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| Jul 24, 2018 06:19AM | Anne890 |
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I had a light burn out and fog the inside of the light house, I attached a small wad of cloth to the end of a stick, inserted it through the light bulb hole and was able to wipe away the smoke film. You could also buy a new or used light house. By the way if you polish the outside of a light house, you will remove the UV protective coating, and it will quickly become frosted looking and yellow, Duplicolor in the US makes a UV headlight coating to prevent this after polishing, it so far has lasted over a year on my light house's. Also make sure you don't touch the bulb glass with your fingers, as the oil will shorten the life of the bulbs.
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I write to see if you can help me solve the problem of my Mini Cooper.
I bought a 1st generation Mini Cooper R50, manufactured in January 2003, which comes with auto-leveling front xenon headlights with headlight washers: they use H9 bulb for the main beam and xenon bulbs D2-R for the low beam.When I bought the car I saw that one of the headlights was somewhat opaque and illuminated differently from the other, but I thought that with a polish it would be enough to make it look good. I drive a little One day when doing it at night is not normal, I realized that the car's low beam does not illuminate enough, which worries me for safety. I started to review this problem to solve it.
First of all, I took the car to a workshop who told me that he believed that the bulb was fused but that these types of lights do not fuse but illuminate a different tone and less. It did not seem right to me and I took the car to the garage of the house, the BMW. There they told me that the best solution was to change the whole more opaque lighthouse and tb ballast, which amounted to 1,500 euros. Taking into account the age of the car, they advised me in the first place to polish the lighthouse, to see how much I earned and then evaluate. I polished the lighthouse and the profit was minimal.
Take the car to two more workshops to see their opinion on the problem and both indicated that they do not have spare parts for xenon lights so they could not assess the problem well, they are not specialists in it.
Tired of going from one place to another with the car and not having anything clear, a familiar electrician pretty handy, he offered me to check the car and assess the problem. He disassembled the two xenon bulbs of the car and exchanged lighthouses, about 2 meters away illuminate 450 and the other about 700 lumens. Curiously it illuminates more lumens the bulb that is in the opaque focus but its color is more yellow and the other gives a whiter light. One of the bulbs indicates the date of 2015 and the other does not indicate anything. According to the criterion of this relative:
- The xenon bulbs seems to be good both, both look and the ballasts work well aunq they may have lost power over the years. What is clear is that they are different color or temperature so I recommend buying a couple of new bulbs and change them so that both are the same color and being new may illuminate something else.
- The problem of the opacity of the headlight is something of the interior, not of the external glass. He could not access the interior so he can not do more.
- I recommend to take a workshop to regulate the height of the headlights pq are wrong (this car has no lever for adjustment, must be done with the screws of the headlights). As this had a minimal cost, the next day I requested an appointment in a workshop to be regulated, what is my surprise when doing the measurement with the machine they indicate that they are correct and in any case a high pelim but if they were lowered they would light less. What I did notice was that they made the measurement about 30 cm from the lighthouse when I think they should have done it in the longer range, for example 10 meters to see the lighting power of the headlights and their deviation.
In these links you can see some pictures where they will see the correct light, the opaque one and its power of illumination in case it helps them to value the problem:
https://ibb.co/kgnj1y
https://ibb.co/n7cj1y
https://ibb.co/i3n6EJ
What do you think of the problem? Changing the bulbs will be solved? Do you see the correct headlight setting?What do you think of doing?
Thanks in advance.
I bought a 1st generation Mini Cooper R50, manufactured in January 2003, which comes with auto-leveling front xenon headlights with headlight washers: they use H9 bulb for the main beam and xenon bulbs D2-R for the low beam.When I bought the car I saw that one of the headlights was somewhat opaque and illuminated differently from the other, but I thought that with a polish it would be enough to make it look good. I drive a little One day when doing it at night is not normal, I realized that the car's low beam does not illuminate enough, which worries me for safety. I started to review this problem to solve it.
First of all, I took the car to a workshop who told me that he believed that the bulb was fused but that these types of lights do not fuse but illuminate a different tone and less. It did not seem right to me and I took the car to the garage of the house, the BMW. There they told me that the best solution was to change the whole more opaque lighthouse and tb ballast, which amounted to 1,500 euros. Taking into account the age of the car, they advised me in the first place to polish the lighthouse, to see how much I earned and then evaluate. I polished the lighthouse and the profit was minimal.
Take the car to two more workshops to see their opinion on the problem and both indicated that they do not have spare parts for xenon lights so they could not assess the problem well, they are not specialists in it.
Tired of going from one place to another with the car and not having anything clear, a familiar electrician pretty handy, he offered me to check the car and assess the problem. He disassembled the two xenon bulbs of the car and exchanged lighthouses, about 2 meters away illuminate 450 and the other about 700 lumens. Curiously it illuminates more lumens the bulb that is in the opaque focus but its color is more yellow and the other gives a whiter light. One of the bulbs indicates the date of 2015 and the other does not indicate anything. According to the criterion of this relative:
- The xenon bulbs seems to be good both, both look and the ballasts work well aunq they may have lost power over the years. What is clear is that they are different color or temperature so I recommend buying a couple of new bulbs and change them so that both are the same color and being new may illuminate something else.
- The problem of the opacity of the headlight is something of the interior, not of the external glass. He could not access the interior so he can not do more.
- I recommend to take a workshop to regulate the height of the headlights pq are wrong (this car has no lever for adjustment, must be done with the screws of the headlights). As this had a minimal cost, the next day I requested an appointment in a workshop to be regulated, what is my surprise when doing the measurement with the machine they indicate that they are correct and in any case a high pelim but if they were lowered they would light less. What I did notice was that they made the measurement about 30 cm from the lighthouse when I think they should have done it in the longer range, for example 10 meters to see the lighting power of the headlights and their deviation.
In these links you can see some pictures where they will see the correct light, the opaque one and its power of illumination in case it helps them to value the problem:
https://ibb.co/kgnj1y
https://ibb.co/n7cj1y
https://ibb.co/i3n6EJ
What do you think of the problem? Changing the bulbs will be solved? Do you see the correct headlight setting?What do you think of doing?
Thanks in advance.
