993 turbo bi-xenon lights
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Hello,
Thanks message, mine has marble grey seats with a blue dash/steering wheel.
I picked the car up from Paragon a few weeks ago and am delighted with it. The car is in amazing condition for an 81,000 mile vehicle. It will certainly be interesting to see how values fare over the next few years.
Am having the wheels properly refurbed at present. Plan to keep it for a few years at least and limit the mileage to ard 3-5k per annum.
Regards
Thanks message, mine has marble grey seats with a blue dash/steering wheel.
I picked the car up from Paragon a few weeks ago and am delighted with it. The car is in amazing condition for an 81,000 mile vehicle. It will certainly be interesting to see how values fare over the next few years.
Am having the wheels properly refurbed at present. Plan to keep it for a few years at least and limit the mileage to ard 3-5k per annum.
Regards
carrerasport
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As Maurice said their is a delay in acheiving full brightness of the hid set up on full beam, but the output is superior to the std bulb as soon as it is ignited so i dont see why we cannot do it.If you fit hid to the low beam, when you switch to std main you wonder if anything has happened! It makes the main beam look totally ineffective. If you upgrade high beam as i have done ,the light output when fully warmed up (circa 5 seconds) is absolutely fantastic (i have factory litronic on low beam)And what you expect on a 170 mile an hour car.People say you cant flash when you have hid on main beam ,i can say the output on a momentary flash is effective because they start up bright and then dull down before reaching full ouptut.Also when using them in a normal manner on and off with the flow of oncoming traffic at night the wam up phase is shortened if the last time they were on was only 30 seconds ago of so ,as in when you drop down to low beam to let a car go by and then go back up to main.
Fitting two ballasts within the headlamp area is a bit of a challenge but it's not impossible ( i am talking outside of the headlamp and full sized ballast boxes) and of the dozen or so conversions i have done none of the owners want to revert to halogen bulbs!
P.s always get 4300k bulbs or 5k for the most effective light output per watt of energy ,anything else is not as bright,but may according to your taste look better!
Fitting two ballasts within the headlamp area is a bit of a challenge but it's not impossible ( i am talking outside of the headlamp and full sized ballast boxes) and of the dozen or so conversions i have done none of the owners want to revert to halogen bulbs!
P.s always get 4300k bulbs or 5k for the most effective light output per watt of energy ,anything else is not as bright,but may according to your taste look better!
The Hids upgrade that Maurice and Carrerasport refer to is well worth fitting. Everyone on this forum would agree that the standard main beam bulb is useless.
I bought kit from HiDS4U (I think) who also supplied several other forum members. Fitting was a little tricky to start with until you realise (a) that the ballasts do not fit into the headlamp; and (b) that you should not drill into the bonnet. The advice I had to was to simply wrap them in bubble wrap and tape them up. I was a little dubious but five years and 20000 miles on they still work perfectly. I think I left a thread at the time to help anyone who was following avoid the mistakes I made.
Kit was about £125 - there was talk about units failing but I haven't had problems and have seen no recent reports here of failures.
As Carrerasport says, no one would go back once you've had the Hids kit. I think it would be positively dangerous to drive on country roads at night at any speed at all with the standard bulbs.
Best of luck.
Michael
I bought kit from HiDS4U (I think) who also supplied several other forum members. Fitting was a little tricky to start with until you realise (a) that the ballasts do not fit into the headlamp; and (b) that you should not drill into the bonnet. The advice I had to was to simply wrap them in bubble wrap and tape them up. I was a little dubious but five years and 20000 miles on they still work perfectly. I think I left a thread at the time to help anyone who was following avoid the mistakes I made.
Kit was about £125 - there was talk about units failing but I haven't had problems and have seen no recent reports here of failures.
As Carrerasport says, no one would go back once you've had the Hids kit. I think it would be positively dangerous to drive on country roads at night at any speed at all with the standard bulbs.
Best of luck.
Michael
i am new to this part of the forum having only recently seen the light(groan!)
my previous 996 and cayman s both had factory litronics on dipped and main,as do linda`s BMW`s.i havent had non xenons for some years,as my night vision is getting poorer as part of the middle ageing process!my local indi JZ machtech whom i have used for years for my last porsches say they no longer fit xenons because of reliability issues.my question is if anyone knows of anwhere that will fit bi-xenons-dipped and main as I am sure i will find night driving a nightmare and I have absolutely zero DIY skills
i have spoken to PCT at autobahn which will fit dipped beam xenons only which i guess is better than nothing,but will that really help or would i be better fitting both dipped and main-if anyone knows of anywhere that does.
thanks
dylan
my previous 996 and cayman s both had factory litronics on dipped and main,as do linda`s BMW`s.i havent had non xenons for some years,as my night vision is getting poorer as part of the middle ageing process!my local indi JZ machtech whom i have used for years for my last porsches say they no longer fit xenons because of reliability issues.my question is if anyone knows of anwhere that will fit bi-xenons-dipped and main as I am sure i will find night driving a nightmare and I have absolutely zero DIY skills
i have spoken to PCT at autobahn which will fit dipped beam xenons only which i guess is better than nothing,but will that really help or would i be better fitting both dipped and main-if anyone knows of anywhere that does.
thanks
dylan
totyfinalist
New member
Dylan , I am not sure why those specialsts have chosen to avoid fitting one or both hid set ups,possibley the quality of the kits was not the best ,there must be a difference between the bosch litronic system and the more compact kits from the far east ) but of the kits we have fitted here (stevebullspecialistcars.co.uk) to many porsche models ,we have had only one or two failures of the ballast box only and only on one side of each car respectively(all replaced under warranty) . I think we are too far away from you but we're happy to fit the kits and the owners seem very happy with the products.
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