944 S2/ Turbo lights?

[mr_yogi]

The other day when I got back home, while I was letting my turbo cool I thought I would check all my lights were working and...

Parking lights - fine, outside half below the indicators.
Dipped headlights - fine, popups.
Full beam headlights - fine, popups.
front fog lights - fine, also outside half below the indicators (same as Parking Lights).

So what are the inside half of the lights below the indicators?

Are they a dummy area to make it look right?

I caouldn't find any switches to turn them on, whatevery they are if they are lights?

Are they supposed to come with main beam or something?

[Thom]

They are the flash lights if I'm not mistaken.

[mr_yogi]

How do you mean? If I flash full beam (pull the level towards me) with the lights off nothing happens - should it be those inside lights?
If I flash with the parking or dipped headlights on the popups flash.

[Thom]

mr_yogi said:

If I flash full beam (pull the level towards me) with the lights off nothing happens - should it be those inside lights?

Yes !

[AJLintern]

When you are on main beam these inner lights (driving lights) come on. When you dip the lights they turn off. Sounds like they both have blown bulbs! You have much improved main beam illumination to look forward to

[mr_yogi]

Thanks for that! will take a look tomorrow

[williamp]

Andy Lintern is right. I have never been happy with my dipped beam lights, but on full beam they are tremendous- they enable you to do very quick averages at night

[mr_yogi]

Thanks for all the replies. This morning I took a look at the fuse (additional headlamp #9?) and it had blown, so i replaced it but the lights still didn't work. So I thought I'd take a look on the web for bulbs - H3 55Watt. Not knowing anything about car bulbs, will any H3 55W bulb fit? Are there different fittings or sizes?

Many are also marked as "xenon" are these ok to be used? And if so why do companies offer "xenon" conversions for £300+, if you can simply stick a xenon bulb into your existing headlights?

Finally can anyone recommend a supplier and/ or brand of bulbs, or are Halfords as good as any?

[interloper]

Early 944 have a switch turning off the spot lights, maybe the later models have this too, got to be worth a try ?

[diver944]

Yes Halfords will be fine. H3 is the fitment type so all brands will fit. Most motor stores will have charts to help you pick the right one.

First thing though is to really soak the 4 screws holding each lens to the bumper in penetrating oil. Virtually all 944's have these screws corroded in place and you may have to carefully drill them out. If you arse it up those lenses are approx £80 each from the cheap places, and if you damage the back plate they are £80 too

'Xenon' bulbs just burn brighter and tend to have an annoying twinkle or colour so everyone flashes you for being too bright. I wouldn't bother.

Eat more carrots

[agent006]

mr_yogi said:

Many are also marked as "xenon" are these ok to be used? And if so why do companies offer "xenon" conversions for £300+, if you can simply stick a xenon bulb into your existing headlights?

The cheap ones are just 'normal' bulbs filled with xenon in place of halogen gas. Fine to use in place of a normal bulb, avoid the blue tinted ones as they look terribly chavvy.

Proper xenon systems don't have a fillament, they work by arcing a current between two points to create their light. You can get kits that will fit in place of your existing bulbs. Not used them myself, but i'm told they're OK.

Best bulbs are usually philips Vision Plus for regular stuff.