So I have got Factory fitted Bi-Xenon lights, but have had retro fitted LED lights so I still have headlight washers levellers etc and the lights still perform their check/diagnostic check.
As I’m sure people have seen before with other people cars but the lights are just pretty poor and don’t give as good an output as you’d expect. It’s a 2005 but the lights being LED day running lights I guess makes them 2009 onwards.
I even saw a 2002 Renault espace with factory Xenons where brighter and sharper than my ones.
I’ve been thinking that it could be the ballasts because I changed the bulbs which did improve the brightness slightly but not greatly and thought if they were failing then it won’t allow the bulb to get much brighter. But to be honest the bulbs do get bright they just don’t have a great deal of penetration past the car.
So I’ve been looking at replacing the projectors with some after market projectors. I’ve found that you can buy aftermarket projectors that accept the original DS3 bulb. And after reading up that some factory(and after market) projectors lens are supplied frosted which dampens the light output. And some are very clear lens which in turn sharpens up the light output.
I’m just wondering if anyone has ever done this sort of conversion to improve their headlight output? I don’t really want to go jacking up my headlights to find that it’s not going to make any difference?
I’ve measured as approximately as I could that from the shroud is around 2.5inchs. I tend to find that the after market lens are either 2.5 or 3 inch wide. Which makes me think the standard one might be 3 inch anyway. I noticed whilst measuring that the light shroud appears to be in 2 stages, with a step between the ‘inner’ shroud and the ‘outer’ shroud. It makes me wonder if by removing the inner shroud it would allow more light to spread out. It might not make the light penetrate further but at least spread out around the front of the car better.
I’m in two minds weather or not to buy some and start cutting up the factory ones!
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As I’m sure people have seen before with other people cars but the lights are just pretty poor and don’t give as good an output as you’d expect. It’s a 2005 but the lights being LED day running lights I guess makes them 2009 onwards.
I even saw a 2002 Renault espace with factory Xenons where brighter and sharper than my ones.
I’ve been thinking that it could be the ballasts because I changed the bulbs which did improve the brightness slightly but not greatly and thought if they were failing then it won’t allow the bulb to get much brighter. But to be honest the bulbs do get bright they just don’t have a great deal of penetration past the car.
So I’ve been looking at replacing the projectors with some after market projectors. I’ve found that you can buy aftermarket projectors that accept the original DS3 bulb. And after reading up that some factory(and after market) projectors lens are supplied frosted which dampens the light output. And some are very clear lens which in turn sharpens up the light output.
I’m just wondering if anyone has ever done this sort of conversion to improve their headlight output? I don’t really want to go jacking up my headlights to find that it’s not going to make any difference?
I’ve measured as approximately as I could that from the shroud is around 2.5inchs. I tend to find that the after market lens are either 2.5 or 3 inch wide. Which makes me think the standard one might be 3 inch anyway. I noticed whilst measuring that the light shroud appears to be in 2 stages, with a step between the ‘inner’ shroud and the ‘outer’ shroud. It makes me wonder if by removing the inner shroud it would allow more light to spread out. It might not make the light penetrate further but at least spread out around the front of the car better.
I’m in two minds weather or not to buy some and start cutting up the factory ones!
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