointment of my R36.... funny thing is that it was the only really good thing about the Ford..!

Thanks for blinding everyone with your illegal headlights. How is your illegal headlight modification a fair comparison to legal headlights?

The Bi-Xenons on the R36 would outperform your illegal headlights easily, it's easy to confuse having lots of light scattering around with having good headlights.

Yes, following the steering is cool and of good use on windy roads, but the depth of light is appauling, I also find that there is absolutely no light at all projected above the cut off on low beam so if you are going through a dip you cannot see anything further on, maybe I am going too fast??

There is a reason for the lack of light above the cut off point! You have projector lenses and this is to prevent you doing what you did in your Falcon and that's blind oncoming traffic .

[Cro]

Of course 100w globes will beat the xenons, the difference is that the xenons are legal. I'm suprised that you didn't get done, cause an accident or yellow out your reflectors due to the exess heat....

Back on topic, the xenons are better for low&high beam than any halogen standard setup I have driven (including the Ba/bf falcons which have fantastic output). They are not the best xenons I have seen but I also didn't spend 150k+ on the car.

Comming from the light output i was used to in my old ba falcon which had 6x 55w+ 50% and 2x 100w lightforce spotties when on highbeam I wish the xenons had about 200m more reach. Good compromise though, no more need for ugly bars and lights on the front of such a nice car.

[DJC]

So general opinion is they are pretty damn good by the sound of it

[Rocket36]

Thanks for blinding everyone with your illegal headlights. How is your illegal headlight modification a fair comparison to legal headlights?

The Bi-Xenons on the R36 would outperform your illegal headlights easily, it's easy to confuse having lots of light scattering around with having good headlights.



There is a reason for the lack of light above the cut off point! You have projector lenses and this is to prevent you doing what you did in your Falcon and that's blind oncoming traffic .

LMAO! Great post... I can't believe it - I've agreed with you twice in 2 minutes. Hahaha!

Scattered light from reflector headlights, even if brighter is nowhere near as good as self leveling projector HID lights.

[Caddyman]

Thanks for blinding everyone with your illegal headlights. How is your illegal headlight modification a fair comparison to legal headlights?

The Bi-Xenons on the R36 would outperform your illegal headlights easily, it's easy to confuse having lots of light scattering around with having good headlights.



There is a reason for the lack of light above the cut off point! You have projector lenses and this is to prevent you doing what you did in your Falcon and that's blind oncoming traffic .

OK my bad, what I meant to say was that I put 55/100w bulbs in the outer (main lights) so when on high beam it had 4 x 100W lights, on low beam it was still the 55W as per standard, I was not for a moment talking about low beam performance, just high beam.

Seems there is a lot of people that want to jump on others for doing something "illegal, wrong, stupid" etc????

As far as I know you cannot buy 100W low beam globes for exactly that reason, maybe if some of you had thought for a moment you may have realised this?

Matthew

[Maverick]

OK my bad, what I meant to say was that I put 55/100w bulbs in the outer (main lights) so when on high beam it had 4 x 100W lights, on low beam it was still the 55W as per standard, I was not for a moment talking about low beam performance, just high beam.

Seems there is a lot of people that want to jump on others for doing something "illegal, wrong, stupid" etc????

Maybe because a lot of people are sick of being blinded on the road.

As far as I know you cannot buy 100W low beam globes for exactly that reason, maybe if some of you had thought for a moment you may have realised this?

You can purchase them off the shelf the auto stores.

Seeing as you're talking about high beam performance you can assist the bi-xenons by Vagcoming the high beam halogens to operate when you have high beams on.