Headlight bulb replacement

[north nob]

Umm, going to get car fettled prior to Rockingham. As it's going to the factory, seemed a good chance to replace front candles with H7 Osram Silverstar bulbs as per various threads on the subject.

Now for the stupid question, how many bulbs are there to replace on a 3R, 2 or 4? Needless to say I've checked the car/handbook and am alas no wiser!?

Thanks (anyone).


Richard

[joust]

Sorry - no idea. However, if you ring the factory in the morning and ask for Bob Sharpe he'll be able to easily tell you.

J

[north nob]

Thanks J, I'll ring Bob; was hoping someone might know tonight so I could get on and order them from powerbulbs.
The main beams look to be H7's, can't see what's in the dip beams.


Richard

[Mr Noble]

I think the main beams are ok, its just the dips that are a little weak. I am considering taking a torch out with me the next time I drive at night as I think it may light the road better!!

Does one really have to "cut" open the seals to replace the bulbs for brighter ones?

Sorry mate I am not sure what the dips are but the mains are H7'S

[joust]

Get them adjusted correctly (Mole Valley have done mine and they have the "nack" of making them point in the right place). As standard they aren't adjusted high enough, hence you can only see about 10 foot in front of you.

And yes - you do have to cut the seal. Make sure you clean it all off and seal it back up well afterwards (or let the factory do it )
J

[chillidog]

Yes, Kerridges did a good adjustment good job on mine. They were absolutely abysmal before that. I got some spare H7 Osram bulbs from powerbulbs.com recently and I might ask Kerridges to replace them for me on the next service, but since the adjustment's been done I'm in two minds as to whether this'll be just a case of "fixing something that isn't really broken".

[joust]

Echo!

I'd pretty much say 3R lights are reasonably OK on their own, once adjusted, but adding the powervision ones won't do any harm, and will make the beam "whiter".

J

[chillidog]

joust said:

Echo!

Yea - the responsiveness of the PH webservice is getting worse, sometimes you click "submit Reply" and the PH service sits there doing apparantly nothing for a couple of mins AND then completely fails to do the submission. So you go through it all again and resubmit.

This morning it was taking minutes to get the thing posted, hence the retry and duplicate. It could be network issue but as others are doing double postings it's probably the PH service.

Oi Ted, any ideas?

>> Edited by chillidog on Thursday 10th March 15:51

[joust]

Post on the website feedback forums and I'm sure Ted will have a look.

J

[north nob]

Re the bulb replacement programme, (worth replacing all once you decide to hack into unit, IMHO) I rang Bob at the factory today, he went and found out that the dip and main beam are H7's, hence you (or I rather) need 4. Oops. I'm going to have super bright beams for Rockingham, that should help my driving. Think I've lost the plot.



R

[MOD500]

Have put the Osram bulbs in the 933, they made the lights a bit better.

Powerbulbs are excellent, turns out the warehouse is only 15 mins from me, so I collected my bulbs from them. The owner is a nice chap and car nut, he drives a GT 3 look C4.

[useless info mode off]

[chillidog]

north nob said:

I rang Bob at the factory today, he went and found out that the dip and main beam are H7's, hence you (or I rather) need 4.

Doh, I only ordered 2 from powerbulbs. Still a sidelighthas now gone on the "Helga" the Audi, so I can order 2 more H7 Osrams at the same time.

[lucozade]

Oops - so 4 are required.

I got mine done recently but only supplied my dealer with 2. I wonder what ones they put them in.

Oh poop.

>> Edited by lucozade on Friday 11th March 16:20