

| Subject: | Re: Cibie H4 rectangular in a Vanagon? |
| From: | Andrew Grebneff |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:02:00 +1300 |
>I too would like to know this also... I have cibies from my old saab >upgrade. I will say however... they don't really live up to the hype. >They are better, but not earthshatteringly better than the DOT lamps >they replaced. That will depend on the lights themselves as well as the health of the wiring etc. Good H4s will make a huge improvement. Lens design and reflector quality is everything. Poor design renders a short beam with brightspots and holes. There must be websites which have tests of various H4 units. I would imagine that, like generic round headlights, the VW and Cibie lights will have the same fittings. I remember from my motorcycling days, on my Honda CBX with a Stanley H4 (the bike shop sold me a LHD unit and I didn't notice until too late... stored it for over a year before looking closely at it) at night... my friend behind me on his s**theap GS1000, going around a bend with a bank on the outside... his H4 cast my shadow in my own headlight beam! I put H4s in my single-round-light 74 Passat, and they were brilliant (one Hella, the other I can't remember). The standard generic 5x7" H4s in my 89 Corolla are good enough without being great; the lights in my 88 Skyline diesel were the best I've ever driven with. Whenever I have to drive something with old-fashioned headlights (eg 82 Cruiser wagon, 89 Corona), I wonder at the dimness and yellowness of the lights. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut � Opinions stated are mine, not of the University of Otago "There is water at the bottom of the ocean" - Talking Heads
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