Fitting Geniune Xenons

[petemcr]

Hi all,

I have actually had a search around on this on the forum and been reading up on it, but I'm only posting to get confirmation on this really.

I have a 2005 GTI, it has the winter pack so it should have the headlight washers, however they don't seem to work and I've noticed the water jet on the drivers side is very poor at best so I guess it has a problem, but am I right in thinking that once I had the lamps (which I'm in the process of getting) and the kuftec looms, all I am left with is the auto leveling

Is auto leveling needed to be able to fit them, or can I get them put it standard for the time being and then fit auto leveling to them later to make sure they're legel/MOT friendly

Any advice would be great

[stealthwolf]

Don't need autolevelling but washers must work if fitted. Xenons can be fitted without worrying about anything else. Autolevelling stuff can become expensive.

[marko]

you need to wire the bi-xenon function to the cecm if you want the main beam to flash in xenon aswell as the dip beam...
 

[petemcr]

Well, I've sorted out the headlight washers now

after searching on here and finding out the fuse going was common I checked and sure enough the fuse had gone, so after replacing it I'm up and running with the washers.

Marko, when you said wire the bi-xenon, is that the additional wire you get with the conversion kits from kufatec/eBay by any chance?

Also, the lights I've got don't have Ballast/Igniters, but I wasn't really planning on putting them in right away anyways so I have time to get them, but can standard HID kits be used or is the internals (I would assume they are) be differen't so standard cheap eBay HID's can't be used?

Cheers

[vrod]

The Bi-Xenon headlights have a shutter which goes down to let the rest of the xenon light come out and be functional as "high beam". There will be a cable that needs to connect each shutter to your CECM which is the central electronics box that manages most of your lightning system. As i remember they go into A2 and D5 (correct me if im wrong).

On the kufatec adapter there will be a loose cable attached to each adapter - this is the Bi-Xenon wire. You need to take this wire through the firewall and into the CECM, i can tell that its not nice to work with that limited space :)) (at least on a golf plus).

If you want to fit genuine Xenon's, you would fit the necessary parts as well, otherwise you could just buy the Hella replicas. The genuine solution costs way more than aftermarket, but then its done right.

Good luck.

[petemcr]

Awesome, I'd skim read about the CECM when I was searching around so I'd wondered what needed to be done.

I'd sorted out a headlight already and it's a genuine so I guess I'd made my bed, just going to get all the parts and get them in at a later date.

Thanks for all the info everyone

[doylebros]

Thought this article was worth a read on the subject for you - I'm not sure what display you have but this could help if problems arise!

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,37356.0.html

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5533458-Xenon-coding-with-midline-CECM