At last ! My Polo 9N has xenon-projectors ! :-)
At last ! My Polo 9N has xenon-projectors ! :-)
After many MANY blood sweat and tears me and a good friend (Tommy)managed to convert the original headlights into xenon-projector headlights.
If it wasn't for Tommy I'd never ever started this crazy conversion
Thanks to his skills the stuff works great.
Tommy made a little story (Dutch, sorry) with pictures and at the bottom of the page a little movie (clickable photo) :
http://www.jent.nu/hyperlight/poloexperiment.htm
Grtz. Joy
p.s. notice the last line
If it wasn't for Tommy I'd never ever started this crazy conversion
Thanks to his skills the stuff works great.
Tommy made a little story (Dutch, sorry) with pictures and at the bottom of the page a little movie (clickable photo) :
http://www.jent.nu/hyperlight/poloexperiment.htm
Grtz. Joy
p.s. notice the last line
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@swift,
I bought 2 new Polo headlights. 120 euro each. The xenon-set was taken from a BMW 3-series (E46 98-present). The seller tried to make his VW Vento look nice but failed. So he sold me the complete set for only 75 euro ! That was amazing cheap. Unfortunately 1 xenon-bulb was a little bit damaged, so I swapped the lights for new ones. And now I asked Tommy to order 5000 Kelvin xenon-bulbs because the standard lights (4100 k) are just a little bit to yellow.
Can be done cheap, but it's a lot of work.
I bought 2 new Polo headlights. 120 euro each. The xenon-set was taken from a BMW 3-series (E46 98-present). The seller tried to make his VW Vento look nice but failed. So he sold me the complete set for only 75 euro ! That was amazing cheap. Unfortunately 1 xenon-bulb was a little bit damaged, so I swapped the lights for new ones. And now I asked Tommy to order 5000 Kelvin xenon-bulbs because the standard lights (4100 k) are just a little bit to yellow.
Can be done cheap, but it's a lot of work.
@swift,
you can use whatever you want. It's just all custom build
I've chosen the BMW 3-serie projector because it's a relative big projector. Your Polo headlight is HUGE so you don't want a tiny projector. Also BMW projectors have got a chrome cover ring which is perfect to mask the nuts and bolts used on the back of the light.
Volkswagen uses Hella lights. Not to bad but BMW uses a different brand (which I forgot) and these lights are much better.
I'll ask Tommy if he would like to make a small guide in English for you projector-lovers
Grtz. Joy
you can use whatever you want. It's just all custom build
I've chosen the BMW 3-serie projector because it's a relative big projector. Your Polo headlight is HUGE so you don't want a tiny projector. Also BMW projectors have got a chrome cover ring which is perfect to mask the nuts and bolts used on the back of the light.
Volkswagen uses Hella lights. Not to bad but BMW uses a different brand (which I forgot) and these lights are much better.
I'll ask Tommy if he would like to make a small guide in English for you projector-lovers
Grtz. Joy
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http://faq.auto.light.tripod.com/projector-unit.htm
This is a good website. There are 3 projectors photographed. The Hella is what Volkswagen uses. Bosch is BMW.
This is a good website. There are 3 projectors photographed. The Hella is what Volkswagen uses. Bosch is BMW.