HID Bulb Replacement (FRUSTRATING)

[sprinks]

if you used d2h bulbs, yeah, 10 months sounds about right in my experience. i recommend switching to the adapters (amp to d2s, someone posted them earlier) so you can run legit d2s bulbs. This may require some DIY to the housing seal (i think i had to drill a hole to run the cable out of, and space gets real tight, i think the straight out ones might be better for our housings than the 90 degree ones).

I did this years back and switched over to osram bulb and i haven't replaced a bulb in 2+ years now (probably due this year or so i suspect). The d2h bulbs are trash all around, even the cheap good ones from TRS or similar. The quality control needed for keeping a xenon bulb lasting just isn't there.

 

[nok513]

Go LED....2 tears in a bucket, fuck it.

 

[GTI Jake]

I just hate these headlights all around, trash design with zero regard for being serviceable.

 

[Daks]

Just to follow up, the drivers side low beam bulb has been out for about a month now.

Sicccccckkkkkk 10ish month life span.

From handmade 4k exhausts welded together by kryptonite to 12 dollar bulbs soldered together by 6 year olds in mainland China. The life of GTI Jake.

 

[GTI Jake]

From handmade 4k exhausts welded together by kryptonite to 12 dollar bulbs soldered together by 6 year olds in mainland China. The life of GTI Jake.

Definitely poor judgement putting junk retrofits on my car.

I knew better, gambled & lost.