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HID's behind any DOT lens are quite ineffective, and according a friend of mine who works at Osram Slylvania, illegal in the US. You'd be better off spending $250 on E-codes, and upgrading your halogens to Philips, Sylvania or Hella high-output halogens. It will cost you less and put more light on the road than HID's behind DOT lenses.
In the case of Volvo, E-codes ARE the OEM lens....in Europe. The reflectors are the same. Here's the point behind E-codes (also called ECE's): they 1) focus a much higher percentage of the light on the road, and 2) they have a hard horizontal cutoff to shield the eyes of oncoming drivers. (You know how annoying those BMW lights are coming at you? Just imagine if they were behind DOT lenses!)
The current spec (E2 embossed on the lens) are quite good and are available OEM from a number of Volvo sources. You can even get the E2 spec for the 240 from IPD!
Check out this link (loads slow, but worth the wait) from someone who added HID's and Ecodes to his Accord, He documented 9006 and DOT lenses, then should the improvement with H4's behind E-codes. And the photographs hardly begin to tell the story! http://www.geocities.com/jchendds/gallery.html
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David \\ (98 S70 T5SE Black, misc mods (mostly lighting), red calipers) (92 940GLE)
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