US running lights

[xjay1337]

Im in 2 minds what to do now as i dont really want them burning out may have to just turn them off to stop any un wanted problems

[Northy1985]

Im in 2 minds what to do now as i dont really want them burning out may have to just turn them off to stop any un wanted problems

Your point is what

[xjay1337]

Because you're worrying about a non-existant problem.

[Northy1985]

Only because somone is selling the same set of loghts i have but they have burnt out because of running the running lights

[Jayy26]

Bit harsh ^^

Hi bud just got one of my projector lights just ordering another .

What lights are you running in the headlights?

Im after replacing all the lights on the front on my car including the side lights so i can do the US spec mod

cheers

[Northy1985]

There running 5000k hid h7 bulbs. Matched with philips extreme 130% h7 high beam.

[GTI-Pirelli]

I think what the OP is talking about is running the indicators at 100% brightness. I have heard that this can cause damage to the holders due to excessive heat. The indicator is not designed to be on all of the time. It will have a duty cycle of approx 50% (flashing) under the normal design intent.

If it helps I used to run my indicators at about 20% as US style DRL's. This was mostly because 100% looks crap and irritates other road users.

I think this is about 20%:

[Northy1985]

I believe mine are around 40% may be abit lower. I dont know if it coincidence but came out today and battery was dead its been fine up untill i put these new lights in lol

[xjay1337]

Headlights  would not effect the battery.
I never do more than 30% and even that's a bit high IMO.
If you run them at 100% you have bigger problems than bulb holders lol. You'll cause a crash!

[jaffa]

I'm at only something like 12%


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[SI-R32]

What would be interesting to know is if there are any American owners on here with vcds that could tell us what the oem % is from factory,  then you could gauge an idea of the oem set up

[Northy1985]

Headlights  would not effect the battery.
I never do more than 30% and even that's a bit high IMO.
If you run them at 100% you have bigger problems than bulb holders lol. You'll cause a crash!

Haha yeah thats a point i dont want to cause a crash Im going to change mine to 30% tomorow just to be on the safe side also what is this xenon without shutters i have heard of is it wise to do this to mine with the set up i have if so will try see if i can do this too 

[stuart-88]

I had depo's with US drl from the indicators for over 2 years. Sold the car, but it still has them. Never had a problem

That's a good enough answer for me then I will just how it goes. Did you have yours coded for xenon without shutters I just see that this has to be done when using these lights, I ain't coded mine

I have no idea tbh. It was xjay that did mine @ 30% brightness.