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Subject:Re: HID light upgrades - anyone try them?
From:John Meeks
Date:Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:27:35 -0400

On 10/28/07, David Marshall <mailinglist@fastforward.ca> wrote:
> I am considering installing some HID lights in my Westfalia - I am looking
> at these ones that you see on eBay and the like that replaces the H4 bulb
> with a HID light and the seperate ballast that plugs into the OE
> wiring.

Read what Daniel Stern has to say about the HID kits:
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/Hid/conversions/conversions.html
Note the pattern difference between filament and arc lamps. He makes
the point that the Halogen headlamps and HID headlamps require very
different optics to produce a safe and effective�not to mention
legal�beam pattern.

-- 
John Meeks

'91 Multivan, '85 GL bits
Northern Michigan
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