A blôody candle is better than the TDi 200 lights !!!
So not true, my 200Tdi lights are bloody brilliant.
If you want brighter head lights then try fitting relays to them, electric contacts corrode over time and oxidize, any joints can do the same and over time the lights gradually loose the strength of power getting to them, I know that the old 1985 RRC ended up with only 10.5V at the bulb where the then 20yr old wiring was shot and corroded.
Now I have no less than full alternator output at the bulbs, around 13.6V
Very pleased with this little job and although it took me ages to do I think that I did a good job
You can see the nice little bracket that I made to mount the relays onto, even painted it with 3 coats of paint too
As I forgot to take my pictures and had completed the other side I was sure to get some progress shots of the drivers side.
On this side you can see I have opened up the split conduit and threaded some new wires through to connect to the new relays, but why?
Simply because I had the wiring still from my 300Tdi shape V8 and the wires to the head lamps are thicker on the later model, so to me it made sense that as I was ensuring the highest possible currents going to the lamps I needed to make sure the cables were strong enough to handle the loads and also because the newer connectors were in much better condition too.
As there is no bracket to mount them to this side I will mount the bracket onto the inner wing panel at the back here and it will still look very tidy compared to what it was.
There are future plans afoot that will most likely see a whole new under bonnet fuse board and relay board, but this is proficient enough to give me the best light output for normal driving.
