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56 minutes ago, Scott1967 said:

 

The first is for “xenon hid”. Does it work for LED as well?

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I'm not thinking those resistors are the best option given the heat and amount of plastic.

 

Think I will look for other bulbs. Have you left the bulbs in with the error displaying?

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14 minutes ago, phil27 said:

I'm not thinking those resistors are the best option given the heat and amount of plastic.

 

Think I will look for other bulbs. Have you left the bulbs in with the error displaying?

 

Do we really know how much heating is developed?

 

Some thoughts:

 

- I read somewhere that LED produce less heat than halogen bulbs (because of the wattage). Xenon produce more heats. 

 

-I thought that they produce these items with these plastic boxes, they should be safe. 

 

Yes, I left them on. The only thing annoying is the red sign and the fact that I have to confirm the error when I fire the engine. 

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Ditto I left them in too 

as I very rarely use the high beam 

I’ll fit the resistor or the decoder 

pas cito mentioned the decoder is in a plastic case so theoretically it cannot generate too much heat 

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Now tried both types of resistors neither worked for me. Going to look into alternative bulbs. Had to go back to standard for the high beams for now the error was annoying me to much.

 

Shame as everything was matching nicely. Still happy with the ones that are working though 🙂

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I’m sorry to hear that. 

Mom so pleased that my error has gone by itself though 😅

 

if you have got a chance, you could try to clear the error with the computer they use to code (sorry, I don’t remember the name of it😭). 

 

Cheers,

Andrea

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I've got fully working high-beams but flickering when cold or starting dipped.

 

What are people's choices when it comes to the best halogens? I've tried the Phillips racing vision (+150% ones) and they're OK. With the nighteyes I found they were improved reflection wise, but not actual throw/distance.

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12 minutes ago, mike3105 said:

I've got fully working high-beams but flickering when cold or starting dipped.

 

What are people's choices when it comes to the best halogens? I've tried the Phillips racing vision (+150% ones) and they're OK. With the nighteyes I found they were improved reflection wise, but not actual throw/distance.

 

It seems that in cold weather the LED’s behaves oddly, but so fa I did not experienced anything. 

 

Before i I did try the Philips you mentioned and I found them a good step forward versus the “standard” halogen, but I found the LED’s completely another world

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hi Cito. I believe that the 6000K or 6500K light frequency emitted by super white LEDs gets absorbed easier at night, the bluer the light, the shorter the reflective range picked up by our eyes. Tungsten Halogen is between 3000K and 4000K and is multi-frequency, it can be seen at night at longer reflective distances, think of the old KC Daylighters and Cibie Bi Oscars, yellow light but you could dazzle the moon with them.

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Finally I now have high beam with no warnings on the dash 

i had to change from the https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F183237161195

as I got “Check Left high beam and Check Right High beam”warnings 

to these 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F152835370507

No warnings 

 

 

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9 hours ago, Scott1967 said:

Finally I now have high beam with no warnings on the dash 

i had to change from the https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F183237161195

as I got “Check Left high beam and Check Right High beam”warnings 

to these 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F152835370507

No warnings 

 

 

Nice one I will have to give these ago. Hopefully they will work for me as well.

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