[Night life]

Spring is here time to start working on the TT

I already upgrade interior lights and front/side markers to LED huge improvement.

Next on agenda those bloody awful headlamps, of course I read all the posts about adding the E30 BMW headlamps, but honestly that seems to time consuming, there has to be a better solution.

I found these Light Bulbs | | | NH LED 7" ROUND | 69821 | LED GE Lighting

Unfortunately they are the wrong size 7", ours are 5 1/2" I believe. I have seen the LED sealed beams the light looks white and powerful, a much better improvement.

Question is why do they not make the smaller size, I can only find the 5" X 7" square, or the 7" round LED

Unless any other members know something I do not ???

 

[carbuff]

Try a Google search for "5 3/4" headlamps (that is the USA quad size)

I found a few on Fleabay.

5 3/4 LED Headlight | eBay

Careful though, some just have an LED "halo" (like a BMW headlamp)

 

[Night life]

I did more research and I found this

Esprit Lightbulb Upgrade

I'm a little confused, am I to assume the Euro cars are equipped with H3 or H4 reflector headlamps ?

If so why are the US models equip with this Mickey Mouse headlamp from the 1930's ?

If we can get reflector lenses for these cars then problem solved as you can now buy LED headlights

Alibaba.com - Wholesale aluminium alloy high quality led headlights h8 20W cree for Bmw e90, e92,e60

 

[Night life]

Try a Google search for "5 3/4" headlamps (that is the USA quad size)

I found a few on Fleabay.

5 3/4 LED Headlight | eBay

Careful though, some just have an LED "halo" (like a BMW headlamp)

Thank you, that helped , I did search but found nothing, mind you I was looking for 5 1/2":facepalm

Found 5 3/4" replacement head lamps

See thats why I love these community's :coolnana:

 

[Beerman]

I removed the junky Sylvania head lights from my '88 esprit and installed Hella H4's with the 60/55 watt hella bulb. This made a huge improvement in the amount and quality of light showing down the road. The H4 is a great reflector/glass/head light....much, much better than a standard Sylvania/GE or similar head light. I had to slightly modify the LH side low beam mount to accommodate the extra 1/8 inch or so the H4 protrudes. An easy modification.

I didn't install the 100/90 hella bulbs as I'm not positive the stock wiring can handle this amount of draw. LED bulbs of higher output are available for the H4 on ebay and amazon if that's your thing.

 

[Turbo R]

My Esprit already has E-codes so I'm set there, but saw your post and thought this would be a future killer upgrade for another car of mine which takes that larger 7" size. And then I saw...the price! :sad:

Amazon.com: GE 69821 Nighthawk 7" Round LED Headlamp: Automotive

A search on another car forum showed them for a little less each, but even then, that is a lot for a large headlight that is so susceptible to flying rocks, at least on a muscle car.

Roy