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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2011, 01:10:52 pm »
It looks superb!   :notworthy:  I'll keep an eye out for you around the Poole & Bournemouth area.   :driver:

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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2011, 01:15:14 pm »
Aye you must - even more so considering ours look very very similar!


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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2011, 12:39:56 pm »
Little update....R32 Xenons and Kufatec adapters arriving today :D


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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2011, 07:20:58 pm »
Little update....R32 Xenons and Kufatec adapters arriving today :D

You fitting them yourself?
Do you have the self levellers? When I took mine in for an MOT they just adjusted the height for me, never used levellers on mine, cost too much.

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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2011, 09:39:13 pm »
The levellers and washers will be fitted in due course as funds allow :) If I do something, I do it properly - besides, Ive got till the end of the year to get it done!

And yes will be fitting them myself - im a qual mechanic ;)

Plus - ive just checked out this December 2011 Xenon thing, and its not official as yet. The official line is 'we need to look more into how to incorporate this into the test'. There is, as such, no official statement to say that they will fail - just that they are improving the test to help stop people putting HIDs into incompatible headlights. Some cars with factory HIDs dont have washers, and some even dont have auto levelling - instead they have incabin levelling on the dial.
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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2011, 01:33:02 pm »
Im sure it will. They've been trying to crack down on it for ages now!

Anyway...fitting them on Saturday :D with BiXenon functionality of course


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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2011, 03:42:16 pm »
Lovely car  :happy2:

Im the same wish mine had come with xenons, but you can't win them all

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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2011, 04:10:37 pm »
non factory fit xenon s will fail mot from december this year , so if your fitting them make sure you fit the lot , levelling , washers the lot

His are oem xenons Candy, same as my set up and mine passed its MOT feb 1st  2 weeks ago thanks :chicken:

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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2011, 07:02:12 pm »
No Candy  :smiley:

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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2011, 07:05:19 pm »
Private plate now fitted :D Will get some pics this weekend


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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2011, 07:11:34 pm »
No Candy  :smiley:
chances are it wont pass next years MOT then mate , the rule has not been passed yet but a mate who runs an mot garage is pretty sure it will

I think your find its refering to HID kits and not genuine oem units but
we shall see then next year.  :popcornsoda:

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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2011, 09:23:45 pm »
Anyways....back to my thread  :signLOL:


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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2011, 11:49:37 pm »
Things didnt go quite to plan with the Xenons :( Fitted them, and did all the wiring, then realised that as the car hadnt been programmed, when the engine is running, the bulbs were registering as halogen instead of xenon and therefore flickering due to the wonderful CANBUS bulb monitoring system

So...had to take the headlights off again and put them back in the boxes till Tuesday when theyll get coded and refitted.

I guess not a wasted day in all, as I got the wiring all done to OEM standard, but its rather frustrating!


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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #28 on: February 15, 2011, 10:26:21 pm »
Fitted the xenons tonight with Daves (stokeballoon) help. Great to meet someone who cares about dubs as much as i do!

They look great :) Ill be sure to get some pics up on the weekend when its had a wash
« Last Edit: February 16, 2011, 02:24:33 pm by alexperkins »


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Re: Alex's Edition 30 :)
« Reply #29 on: February 16, 2011, 02:23:14 pm »
Fitted the xenons tonight with Daves (stockballoon) help. Great to meet someone who cares about dubs as much as i do!

They look great :) Ill be sure to get some pics up on the weekend when its had a wash

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