If you think that the light pattern is bad with the Hellas,  you should try
the sealed-beam lights they gave us here in the US.  I put Hella H-4's on
mine and the difference is night and day!!!  Sealed beam lights was the way
the DOT forced foreign manufactures to put American products in our
cars....the standards have now been relaxed somewhat, but newer 9004 lamps
have a rubber seal on it to seal the lamp housing from the elements and
still don't work as well as the Euro H-4's.
Karl Batzler
La Quinta, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Roy O. <keepsake@PANGEA.CA>
To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM <vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 6:44 AM
Subject: Cleaning Headlights

>Hats off to whoever (whomever?) suggested swishing liquid glass cleaner
>(Windex)inside headlamps then using a hand held hair dryer to dry them up.
Very
>clever! and it works! Now the headlamp lenses and reflectors are clean and
>shiny. With the extremely poor light pattern of the factory installed Hella
>headlamps, every little bit helps!
>
>Roy O.
>'87 Westfalia
>(till death us do part)
>