Headlights

[Mendrax]

Hi,

What are the differencies between those headlights... some seem too have a white and an amber bulb in the indicator, some have two amber bulbs and in addition some seem to have almost transparent indicators and other don't...

[Loren]

This one is Litronics (Xenon) with headlight washers

All the others look like (standard) Halogen - no washers.

[siddharth]

Hi,

What are the differencies between those headlights... some seem too have a white and an amber bulb in the indicator, some have two amber bulbs and in addition some seem to have almost transparent indicators and other don't...

I don't know about rest of the world models, but in the US they initially had amber headlights (early 99). The outside surface had amber blended into the plastic itself near the turn indicator area.

An example :

After that they had clear headlights. By clear what they did is they made the outer surface of the headlights clear and moved the amber inside the headlight assembly (between outside and bulb) and used clear bulbs at the core. This is how most cars have been since then and that's how you can see some of that amber plastic when you look closely at those lamps.

Since then some enterprising people decided to get rid of even that inner amber plastic and simply use amber bulbs or (a step furthur) use clear bulbs that glow amber. Excellent thread covering that here.

OF course, this may/may not be the case with european models ... hope that helps

Sid

Edited May 7, 2006 by siddharth

[wwest]

Hi,

What are the differencies between those headlights... some seem too have a white and an amber bulb in the indicator, some have two amber bulbs and in addition some seem to have almost transparent indicators and other don't...

I don't know about rest of the world models, but in the US they initially had amber headlights (early 99). The outside surface had amber blended into the plastic itself near the turn indicator area.

An example :

After that they had clear headlights. By clear what they did is they made the outer surface of the headlights clear and moved the amber inside the headlight assembly (between outside and bulb) and used clear bulbs at the core. This is how most cars have been since then and that's how you can see some of that amber plastic when you look closely at those lamps.

Since then some enterprising people decided to get rid of even that inner amber plastic and simply use amber bulbs or (a step furthur) use clear bulbs that glow amber. Excellent thread covering that here.

OF course, this may/may not be the case with european models ... hope that helps

Sid

Or....

You can remove the interior amber lense and use an LED "lamp" that is dual "filament", blue/white normally and switches to amber with turn signal impulses.

[Mendrax]

Well I really don't like my headlights because of the amber indicators... I would like to buy new halogen ones but with clear transparent indicators like those :

and not like this one (that is clear but does not seem to be transparent)! :

Edited May 11, 2006 by Mendrax

[911h20]

You can also remove the amber in the headlight as well.