Angel Eye Headlights- highbeam??

[heathaurion]

Hey all,

I have a new question about Angel Eye/DRL lights for my first shape '09 Aurion.

I have had these headlights for 2 years and only had them installed for 24hours as the highbeam was USELESS. They have an "eyelid" design inside the headlight and how it works is when you flick the highbeam on instead of a 2nd bulb lighting up, they just tilt the eye lids up to allow more light to escape from the single filament bulb. Well this is totally useless! It makes NO difference to the light on the road, I actually thought they werent working. The only place I can see that they are working is when I park the car faceing a wall and flick the high beams on. The only variance is 2 smalls rectangles of light about 40cm long and 20cm high (the garage or wall that im facing the lights at doesnt get any brighter... just 2 boxes of light above the low beam). Has anyone else had this issue? I am only using normal bulbs as I dont want to buy flash ones if its just going to be a waste of money.

*also if you stand infront of the car and have someone flick the highbeam on.... if you dont look carefully, you dont notice the difference in light change.

Thanks in advance.
Heath

[Defyant]

You get what you pay for........i'm sure ive posted about this crap here a few times.

The design isnt so much the problem as the cheap ***** hid kits they come with and the below par optic lenses they stick in the projectors themselves.

You can upgrade to a quality Phillips 55W kit for about 30-50% improvement. Some ive done say 100% improvement.... but that depends more on if you have the MARS lights or the Thai copies of the Mars or the Indo copies of the Thai of the mars!

Or go to the not so fun extreme of replacing the complete projectors... a good source of quality units is http://www.theretrofitsource.com/ ive installed a bit of his stuff now and its all good news.

At any case they are nasty bits of work and i now only recommend them for city posers who just have to have a dull looking crappy set of angel eyes on their pride and joy :)

I won't endorse them anymore to folks who might need to do any night time distance travelling.

If your stock headlights are out of the car your better off getting a quality set of Angel EYES off Ali or fleebay and install em your self or send me PM and i'll quote you for a proper install.