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At last ! My Polo 9N has xenon-projectors ! :-)
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 11:42 pm
by Joy
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
Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 7:48 am
by sbp
Hoedje af! Nice job
Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 8:10 pm
by carmadaaron
very nice, looks like an expensive german car then!
Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 10:35 am
by harry
thats ace!!! would tommy like to do mine?
Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 10:59 am
by Joy
Ehrm, don't think so
After we finished we decided this was a one time only project. It took us about 20 hours to complete the headlights and another 2 hours install.
Unfortunately it's just to much work.
Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 1:46 pm
by Scorpio1
Joy wrote:Unfortunately it's just to much work.
But boy, is it worth it!
Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:45 pm
by Joy
True
Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 2:28 pm
by swift
where did you bought the parts for the xenons and how much did it cost?
looks great!
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 11:45 pm
by Joy
@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.
Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 11:50 pm
by swift
@Joy
great! I don't mind hard work if it pays out, and this one seems to be just perfect! Do you think it will suit there any Xenon-system e.g. from VW Passat or any other car?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 9:33 am
by Clawz
*grins* so when are you going into business and getting us to pay you to do this to our cars then?
Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 12:19 pm
by Joy
@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
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:46 am
by carmadaaron
how much in total did it cost you?
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:52 am
by Joy
€ 75,00 for the xenon-set
€ 240,00 for the Polo headlight-units (you don't have to buy them, but if you use the fitted ones you have a problem when stuff doesn't work).
€ 50,00 for nuts and bolts, small stuff etc.
Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:33 pm
by Joy
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.