No car should have blinding lights!� But, I think you are talking
about HID or High Intensity Discharge also called Xenon lights by some
which look ultra white straight on and have a hint of blue when looked at
from the side or some kid dropped some FleaBay 10000K retrofit kit into
his Honduh.

I am going to build a prototype HID setup for the
Vanagon here probably in about 6 to 8 weeks from now and see how well I
like it.� Currently I am working on the final design of the BMW
F650GS using dual 60mm projector style D2S HID at 5400K color temp.�
The lights have both high and low beam via a little magnetic shutter that
moves up and down.� Same as what the VW Touareg uses and the Audi
A6.� Verrry nice in the bike... should equally nice on the
Vanagon.

Unfortunately, for it to be legal the setup would
costs thousands of dollars.� In order for HID to be legal, you must
have headlight washers, auto-levelers along with SAE / ECE compliant
lenses.� So to do it for the Vanagon and keep the price in the sub
$1000 range it would have to be an illegal setup without washers and
levelers, but the lenses and the rest of the kit that I have is SAE / ECE
compliant.

David Marshall
VW Adventure Driver and BMW
Adventure Rider
 
HasenWerk 
http://www.hasenwerk.ca

On Sat, January 9, 2010 13:32, Arkady Mirvis wrote:
> In
my 72 I started to feel that night vision to be good I need stronger
> light. One way is to add couple hadlights. I have 2 rectangular
Hella 181
> above the bumper already. I used them since 1987 on
long stretches as high
> beam lights. Can anyone tell me about the
way I can upgrade  lights on my
> 1987 Westy to be on a par with
those blinding lights BMW, INFINITI, LEXUS
> have? What is
involved. Are there any kits to upgrade.
> 
> Ark
>