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Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
« on: July 05, 2014, 01:06:03 am »
Looking to remove my factory xenons from my car and put them on another which is running halogen items. How easy/hard is this and is there coding etc involved

Any links or vids that can provide further Info?

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Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2014, 02:20:34 am »
Fitting xenon's to another Golf running halogen headlights requires adapters and coding with VCDS.
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Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2014, 08:05:01 am »
How are you going to cope without headlights on your car? Or are you doing a swap back with the standard headlights into yours?
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Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2014, 08:37:08 am »
google my friend...took 2 seconds to find this



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Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2014, 01:50:07 pm »
Thanks for the links and info. I'll have a look over them just now.

I've seen another ED30 I'm interested in running halogens and my current car runs xenons so it would be a case of swapping them over in the driveway if that's poss.

If a car with xenons doesn't have headlight washers is that a mot fail?

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Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2014, 01:52:11 pm »


If a car with xenons doesn't have headlight washers is that a mot fail?


I heard that was the case mate, cos I wanted xenons on mine
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Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2014, 02:10:16 pm »
No, if washers and headlight levelling devices are fitted, then they must work. If not fitted then they can't be tested so cannot fail.
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Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2014, 07:01:05 pm »
No, if washers and headlight levelling devices are fitted, then they must work. If not fitted then they can't be tested so cannot fail.
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