Replacement Headlight bulb needed ASAP

[Westy]

Guys, my drivers side headlight bulb died on saturday and I need to get a new one ASAP. I've done a bit of hunting around and it looks like the best price is about £50 for a pair. Does anyone have any recommendations as to what bulbs I should get? Should I go brighter?

The bulb is a Philips D2S DOT 03V 4300

TIA

 

[1animal1]

personally id stick to 4300k's mate as anything beyond that look none standard and it will look like an imitation S3...that said HID's are supposed to be brighter and will be cheaper if you get an ebay kit...downer is you have to place two ballasts in the engine bay.

dunno bout prices though.... let me know when you've replaced as im curious as to the difference between those and the tired ones that will have been in both our cars for years

 

[Welly]

Stick with standard would be my advice....

 

[1animal1]

yup i agree.... OEM all the way

 

[Westy]

Ok we're settled on OEM, just need to find some that dont cost a fortune! All this spending before my expensive Ring weekend

 

[Welly]

e my expensive Ring weekend

Is that in the back streets in an inner city massage parlour, or in Amsterdam?

 

[Westy]

You know I mean Nurburgring and not an anal service that I pay for! You ****** child

 

[Welly]

You know I mean Nurburgring and not an anal service that I pay for! You ****** child

Sorry matey, I couldn't help it!

You've got to answer when opportunity knocks...

 

[Westy]

Probably going to get these:

http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/hid-xenon-bulbs/d2s-hid-xenon-replacement-bulbs-p-447.html

I need to confirm tonight that the bulb is the problem by swapping it over with the working passenger side bulb before I order them.

 

[Welly]

Probably going to get these:

http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/hid-xenon-bulbs/d2s-hid-xenon-replacement-bulbs-p-447.html

I need to confirm tonight that the bulb is the problem by swapping it over with the working passenger side bulb before I order them.

For £17.50 I'd just order them mate. A bargain and always useful for spares...

 

[Westy]

For £17.50 I'd just order them mate. A bargain and always useful for spares...

Fair point, ordered!

 

[DJ_Troopa]

Search for 'D2S ----k' (whichever temp you require) on Ebay. That's where i got my 8000k's from for £20 delivered.

 

[1animal1]

bargain!!!

 

[Westy]

Bad news! Just got home and swapped the passenger bulb over with the drivers bulb and the bulb isn't the problem. Something else is screwed, what could it be?

I'm guessing that all the headlights run off one fuse and not one each?

 

[1animal1]

if it aint the wiring it will be your ballast packs...and i think its a bumper off job to take these outs matey

id message golf, he seems to know what he's doing with the xenons on the S3

 

[Westy]

Just been through the owners manual and it turns out that the main lights are on their own fuses (20 & 21). Fuse 20 was melted pretty bad so I think a new fuse will sort it.

I've now got 2 new xenon bulbs on the way

 

[1animal1]

haha well glad ya sorted it mate, could have been a lot worse....

look at it this way, they apparently get tired and so you can report back if you get any improvement over what you have

 

[Westy]

Yeah I'll bang the new bulbs in and let you know.

 

[DJ_Troopa]

At least you have spares though matey. They're bulbs after all and will go at some point anyway!

 

[Westy]

Just popped a new 15 amp fuse and its all working fine again

 

[1animal1]

nice one

 

[S3 Harj]

Bad news! Just got home and swapped the passenger bulb over with the drivers bulb and the bulb isn't the problem. Something else is screwed, what could it be?

I'm guessing that all the headlights run off one fuse and not one each?

How did you get them out? My passenger side xenon is dimmer so need to swap them to see if its the bulb or something else.

 

[Westy]

You need to take off the cover on the back of the headlight then twist off the big connector that is on the back of the bulb. The hardest part is then squeezing your hands in to twist the plastic ring that sits around the bulb clockwise (as you face the car). The bulb will then just pull out.