996 light upgrade
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Welcome Kevin!
For the pre-facelift cars you can get a retrofit Porsche Litronic (Xenon) kit but it is very expensive (£1900+). They didn't do a retrofit kit for the facelift model, so most people tend tto fit aftermarket HID kits if they want more light, at a cost of £100-ish.
For the pre-facelift cars you can get a retrofit Porsche Litronic (Xenon) kit but it is very expensive (£1900+). They didn't do a retrofit kit for the facelift model, so most people tend tto fit aftermarket HID kits if they want more light, at a cost of £100-ish.
The Model Year 2002 facelift brought a lot of major changes to the 996. Theck out the 'Model History' link in this post: http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=269468
Started looking into this last night.
It seems that the facelift has Xenon lights which is important to me from an aesthetic point of view. If I'm going to buy a car that's already a few years old and keep it a year or so, I want it to look quite modern.
Looking around the difference between a 996 pre and post facelift is about £5k. Would that seem right to you?
It seems that the facelift has Xenon lights which is important to me from an aesthetic point of view. If I'm going to buy a car that's already a few years old and keep it a year or so, I want it to look quite modern.
Looking around the difference between a 996 pre and post facelift is about £5k. Would that seem right to you?
watlina
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The face-lift cars don't have Bi-Xenons Option as standard (well only the Turbo) it was a £620 option (P74). A quick visual way to tell is to look for the headlight washers only the Bi-Xenons have the washers. You'll see a round crhome disc on the inner-upper area this is where the washers pop-up
996 currently start around the £14.5 mark. The facelift cars start around £18.5K for high mileage examples but your really looking at £20K for the start of any the decent.
I'm thinking about buying a 996 and was wondering if there is a light upgrade available to Xenons on the front?
hi kevin
as richard says,you can get a retro xenon type kit fitted on facelift as i had done on my 2004model(53c4)by camtune at godalming
however it threw up all kinds of problems as it took a far greater strain on the electrics.it was so frustrating to get it sorted i ended up selling it.my advice to you is to get one already with the chrome washer litronics as it is a factory fit and so dosent usually give probs-well worth looking out for one as i found the standard lights very poor after my m3 bmw xenons
hi kevin
as richard says,you can get a retro xenon type kit fitted on facelift as i had done on my 2004model(53c4)by camtune at godalming
however it threw up all kinds of problems as it took a far greater strain on the electrics.it was so frustrating to get it sorted i ended up selling it.my advice to you is to get one already with the chrome washer litronics as it is a factory fit and so dosent usually give probs-well worth looking out for one as i found the standard lights very poor after my m3 bmw xenons
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