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  #1
Grimly Curmudgeon
 
Default Re: HID kits.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Muck <muck@rulex.net> saying
something like:

>
>*Sigh* ... It's been a tough week. I did order a dipped beam kit, which
>is the H7 bulb, the H1 bulb is the main beam kit. So that's good.


Where from?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.
 
  #2
Grimly Curmudgeon
 
Default Re: HID kits.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Muck <muck@rulex.net> saying
something like:

>> Where from?
>>

>
>Ebay, item number 300136200489


Ta for that; it's handy to know about this kind of thing.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.
 
  #3
Grimly Curmudgeon
 
Default Re: HID kits.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Muck <muck@rulex.net> saying
something like:

>Yeh. A friend of mine got a kit out of a Merc for nothing.... that would
>be better still.


Thassa point. I must have a peruse round the nearest (only) breaker near
here. Got a huge yard with plenty of late model stuff in. Ideally I'd
need something with detachable lights that could be fitted into a
spotlamp shell.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.
 
  #4
Hog
 
Default Re: HID kits.

Muck wrote:
> In article <bu6sa35o6u7kgjt68qnjnetehd3dns1lqi@4ax.com>,
> grimly4REMOVE@REMOVEgmail.com says...
>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>> drugs began to take hold. I remember Muck <muck@rulex.net> saying
>> something like:
>>
>>> Yeh. A friend of mine got a kit out of a Merc for nothing.... that
>>> would be better still.

>>
>> Thassa point. I must have a peruse round the nearest (only) breaker
>> near here. Got a huge yard with plenty of late model stuff in.
>> Ideally I'd need something with detachable lights that could be
>> fitted into a spotlamp shell.
>>

>
> I got the kit today, bloody fast postage that. Going to have a go at
> fitting the HID to my dipped beam tomorrow. Going to have a glance at
> my headlight relay rating first.


<bated breath>

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Hog
'03 ST4S '96 Bastard12 '89 R100RS '81 XS650 '78 RD400


 
  #5
deadmail@burnt.org.uk
 
Default Re: HID kits.

Muck <muck@rulex.net> wrote in message
<MPG.21184b1c7b27adeb989714@news.individual.net> :

>In article <bu6sa35o6u7kgjt68qnjnetehd3dns1lqi@4ax.com>,
>grimly4REMOVE@REMOVEgmail.com says...
>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>> drugs began to take hold. I remember Muck <muck@rulex.net> saying
>> something like:
>>
>> >Yeh. A friend of mine got a kit out of a Merc for nothing.... that would
>> >be better still.

>>
>> Thassa point. I must have a peruse round the nearest (only) breaker near
>> here. Got a huge yard with plenty of late model stuff in. Ideally I'd
>> need something with detachable lights that could be fitted into a
>> spotlamp shell.
>>

>
>I got the kit today, bloody fast postage that. Going to have a go at
>fitting the HID to my dipped beam tomorrow. Going to have a glance at my
>headlight relay rating first.


Wouldn't worry about that, the HID is (IIRC) normally about 35W vs 55W
for halogen.

>It's got E4 Dot and TUV written on.. does this mean it'll be legal over
>here in the UK?


Probably not, maybe. I would expect that the reflectors needed to be
designed to work with the bulbs.
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K75RT, K1100LT, ZXR750H1, 5TA.

I know I aint doing much,
doing nothing means a lot to me.
 
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