Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

superairborne wrote:

Skillie wrote:Hi Superairborne

Please tell me more about the Xenon lights upgrade. I'm considering this upgrade as an alternative to spotlights. Or rather maybe to delay the spotlights a bit and do this sooner...

The best price I found was R1800 DIY.

Is the origonal light casings and reflectors compatable with Xenon Lights?

Skillie, they don't replace casings or reflectors. They remove the normal light bulb, place a Xenon replacement in, connect the original bulb socket to the Xenon control box and connect the Xenon control box socket to the new Xenon bulb. The Xenon control box (balast) is then connected to the battery. Each light has its own control box. The whole procedure took about 20min.

I live in Windhoek, Namibia. Here's a guy who does the installation and gives a 1yr guarantee. But I know the DIY kits are available on http://www.autostyle.co.za for about R1800.

These Xenon installs are kind of fast and cheap. There is a good reason cars that come with Xenon bulbs standard have custom reflectors and leveling stuff for them. Just throwing Xenon bulbs into standard reflectors is illegal in many countries as without the leveling they annoy other drivers and are considered dangerous.

Putting Xenon bulbs into spotlights is a completely different matter and a much better idea.

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Postby superairborne » Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:53 am
Yesterday I had the headlights on my Gen3 converted from halogen lights to xenon HID lights. It cost me 1500 bucks installed and I'm really impressed.

My wife's Audi came with factory fitted xenon lights and I can say that the Paj's new aftermarket xenons are comparable.

Hi Sup....

I find this mod very interesting. Can you please confirm how your headlight deflection (high beam and low beam) works with the Xenox bulbs. Are they also double filaments? I was told this is not possible because the delay to get a xenon globe on is not acceptable when you want to quickly dim your lights. I think BMW overcame this by using one filament for both high and low beam but with a small mechanical shield blocking off the top of the beam so only the lower part of the beam remains visible when low beam is selected.

What are the actual facts in your case?

I had some aluminium plate and some reflector tape left from my trailer and thought I might as well use it. So just cut the aluminium to fit behind the nudge bar cut out and stuck the reflector tape on the correct place, then stuck it behind with some double sided tape.