Facelift Headlights Removal (D3S Bulbs Installation Updated)
Can anyone please help me with this?
Many Thanks!!!
(I know it's silly to start a thread about this, but Ive tried my best, also emailed several websites that sell ecodes but got no reply)
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Updated:
So I just installed those last night. The driver side bulb was relatively easy to install, no need to remove the headlight or any screws.
Just open a rubber cap on the right , remove the stock bulb and install the new one.
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BUT, The passenger side headlights was a disaster...
Without moving the headlight, I was only able to open the rubber cap, not even to remove the stock bulb.
So I tried to take the headlight off.
First I need to remove the center panel by popping up these screws (followed the instruction here on pg 4-5):
http://uspmotorsports.com/downloads/...structions.pdf
Then I removed these screws:
And loosen these two screws (just loosen them, no need to remove), and unplug that big dirty oily cable as well:
As a youtube video for b8 a5 suggests, now I can remove the headlight...
...NO! I don't know what they did for b8.5 headlights, it just didn't want to be removed! I pulled the headlight but I felt it was stuck on something underneath.
After half an hour fighting with it, I gave up.
However, I could pull the headlight a little bit out, which created some room between the filter box and the back of the headlight.
I do have women's little heads so I could remove the oem bulb.
Installing the new bulb was a hassle, in the first time of my life I wished my hands even smaller... Yeah, it took me another half an hour to insert the bulb into the headlight housing, and another half an hour to screw it (I mean twist it clockwise to tighten the bulb, sorry for my bad english) because at that angle it was extremely hard to apply force.
And put everything back, that was it.
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Conclusion:
1. You need to have small hands, very small ones, to install the bulbs without taking the headlights off, especially the passenger side one.
2. Do NOT touch the bulb itself with your fingers, the oil on your fingers could ruin it. I used some white waitress gloves (made for women, of course).
3. My bulb, Philips X-tremeVision, turned on side by side with the stock bulb, made almost no difference at first, except Philips bulb has a bit of greenish (not blue) hue around it, and if look carefully, a bit bright (id say 10%, not 50% as advertised), and a tiny little whiter (I doubt it was 4800k coz there was really a tiny difference).
4. However, I am very satisfied with this result because after driving my car for an hour, the color of the headlights changes a little, becoming whiter. I saw somewhere saying it will become whiter and white after using and I can prove it's sort of true (coz I haven't driven it long enough to conclude). Now, when I get off the car and look at them they are almost perfect matches to the DRLs (a tiny bit warmer than DRLs).
I tried to take a picture to show the difference right after the installation but there really was no difference what so ever on the phone display. So I didnt even bother keeping that picture.
And this is the picture i took after an hour drive:
(Looks nicer than what I see in my naked eyes though)
From the picture it looks like the HID is whiter/bluer than the DRL but in naked eyes DRLs are just more like pure white than the HIDs.
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