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Rubbish Headlights

#1 James Enwood

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Posted 22 May 2007 - 07:45 PM

I had been driving along the motorway coming back from a car meeting a few weeks ago now, and that was the first time that I had taken my own Ford Puma out at night time, and I have discovered how dim the headlights are any ideas on how to brighten them up.

Are there any headlight bulbs, that are personally highly recommended?

James

This post has been edited by James Enwood: 22 May 2007 - 07:51 PM

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#2 Hansie

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Posted 22 May 2007 - 08:03 PM

Xenon conversion kit

http://www.ford-puma.nl
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#3 phill751

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Posted 24 May 2007 - 10:00 AM

ive got the philips blue vision ones in mine they are much better, not all that cheap tho around Â£20 a bulb and theres 4 in total plus the blue vision side light bulbs which are around Â£4 the pair

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#4 PumaVoodoo

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 12:24 AM

I've got Halfords Ultra Bright bulbs, which IIRC are actually relabelled Osrams, so good quality bulbs. When I bought mine they were on BOGOF, I only have them in the dipped beams because I don't really feel that full beam gets enough use to warrant the money. However, you can get an HID conversion kit from eBay for about Â£70, someone on here has one and recommends it, so I shall most likely get one myself.

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#5 BOK

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 06:50 AM

I replaced my bulbs with new standard ones (shop around BTW as I got a pair for Â£14). The old ones had gone white from the heat which must have affected their performance.

I'll be playing with their aim as soon as I get the chance.

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#6 Cat Daddy

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 07:15 AM

QUOTE (phill751 @ May 24 2007, 10:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

ive got the philips blue vision ones in mine they are much better, not all that cheap tho around Â£20 a bulb and theres 4 in total

WHAT ??? 20 pounds for one bulb ???

can't be, can it ?

I would be happy to organize those bulbs for no more than 8 pounds each, hand-carried to the anniversary meet in July.

with a friendly Puma smile,
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#7 phill751

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 07:22 AM

yeah the philips blue vision one retail at Â£20 each. They cost us more than Â£8 each to buy in at the shop (maybe cause we dont buy in large quantities??) , so if you can get them for Â£8 do it!!

all the others (h1,h7 &h4 are dirt cheap but for some reason the HB3 or 9006 or whatever you want to refer to them as are silly money.

Â£8 is a bargain!

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#8 Dan

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 08:01 AM

I wonder how many people are interested in Xenons as those ones from Hong Kong are only about Â£35 but with about Â£35 shipping. If a few people were interested I'm sure the price would come down to <Â£50 all in quite easily. That's as cheap as a set of PIAA bulbs!

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#9 sleeky

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 08:28 AM

Get them from China factory direct, thats what me and mr Malin did

Or if you want a higher quality kit get hold of a Korean or Japanese made one, cost more though, lol.

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#10 Dan

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 08:35 AM

sleeky do you have any specific examples?

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#11 sleeky

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 08:53 AM

This seller is who we got ours from:

http://stores.ebay.com/Kassabian9898-Car-China

Good kit with 3 year warranty.

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#12 Dan

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 08:58 AM

What colour temp are yours?

What about these japanese 'higher quality' ones?

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#13 sleeky

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Posted 25 May 2007 - 09:11 AM

Ive got 4300k (most light output) think James got the same. There fine with the puma headlamps and as they are projectors you still get that blue/purple flicker than you get on oem equipped cars.

The Korean and Japaneese made kits are harder to find and ive only just started looking into them. But TBH ive had no problem with that kit and I don't think James has either and with a 3 year warranty they obviously have confidence in them lasting.

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Posted 26 May 2007 - 06:35 PM

QUOTE (Cat Daddy @ May 25 2007, 08:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

WHAT ??? 20 pounds for one bulb ???

can't be, can it ?

I would be happy to organize those bulbs for no more than 8 pounds each, hand-carried to the anniversary meet in July.

philips are a german firm aren't they? oyu near a factory or got someone in one? how much delivered to uk?

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Posted 26 May 2007 - 07:16 PM

QUOTE (wze3369 @ May 26 2007, 08:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

philips are a german firm aren't they?

OI!

The're Dutch!!

Eindhoven, city of light and all that!

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#16 James Enwood

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Posted 27 May 2007 - 08:11 PM

Thanks for all the replys, I have decided just to go the for the below headlight bulbs.

I have just won the below ebay auction.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1

All I need to do now is get a pair of better side light bulbs.

James

This post has been edited by James Enwood: 27 May 2007 - 08:13 PM

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