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Subject:Re: Some good info about E-code headlamps & "City Lights"
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:13:19 +1200

>  100/55W bulbs can be
>furnished to keep the low beams civilized and still punch the next county
>with the high beams.  I do not handle the 3rd-world bulbs you can find in
>the pages of JC Whitney and in lots of other places.  I carry only
>German-made (Osram, Philips, Narva) bulbs.  My policy of selling ONLY items
>I would use voluntarily on my own cars extends down to bulbs!

What about Ring, another German brand? I had a set of 80/100W Rings
in my Bay's Hella H4s. they didn't give ANY better light than 65/55s
and the bulb bases eventually burned, allowing the terminals to fall
out!
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut