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People who retrofitted xenons..what was your choice of bulb?
« on: January 16, 2014, 10:48:06 pm »
..did you go for brighter H7's, a standard HID kit or a DS2 set up?

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Re: People who retrofitted xenons..what was your choice of bulb?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2014, 10:49:34 pm »
When I facelifted my A3, I got D2S bulbs from HIDSdirect.co.uk exactly the same as OEM Audi bulbs but cost me £40 instead of £300, there is somewhere I've found £80 for the Phillips bulbs, I'd have to dig it out.
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Re: People who retrofitted xenons..what was your choice of bulb?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2014, 11:00:58 pm »
Bought a pair of Osram Xenarc D2S bulbs off a seller on ebay for £65 -  :smiley:
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Re: People who retrofitted xenons..what was your choice of bulb?
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2014, 11:09:26 am »

Cool. Where did you guys mount the ballast control unit? To the headlight or to the chassis?

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Re: People who retrofitted xenons..what was your choice of bulb?
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2014, 12:13:53 pm »
I got a 35w 4300 H7 kit from HIDsdirect and it was cack and never really worked properly, swapped it out for a 35w 5000 H7 kit from HIDS4U which has been spot on. Mounted the ballast to the side of the back of the headlamp unit (I would have put it under where it should go, but ballast was too big). This is with Depo projecter lights so plug and play for H7's. Matched with OEM style W5W normal Osram sidelight bulbs to look as OEM as possible.

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Re: People who retrofitted xenons..what was your choice of bulb?
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2014, 05:15:31 pm »
I got 8000k in my ed30 looks smart real genuine look... Mine were 90quid with warning cancelling kit looks smart!

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Re: People who retrofitted xenons..what was your choice of bulb?
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2014, 06:21:14 pm »
I had osram cool blue intense d2s bulbs which were a lovely 5000k, think they're OEM on the s class merc
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