Headlights...

[Bassfiend]

Reading through a thread from a couple of months ago about improving the lighting on the Chim then it seems that the first step is obviously to sort the power supply to the bulbs - sounds reasonable and should be reasonably easy to do but there was a bit of debate over whether you should actually fit heavier load bulbs ...

Some people seemed to be advocating just the normal bulbs with the power supply sorted, others heavier load bulbs such as 80/100w, others the 55/60w replacement Philips 50% brighter bulbs and there's always the non-E marked bulbs too...

Has anyone actually been "done" for using brighter bulbs? If you get stopped then how does the "they are what was in the car when I bought it" excuse fall with the boys in blue?

What's the reccomendation of the experts? ;-)

Phil

[sagalout]

Thought the factory fitted 80/100 bulbs as standard, just didn't tell anyone. So keep this quiet. (You ain't seen me, right).
The lights on mine are fine, much better than many cars I've driven.

[shpub]

sagalout said:

Thought the factory fitted 80/100 bulbs as standard, just didn't tell anyone. So keep this quiet. (You ain't seen me, right). The lights on mine are fine, much better than many cars I've driven.

The Griffi and Chimpari have the normal 55W. The wiring is suspect for anything brighter and the wiring has been known to burn out or worse set fire to the car. Best bulb option is the brighter but 55W consumption bulbs if you want to do a straight swap.

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[Trefor]

I know of a number of Chimaeras with 80/100 bulbs, and it looks as if they were fitted as std on some cars. Mine has them - I always thought my lights were good, and found out why when I came to replace one recently.

[Incorrigible]

Mine work really well but probably more effort than some uprated wiring