boertje
Veteran Member
Well my HID OEM E-codes have been installed. Now I understand the hype about the HID. Dang...and there was light! Now i can see to the right and to the left and now i will be able to see the deer that is about to run into me haha. The cut off is well defined. Took pics of the install process and the wiring I had to chance and the harness i had to fabricate to make it work on my 01 bug. All splices were soldered. When I fired them up, they worked perfectly. Then I hit the brights. Great, they worked. Then I switched to low. The left went to low but the right stayed on high. Then I remembered others making the comment that the right high beam line has a slight current on it and that it is enough to keep the solenoid active. I used a 25ohm 10watt wire wound ceramic resistor from the high beam line to ground. Yeah I know it's over kill but it was what I had on hand...besides, that one will never burn out. Now works perfectly. Even connected the city lights by tapping into the side marker lights. Also created the line to hook up the leveler motors at some future date.
Now that my halogens are freed up, we can pop them into my buddy's 02 bug and retro fit the FX-R into his. Then we will take pics of before, after and FX-R vs OEM bixenon lights.
Should be interesting.
Now that my halogens are freed up, we can pop them into my buddy's 02 bug and retro fit the FX-R into his. Then we will take pics of before, after and FX-R vs OEM bixenon lights.
Should be interesting.
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