Well, the new HID xenon headlamps (from 9Meister) are in. I’d describe the process in loving detail but it’s been done very well before here:
http://hidforum.com/diy/993/diy.php
, so I shan’t repeat history. I’d just add a few riders:
The xenon bulb didn’t fit into the hole left by the halogen bulb; the aperture is about 1mm too small. This may be a issue for 993s made before September 1995. I was about to send the kit back when I realised all was not lost. It’s easily widened by a few minutes’ gentle use of a modeller’s half-round file, with no impact on the reversibility of the operation. The halogen will still fit.
There’s very little spare room behind the near (passenger) side headlamp housing, so tidiness of cabling and where you put the igniter are vital.
The scariest part was drilling a hole in the back of the flap on the back of the housing. This is irreversible.
Nothing else needed to change.
The operation took an hour per side, all told.
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They are BRIGHT!
Migration info. Legacy thread was 14466
http://hidforum.com/diy/993/diy.php
, so I shan’t repeat history. I’d just add a few riders:
The xenon bulb didn’t fit into the hole left by the halogen bulb; the aperture is about 1mm too small. This may be a issue for 993s made before September 1995. I was about to send the kit back when I realised all was not lost. It’s easily widened by a few minutes’ gentle use of a modeller’s half-round file, with no impact on the reversibility of the operation. The halogen will still fit.
There’s very little spare room behind the near (passenger) side headlamp housing, so tidiness of cabling and where you put the igniter are vital.
The scariest part was drilling a hole in the back of the flap on the back of the housing. This is irreversible.
Nothing else needed to change.
The operation took an hour per side, all told.
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They are BRIGHT!
Migration info. Legacy thread was 14466
