

| Subject: | lighting upgrades |
| From: | Joe Federici |
| Date: | Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:17:20 -0500 |
Today I finished up with my lighting improvements I've been working on over the last week. They included running new wire and relays for H4 headlights, Hella FF1000 driving lights and a single work lamp on the rear bumper for backing up. There are lots of ways to go about running power to the headlights but a few tips that most write ups don't bother to go over. if your changing the headlights to Euro H4 or even replacing a broken headlights chances are the plastic adjusters will break wile removing the light. Save yourself trouble and buy new ones ahead of time unless they were replaced recently, most of the venders and dealers do not stock all of them needed so check ahead of time. If your planing on using the VW optional fog lamp switch (also sold by many of the common venders) with lighted dot when on(like rear defroster switch), you will need to get the male w/ pig tails from the dealer as most of venders did not cary them and on my car the plug was different then others so I couldn't take from a parts van furthermore, you can just use generic connectors. I bought my H4 lights from Fast Forward (group buy: thanks David!!) but I would also recommend both of these lighting venders for wiring parts or lights. Dan Stern sells a Hella Headlight relay kit that includes most of what you need: H4 light plugs, relays, relay plugs and connectors, and fuses plus great free instructions on his site. Susquehanna Motor sports also sells the same Hella relays and parts (not a kit) plus male 9004 plugs with pig tails (great to use for trigger wires on relays so you do not need to cut your harness), All kinds of driving lights and work lamps. Susquehanna motor sports <http://www.rallylights.com/> Daniel Stern Lighting <http://www.danielsternlighting.com/> I'm very happy with the final results although I think a higher output alternator is in my near future ;-). the final setup is Low/high 80/100w with 100w inner high beams and 100w FF1000 and added 55w rear light. JFF
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