yours has xenon dipped and mains Mat, when switch to mains there's a little flap that moves in the xenon enclosure ....the separate halogen mains are basically only for flashing other road users.. ... - .- -.




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AH I see, thanks! Good job I didn't bother sticking some more powerful bulbs in there then - I might stick some LEDs in instead in that case NW060

"Red Shed" - 1982 Series 3 88" County Station Wagon
"Spirit of Great Britain" - Rolls Royce Meteor V12 engine
ZG875 - Westland Sea King (cockpit section)
"Carly Rae Jeepsen" - 2006 Jeep Commander 5.7 Hemi
"Pride Of The Road" - 1/4-scale Marshall traction engine - sold
"Georgina" - 2000 Discovery 2 TD5 ES - sold
"Windsor" - 2005 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 - dead

if you have an iidtool you could set the separate mains as drls... ... - .- -.




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Now that is an interesting idea - presumably this is after replacing them with a much dimmer LED bulb so I dont blind oncoming cars?

As I normally drive with dipped beams on all the time, I'm wondering actually if I could install some hugely powerful spotlight bulbs in there rather than fitting a set of external spot/driving lights for late night country road driving NW060

"Red Shed" - 1982 Series 3 88" County Station Wagon
"Spirit of Great Britain" - Rolls Royce Meteor V12 engine
ZG875 - Westland Sea King (cockpit section)
"Carly Rae Jeepsen" - 2006 Jeep Commander 5.7 Hemi
"Pride Of The Road" - 1/4-scale Marshall traction engine - sold
"Georgina" - 2000 Discovery 2 TD5 ES - sold
"Windsor" - 2005 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 - dead

the iidtool will only give you 2 settings for the drl/mains , 40% and 60% so you wont dazzle on coming traffic and you can still 'flash'.. ... - .- -.




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Bit of a bump here - just found this awesome tutorial online on changing the sidelight bulbs - after reading lots of internet articles about removing headlights or needing the hands of a 4 year old, it turns out that the sidelights themselves (on prefacelift cars at least) are a doddle to remove!

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"Red Shed" - 1982 Series 3 88" County Station Wagon
"Spirit of Great Britain" - Rolls Royce Meteor V12 engine
ZG875 - Westland Sea King (cockpit section)
"Carly Rae Jeepsen" - 2006 Jeep Commander 5.7 Hemi
"Pride Of The Road" - 1/4-scale Marshall traction engine - sold
"Georgina" - 2000 Discovery 2 TD5 ES - sold
"Windsor" - 2005 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 - dead

Powerful uk have a habit of making things look easy, probably because they have dismantled the bits and re-assembled previously. The side lights do indeed come off reasonably easily provide the plastic wing nuts holding them in place are not corroded onto the screw threads, which they inevitably are. Then they are "difficult".

I obviously struck lucky as mine was a 10 minute job earlier
Though on the driver's side it was still a huge faff as the intake pipe coming out of the wing restricts access to the plastic nut to just a fingertips hold on it. What a great bit of packaging...  NW060

"Red Shed" - 1982 Series 3 88" County Station Wagon
"Spirit of Great Britain" - Rolls Royce Meteor V12 engine
ZG875 - Westland Sea King (cockpit section)
"Carly Rae Jeepsen" - 2006 Jeep Commander 5.7 Hemi
"Pride Of The Road" - 1/4-scale Marshall traction engine - sold
"Georgina" - 2000 Discovery 2 TD5 ES - sold
"Windsor" - 2005 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 - dead

Dean wrote:

The same bulbs don't physically fit in the reversing light and no alternative LED seams to be available unless you are able to fabricate something with small LED panels - various threads on the subject else where.

Not tried the indicators though, so don't know about them.

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Yes those H6 bulbs will fit provided the pins are correct. No indication of Wattage though. If you decide to try them it will be interesting to see the results.

Right, I tried these tonight...

They fit, only just, I think the tip is pushed up against the lens.
When looking at the back of the car they give a lovely white light and visually look great
However, they give off a worse spread of light and, whilst I didn't think it was possible to be worse than the original L322 reversing lights, they definitely are!!!

Sorry everyone, but from my experience these are not the simple solution we are all looking for 😥 2006 FFRR TDV8 Vogue
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