| This is a growing list of options for upgrading the lighting on your car. I am limiting this to upgrades that are not custom. If you have something that I dont have listed, feel free to email me, include year/make of car, and mods to the car to make the lamps fit, and where you bought the lamps. This is for performance upgrades only, not looks. This is for North American spec cars. General 1. Add relays to get more power to your bulbs 2. Wire front sidemarkers to flash with front turnsignals -Tip. When adding ECE headlamps with "city lights" run the wires from the side marker to the city light. Then run extra wires from the front park positive and the turnsignal positive to the side marker to flash with turn signal and still illuminate with park lamps 3. Disable Day Time Running lamps when installing Xenon, add DRL aux lamps Audi Mercedes-Benz R107 1.replace 5.75 inch round sealed beams with Cibie CSRs with relays, tie lows to highs 2.add rear fog, use stock switch 3.add European Spec Aero H4 headlamps with leveling and wipers 4.add European Spec side repeater. W113 1.replace 7 inch round sealed beams with ECE spec H4 lamps with relays 2.add U.S. fog/turnsignal/park on cars not equipped 3.1 replace 1 and 2 with Euro smooth face lamps. 3.2 Pre 1971 ECE headlamps use R2 non halogen bulbs, replace bulb with H4 with R2 base, add relays. 3.3 1971 ECE headlamps use H1 halogen and H3 halogen for fog with relays with lows linked to highs 4. Add tail lamps with amber turn signals 5. Add MBZ OE rear fog 6.instead of 1, try to find a twin H1 replacement headlamp. W123 1.replace 7 inch round sealed beams with ECE spec H4 lamps with relays 2.number 1 plus remove fog lamps and insert Cibie CSR 5.75inch high beams linked to outer high beams with relays, 3. add new fogs under bumper, wire to turn off with highs. 4.ECE European headlamps with clear or yellow fogs with leveling, wipers, and relays. 5.number 2 plus Valeo BiXenon 7 inch round replacement headlamps with relays.(not yet aval) 6.add rear fog, use stock headlamp switch. W124 1.replace HL's with ECE spec(fog yellow or clear)smooth face lamps with relays, leveling,and wipers 2.replace HL's with ECE spec 500E(E500) HL's with inner extra driving lamps, with relays and leveling 3.add rear fog, use stock switch 4.add fender mounted side repeater W126 sedan 1.replace 200mm sealed beams with ECE H4s 2.replace aero or sealed lamps with ECE H4 based lamps with either white or yellow fogs with leveling and wipers. 3.disable fogs in headlamps, add SEC fogs in lower bumper in either white or yellow W126 coupe 1.add early sealed beam headlamps/bucket/bezel and install 200mm ECE H4 lamps with relays 2.replace aero lamps with ECE H4 lamps with leveling, wipers, and relays W163 1.pre 2002 cars, add updated 2002 projector headlamps with Hella adapter wire(HINC PN 87223) Halogen updates to halogen, Xenon upgrades to BiXenon. Adding Xenon to Halogen without a leveling sensor or washing system will cause glare for other drivers. 2.BiXenon equipped cars in North America with North American headlamps, wire BiXenon function to stock halogen high for more high beam. 3.pre 2002 cars, add updated 2002 tail lamps. Volkswagen Golf I 1.replace 200mm retangle Sealed Beams with ECE spec H4 based lamps with relays 2.add Cabriolet fenders, rad support, headlamp buckets and ECE 7 inch round with relays 3.number 2 plus Hella quad grill kit with inner 5.75 inch driving lamps Golf I Cabriolet 1.replace 7 inch round Sealed Beams with ECE spec H4 based lamps with relays 2.add Hella quad grill kit with inner 5.75inch driving lamps Golf II/Jetta II 1.replace 200mm retangle sealed beams with ECE spec H4 based lamps with relays 2.replace U.S. Aero headlamps with ECE Jetta II H4 bases headlamps with relays 3.replace rad support and grill and add ECE VW round lamps with H4 bulb and relays 4.number 3 plus Hella quad girll kit with inner 5.75 inch driving lamps 5.replace rad support and grill and add Rallye Golf lamps w/ projector low beams and relays with the lows tied to the high beams. No high wattage bulbs in projectors! 6.number 5 with Hella Xenon projectors from any Hella 70mm Xenon projector. High beams must be tied to lows! BiXenon is not confirmed to fit yet. Disable DRLs. 7.add big bumpers and O.E. fog lamps, avail in clear, yellow, and smoked. 8.add headlamp washing with big bumpers Golf III/Jetta III(Jetta will have to change front ends to do more than number 1) 1.replace headlamps with ECE Aero H4s with relays and leveling, euro rad support helps or fabrication needed to fit 2.replace headlamps with ECE Aero H1/H1 GTI lamps with relays and leveling, tie lows to highs, Jettas will need different grill/hood. Do same as 1 to fit. 3.replace headlamps with Hella projector quad lamps with H1/H1 bulbs and relays. Do the same as 1. Come in smoked or clear. 4.replace headlamps with Hella ECE Golf IV look headlamps with H7/H7 bulbs, leveling and relays. Do the same as 1 to fit. Come in smoked and clear. 5. add GTI fog lamps. Euro fogs need Euro bumper, Euro fogs come in smoked, yellow, clear. No performance difference between US and Euro fogs if same color. Wire to turn off with highs. 6. add Hella FF DRLs and clear turns to match number 4, euro bumper maybe needed. 7. add headlamp washers, euro bumper needed. 8. wire US side marker to flash with turn signal per Dan Stern's how-to. 9. add rear fog with ECE HL switch and tails lamps. Some rewiring needed. Golf IV/Jetta IV(Jetta will have to change to Golf front end to do more than numbers 1-3,8) 1.replace headlamps with ECE lamps without fogs. plug and play, add relays and leveling. come in smoked(Hella Aftermarket), half smoked(25th A.E.), or clear. 2.on non turbo cars add Hella Micro DE fogs, wire to turn off with highs. 3 on turbo cars add number 1 with fog lamps, add relay for fogs to turn off with highs. 4. Hella "triple" Halogen projectors with leveling 5. Hella "triple" Xenon low/halogen high with auto leveling(see 11) 6. Hella "triple" Halogen low/Xenon high with leveling 7. Hella 'triple"Xenon/Xenon with auto leveling (see 11) 8. Bosch O.E. Xenons with auto leveling, Jettas need to wire lows to highs.(see 11) 9 Euro bumper with headlamp washers on Golf, Jetta needed Jetta wagon underbumper to fit, great upgrade for any but needed for 5,7,8. 10. Euro headlamp switch for front and rear fogs, Id only do one rear fog on the driver's side. 11.Hella ECE DRL kit for Golf with disabled DRLs because Xenon cannot run on reduced power with stock DRLs. For Diesels:plug lead into TFL pin on the back of the headlamp switch using a VW repair wire 000979133. 12.Add ambient lighting by replacing interior light with B5.5 W8 interior light(avail for both w/ or w/o moonroof) or for GLX with tech package pre '02, add 2002 and up interior mirror. 13.Add B5.5 W8 Aero wiper blades, need L and R arms and blades. Notes:4-8 do not have fog lamps in the headlamp. Passat B5 1.Add ECE FF headlamps with leveling 2.Add ECE halogen projectors with leveling 3.Add Hella ECE Xenon projectors with Autoleveling 4.headlamp washing system(avail at any US VW dealer, not a kit though) 5.Driver's side Rear fog with ECE headlamp switch 6.ECE matching FF metalized turn signals and side repeaters for 1-3(add side reflex) 7.Add ambient lighting by replacing interior light with B5.5 W8 interior light(avail for moonroof or w/o) 8.Add Hella ECE DRL kit for number 3. 9.Add the "aero" wiper blades, need L and R blades and arms, avail from VW dealership Passat B5.5(W8 can only do 3 and 4) 1.Add ECE BiXenon headlamps with auto leveling 2.Add W8 headlamp washing system(avail at any US VW dealer, not a kit) 3.Add driver's rear fog lamp with ECE headlamp switch, must get European taillamp bulb holders for both sides as the brake functions are different on the US cars. 4.Add Hella Micro DE fog lamps and wire to turn off with high beams. 5.Add ambient lighting by replacing interior light with B5.5 W8 interior light(avail for moonroof or w/o) 6.Cars before '03, add the "aero" wiper blades, need L and R blades and arms, avail from VW dealership. Scirocco 1.1Replace 165mm retangle sealed beams with ECE H4 lows and H1 highs, add relays 1.2Replace 5.75inch round sealed beams with Cibie CSRs H1/H1, tie lows to highs with relays 2 Add European flush headlamps with H4s and inner driving lights. 3 Add rear fog on driver's side, donno about switch. |
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