Changing Bulbs.

[rixge]

Whats the correct way to do it please, i know there are four nuts to remove, but which ones ? Help appreciated.

[gooby]

Oh there are far more than 4 nuts. If you are changing to get a brighter bulb, dont bother. I stuck 100 watt rally bulbs in there and it makes sod all difference.

First get a very low trollwy jack.
Loosen nuts on front wheel
Find jacking points and lift front wheel off ground
remove wheel.

Remove front arch inner lining (2 screws at the bottom.)
Remove light cover (3 bolts)
Remove light cluster assy (3 allen bolts and one bolt inside the light assy)
Change bulb (wonder which designed such a crap unit)
Put the whole lot back together repeat on side 2.

First side will take about 1 hour, second about 45 mins and at the moment a warm well lit garage is essential.

[sja]

As Gooby said.. However I didn't need to remove wheel just put it on full lock..
I got some "better" bulbs from powerbulbs website, changed side lights and main..

Improvement is very little...

[GTRene]

So, its very complex to change lightbulbs?? hm...and the light is poor even with extra watt? how about those phillips bulbs? a bit blue and they say dubble the sight??(on a normal car)
So when you wanted realy more sight the only way to go is HID? lights? or how do you call those? the expensive lights...? ah...got it...the Xenon lights, they make a difference, but at a cost of 960,-euro's??
GTRene

>> Edited by GTRene on Friday 3rd February 11:03

[sja]

Yeah I put the blue ones in.. Certainly not dubble sight!

[GTRene]

sja said:

Yeah I put the blue ones in.. Certainly not dubble sight!

But is it a reasonable extra light? 20% more?? is it worth doing? or are those Xenon worth the money on a dark road...what are the price's of Xenon in GB?
GTRene

[richardb.jones]

Just replacing 55W bulbs with 100W ones will double the current drawn on the same wiring specified for 55W (or 4.5A) - best case, your 5A fuse goes pop, worst case, you melt the wire and cause a fire ... :-(

If you want to get the full benefit out of changing to 100W bulbs (which are incidentally road illegal anyway..) then you need to upgrade the wiring loom to take the new current (8.3A each) - The less resistance in the wire, the less voltage loss you will get so the brighter the bulb... Therefore use wire capable of taking 20A or so, still protect with a 10A fuse but you'll get less voltage loss this way.

[rixge]

Cheers fellas, goobs mentioned this last year about not bothering to change the bulbs as it makes no diff, the standard are just pants, replacement xenon H7 cant be any worse...I hope Oh well we shall see. The weather has got to get warmer before i will even contemplate changing them. Thanks again all.


Rick.

[PB9]

I have just had HID fitted. I have a fault at the moment so only one side is working. That on its own makes more light than both used to provide. The light is also a much better colour which lights the ground much better.

[gooby]

richardb.jones said:

Just replacing 55W bulbs with 100W ones will double the current drawn on the same wiring specified for 55W (or 4.5A) - best case, your 5A fuse goes pop, worst case, you melt the wire and cause a fire ... :-( If you want to get the full benefit out of changing to 100W bulbs (which are incidentally road illegal anyway..) then you need to upgrade the wiring loom to take the new current (8.3A each) - The less resistance in the wire, the less voltage loss you will get so the brighter the bulb... Therefore use wire capable of taking 20A or so, still protect with a 10A fuse but you'll get less voltage loss this way.

.... or get HID...

[GTRene]

What will that cost HID/Xenon for the Lotus S2...I know the dealer here ask around 960,-euro about 650,-gbp

[rixge]

Yeah costly, and i missed out on the group buy