Hi! I tried several variants of headlights and stopped on Hella. It's used, but enlightens the way much better than new Autopal, Neolite and all this...
Pros: enlightens the way much better
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I've just done a halogen to Golf R style projector headlight swap on my 2010 GTI here in Australia. I am very happy with the headlights overall. My headlights are Eagle Eye brand and look exactly the same as the Golf R silver housings. I was pleasantly surprised to know that fitment was great, quality also looks great, plugs and wiring were concealed and neat, and the light output is much better than the factory halogens.
Pros: great fitment, great quality
Cons: none
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Basically I started with a brand new set of MK5-look Hella lamps, and cut them up to fit actual D2S factory MK5 Bi-Xenon projectors in them, and wired it all with theretrofitsource.com bulbs and ballasts. These are as nice as can be, and really have tremendous and clean light output.
Pros: tremendous and clean light output
Initial impressions are great. The color temperature is clearly whiter and brighter. Even just looking at the projectors with the lights on yields a much cleaner look. Output on the road is definitely whiter than the OEM's, but still admittedly a bit "warmer" than what I expected - but the bulbs are still burning in.
Pros: whiter and brighter, cleaner look
Cons: bit warmer
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
So, I built these headlights a couple years ago for my R32. Basically I started with a brand new set of MK5-look Hella lamps, and cut them up to fit actual D2S factory MK5 Bi-Xenon projectors in them, and wired it all with theretrofitsource.com bulbs and ballasts. These are as nice as can be, and really have tremendous and clean light output.
Pros: tremendous and clean light
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Got the Matrix LED headlights and can say they are awesome. Good light all around and those automatic high beams are superb.
Pros: good light, automatic high beams
Vehicle:
Audi A6
Some 30 year old Hella Smileys for my 448k mile car really seemed to clean things up.
Pros: cleaned things up
Vehicle:
BMW
Mileage: 448000 km
The quality of Depo headlights is generally considered to be not bad (they are EU-certified), but not the best (like for instance Hella).
Pros: EU-certified
Cons: not the best
The headlights (non-hid) are quite possibly the worst design ever made.
Cons: worst design ever made
agreed, I bought Jetta/Vento ecodes from BFI (DJ auto, same as ebay) and the wiring that came with them was absolute garbage, the wires were so thin and and they were way too long so they had to be squished at an angle to fit between the headlight harness and the plug, which in turn caused the lights to be dim, and if you wiggle the harness with the lights on they'd get brighter. The splice-connectors for the city lights are flat out terrible and good luck trying to use them in a cramped engine bay without skinning your knuckles or having to do 2 or 3 tries to get them in place Also the beam adjusters didn't work right out of the box, one unit was slamming around in the "case" if you will, since the adjuster clip thing wasn't holding onto it. Also which was an even bigger issue was the prongs from the wires inside of the headlight's plug were wobbly right from the start. Trying to plug them in pushed some right out.. Never again.
Cons: absolute garbage, lights dim
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Jetta
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