Couple of questions, 3 actually.

[BI6VXR]

Anyone know how to remove or alter the Vauxhall wording displayed on the dash?

Can anyone advise if 265/30/19 tyres will go on the Monaro rears without carving up the rear arches.

Anyone fitted HID's to a Monaro....where did you mount the ballasts?


Thanks in advance.

[Magic919]

1. I think it can be done, but not a trivial mod.

2. http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=27&...

3. Depends. Bear in mind the 'Ro lights are constant live and the earth is switched. If your ballasts have an electrical earth via the body of the ballast, you'll have to watch what they touch. Mine are like this so I cable tied them on under the plastic cover at the front of the bay over the rad and stuff.

[ringram]

Talk to Mark at Rapid about question 1. I know he has a tech2 GM tool, so might be able to reprogram your BCM with the Holden firmware.

[delmeekc]

Fitted HID's in the projector lamps and the fogs, projector ballasts on the little shelfs on the wing, right one is behind the battery, fog ballasts in the bottom of the front bumper. I covered them (around the four sides) with insulation tape to stop them coming on should they come loose. Projector lamps are not much better then doing the 65W standard bulb swap but the fogs or 10 times better so I adjusted them for normal driving by lowering them loads so I can use them all the time without blinding oncoming drivers.

[BI6VXR]

Thanks for the response.

I have ordered HID kits for dip beam and main beam, what type of bulb is the fog lamp bulb?

Thanks in advance.

[delmeekc]

err, H3's, took abit of getting in the lamps.

Waste of time on the high beam at there is about a 5 to 10 minute wait for the lamp to fully ignite to maximum brightness. You will be flashing people with a blue light too.

what temperature bulbs have you ordered.

I paid less then £100 a pair with ballasts and wiring.

I bought a pair of H11's, a pair of H3's and a pair of H7's (for the scooter). Also use Xenon extreme white 65W for the full beam, same colour as the HID's.

[TRP]

Be warned, If your in the UK fitting retrofit HID bulbs is illegal on a road car. Take a look at www.hid.moonfruit.com

[Fluffsri/cv8]

Cant get the link to work(might be works comp filter though) Ill try later as a lot of lads on the VVOC and VxON forums have been fitting HIDs but im sure they have to have washers fitted as they are illegal with out them. My S3 failed the MOT last year as one of the washers wasnt working.

[Magic919]

Fail x2.

All HIDs fall outside Road Vehicle Lighting Regs in UK, so I wouldn't worry about it.

[TRP]

You are correct that HIDs do not fall within Road Vehicle Lighting Regs however the one critical part of this you are missing is that the Road Vehicle Lighting Regs are the specification for any compulsory and/or optional lights that road vehicle must comply with to be road legal. The only way a vehicle can not comply and still be road legal is if it comply with the new European regs that we now have to comply with as being part of the EU and retofit HIDs are also illegal in them as well.

[l4jor]

You need to have headlamp washers and the headlights have to adjust automatically to the vehicles position on the road surface via sensors on the suspesion, check out an Omega with HID lights. If not fitted with these items then is not legal.