Upgrading From Sealed Beam

[Guest tom2b]

Im quite happy with the appearance of my robinhood standard headlights but the selaed beam is pretty crap. Whats the best way to upgrade them to halogen?

[NeilD]

I looked into this

 

Will post a link when I get home - replacement halogen units approx £29

[Guest timswait]

Europa Motor Spares Europa Sell the reflector units you need for (I think) about £10 each. These fit straight into your existing pods and will take any standard H4 halogen bulb. Unfortunately their online shop seems a bit rubbish (maybe it's Firefox....) and I can't find them on it. Best to phone them, they do sell them, I bought a replacement one from them a couple of weeks ago when I bashed mine with a spanner!

[Guest Battery Bill]

Or if you shop around at Harrogate (Or any show) you will get them for £8 each

[Guest peter2b2002]

Or if you shop around at Harrogate (Or any show) you will get them for £8 each

I got mine from Horrogate last year complete with H5 bulbs £25 make shure you get the ones for UK driving as there were some that dipped the wrong way for sale there

pete2b

[Guest tom2b]

Think ill give europa a go, thanks

 

Im at work and want to order them now but cant remember what size i need, anyone know off hand?

[Guest salty_monk]

Standard RH ones take 7" units.

 

To give you another idea... I bought the 5" black units off premier wiring http://www.premierwiring.co.uk/ for 60 odd quid complete with Halogen bulbs & then sold my original RH ones for around 35 quid on Ebay complete with sealed beams....

 

Cost is about the same but you get better lights out of it. Chrome on the RH ones doesn't last so long & then lense retention system rusts & breaks in my experience...

 

Dan

[Grim]

Europa Motor Spares...

Unfortunately their online shop seems a bit rubbish (maybe it's Firefox....) and I can't find them on it.

 

Yep, it's firefox

[Guest warwick7735]

Hi

 

As they are basically mini units why don't you get a halogen conversion kit costs £11.99. or you can get some pretty nifty looking angel eye ones (look like the later BMW which light up around the edge) £49.95/pr

 

Warwick

[Guest turbo]

i got the europa ones with side light about £8 each and are a very bright light

[Guest klaxon]

I picked up a pair at Newark. Made in India but seemed ok. They are a bit flatter faced than the sealed beams. they came with side-light bulb holders and all bulbs. £19.50/pair. I cant remember the vendor's name but he might be at Harrogate.

[Guest salty_monk]

All of them seem to be flatter faced than the sealed beams...

[Guest tom2b]

oh the choices, dan how do you find the halogen lamps you bought?

[Guest salty_monk]

I've had all 3... 7"RH with sealed Beams, 7" RH with Halogen upgrade & now the 5" Halogen's.

 

Quality is better on the 5" halogens than on the RH ones, light spread etc is about the same with either,

 

Sir Chris also runs the 5" ones with no problems.

 

If I had to choose again I'd go with the black 5" ones, they look good on the car. There are 5" chrome ones around too I think but really you need to buy chrome over brass otherwise they will rust eventually.

 

With the black ones at least you can rub them down & respray them if ever necessary...

 

Dan