Member Since: 13 Feb 2013
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 439
Which xenon bulb please ?
I've just converted my D3 to D4 front end. My D3 had xenon light option so I bought a couple of used D4 lights to use in the conversion, unfortunately these have arrived without bulbs .. Would anyone be good enough to tell me which bulbs I need to buy please, I believe they're different to the D3 ones.
21st Oct 2024 8:39 pm
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 14117
Really Hope this is useful where u can check both D3 and 4
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6746
For xenon:
D3, D2S
D4, D3S
Otherwise the list Gary posted looks good.
21st Oct 2024 8:51 pm
D1SCD
Member Since: 13 Feb 2013
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 439
Thank you both
21st Oct 2024 9:44 pm
Lrstaylor
Member Since: 03 Oct 2018
Location: Kent
Posts: 615
Fit led you will thank me for it iv just done a 500 mile plus trip at night to Cornwall and back......
21st Oct 2024 10:06 pm
D1SCD
Member Since: 13 Feb 2013
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 439
Is it possible to do that to xenon lights ?
21st Oct 2024 10:28 pm
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8223
Yes!- they just plug in like a xenon and you get twice the light for half the cost , don't know about adaptive.It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
22nd Oct 2024 1:21 pm
disco chris
Member Since: 25 Apr 2022
Location: London
Posts: 281
Which LED bulb would you go for for the D3?
22nd Oct 2024 1:32 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13538
Re: Which xenon bulb please ?
D1SCD wrote:
I've just converted my D3 to D4 front end. My D3 had xenon light option so I bought a couple of used D4 lights to use in the conversion, unfortunately these have arrived without bulbs .. Would anyone be good enough to tell me which bulbs I need to buy please, I believe they're different to the D3 ones.
The required bulb is embossed on the clear plastic lens. You can see it when you open the bonnet.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
22nd Oct 2024 1:37 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
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It's worth pointing out, for completeness, that the aftermarket LED replacements for the xenon bulbs aren't usually road legal. Whether that's a concern / will ever be caught is for the reader to decide.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
22nd Oct 2024 1:51 pm
ronald.soak
Member Since: 29 Apr 2008
Location: London
Posts: 533
M3DPO wrote:
Yes!- they just plug in like a xenon and you get twice the light for half the cost , don't know about adaptive.
Like a xenon or like a halogen?.
My understanding is that Xenons, like the D2S and D3S, are driven by ballast boxes which can produce thousands of volts. The bulb connectors are different from those used for halogen bulbs like the H7 type.
Led replacement bulbs are often described using the word Xenon but that refers to the colour of the light output.
22nd Oct 2024 2:14 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13538
The LED xenon replacements have a bloody big load resistor in them, it would seem, as they have a lot of cooling provision - some just a lot of fins, others have active fans. That seems to be necessary as they just use the standard wiring and are connected to the standard ballast.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
22nd Oct 2024 2:23 pm
ronald.soak
Member Since: 29 Apr 2008
Location: London
Posts: 533
Thanks. My understanding is improved. The led lamps that I have seen previously have had halogen bulb type bases and used terms like "Xenon light"
22nd Oct 2024 2:44 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23820
I’m got a pair of these to fit to my 7 year old FFRR, when I eventually get around to it:
Search around as prices did vary considerably when I bought them. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
22nd Oct 2024 4:09 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6746
I, too, like the Osram Nightbreakers.
I have them on the D3 and now during the weekend replaced 11 year old original xenons (Philips long life) on the Volvo V70 with Nightbreakers (D1S) along with new lens glass (plastic). Looks like new again and the lenses don’t break up the light anymore.
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