Bi-Xenons with LED running lights - upgrade to non-xenon cars?

[Hail22]

Honestly i love my lights as they are, only comment here to give information the only thing i would change is the colour which i would get in Diamond white which is the brightest yet also safe on other drivers eyes and 100% legal had them on my old Pulsar, fantastic for country driving in pitch black.

[Hail22]

Project: Conversion of Bi-Xenon Unit to HID...possible or not? hmmm

So i have some holiday leave accumilating and was wondering from all the gurus on this forum whether it may be possible removing the Bi-xenon unit (headlight and all internals relating to the globe itself) and replacing it with a Halogen (general headlight) unit/globe.

But first things first...is this possible, also guessing i will need to get an algorythm to fix the error if it decides to pop it's ugly head out on my dash.


So let the think tank begin!

[Corey_R]

*scratches head, confused*

Xenon = HID

Not really sure what you want to do?!

[pologti18t]

LOL. Will be in interesting project if you don't know that bi-xenon is HID.

[Hail22]

Lol my bad, i want to change the globe to halogen/general headlight that the stock GTI gets/TSI...was meant to say that >.< it was early ok! and gti18t, your the only member i really do not like reading replies from as you seem like the resident forum troll.

reason behind it is to get the LED DRL's but obviously not going full conversion with washers etc etc

[broxigar1983]

So you want to got from stock to Xenon? or Xenon to Stock? DIPS ON YOUR XENONS if you want to got to stock head lights, you can take my standard head lights...

[JexL]

he wants to install the Xenon + LED housing but instead put in a halogen globe so that he doesnt need all the extra expensive stuff like washers and the self leveling etc etc. This way you get all the cosmetic benefits of the DRL and projectors but at a lower cost. i have also wondered about this in the past

[broxigar1983]

he wants to install the Xenon + LED housing but instead put in a halogen globe so that he doesnt need all the extra expensive stuff like washers and the self leveling etc etc. This way you get all the cosmetic benefits of the DRL and projectors but at a lower cost. i have also wondered about this in the past

Ah, ok. If I'm not mistaken this has been discussed in one of the other threads, can't change housings as they are totally different and something else. I know this because I also wanted to get the DRLs with normal lights.

[Corey_R]

Agreed. Even more bizare because Hail22 was the last to post in that thread!
Threads merged.

[gavs]

Honestly, you will be better off installing the whole projector light assembly but to make it all work, damn. The looms to the lights are different, you will need to remove your foglight-placed static cornering lights because then you will be exceeding the regulated amount of forward facing lights, there will be a whole lot of cutting / splicing / soldering / heat-shrinking going on.... On top of that you will need to work out something with the levelling of the projector lense because your headlight beam isn't going to be as strong, then re-program the ecu....

To me it would be easier just to do the full Bi-Xenon conversion if it would work but again, the lighting looms are different

Don't get me wrong, it can be done but geez it's a lot of work and I know why you would want to do it but you will need to toss up if all the headaches are worth it.....

[Corey_R]

Yeah... the cost to do this legally is not quite known yet, as no one has ever bothered once they realise what is required. I'd say that you'd need to at least budget $3000 plus labour if you can't do it all yourself. gavs mentioned in a previous post the things that you're going to need (may be more though, considering it hasn't been done and dealers won't do it).

[Hail22]

Just like my ABT upgrade, it took over 6 months to even come to a decision i will research it further there has to be a way around it. However i won't lose sleep as i am just looking to get the bluemotion grill, change my current wheels/or paint them matte black and finally rear hatch spoiler the lights are merely an added bonus if it's easy to achieve so meh xD

So i think i may hit the web when i'm free to see if it's possible if it is i will share it, if you all like >.<

[pologti18t]

it was early ok! and gti18t, your the only member i really do not like reading replies from as you seem like the resident forum troll.

My pleasure