facelift headlights in a pre-facelift car

[h8cak]

As the title says i have a pair of facelift headlights im gonna fit to my 98 S4. Apart from the trimming of the wing is there anything else i need to modify to get them to fit?

Cheers

[Peakz]

You need to check Rolskii's posts on this subject, he's a bright spark that lad!

[BRETTCOLLINS]

Have done this, fitted bi-xenon after market HIDs at the same time...

[Siena]

Electrically, just the plugs from a facelift car are required.

You'll need to cut yours off, and solder the replacements on, using heatshrink to insulate them. The colour codes of the wires are the same, so you can't go wrong.

[h8cak]

Can the plugs be bought or is it a scrap yard job?

[S4]

what are you using oem Xenon, or a non Xenon facelift lamp. I see that some people just use a standard any model facelift lamp and just put a Xenon kit in it, dip and main... looks good.

Darren

[h8cak]

think they are standard. non xenon. can u not just put the xenon fron the old lights in?

[Siena]

I got my plugs from a junkyard, just hacked them off a 2000-spec car.

Cost me £1.00 for both sides. The plugs are the same for all 1-piece, HID and standard units.

[h8cak]

Thought so. Thanks for your input Siena. Great help

[rolskii]

Plugs are same .. couple of colours are diff. but it shouldnt phase u ...
If you go proper xenons.. you'll need the ballasts, internal wiring for xenons(to ballasts), level motors if u dont have, aslo you have to get the polarity for the level motors the correct way ... or 1 goes up and other will go down(if crossed) ..

[h8cak]

Rolskii u bugger!! you made it sound complicated

[rolskii]

I got oem ballasts, they fit in the h/light underneath, so u need the loom inside which will come with the xenon headlights, but not halogens, so u need to decide how your gonna go... aftermarket xenons or oem ...? level motors ... self explanatory really ... look at ETKA parts manual and reference what you have and dont ... hth

[h8cak]

Cant i just take the parts i dont have from the pre facelift lights and fit them to the facelift lights?

[S4]

No dont think can, a lot of people just go for standard lights and use aftermarket Xenon kits... there is some nice stuff about.

Darren

[rolskii]

No pre dont do post ...