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improving low beam lights on 740 700 1989

All Advice given so far has been excellent. If I could sum things up, I would do what all of the posters said. That being:

1) Purchase H4/H1 drop in replacement lights for your four beam set up. (similar light patterns to the real E-code lights)

2) Buy a high quality bulb such as the SilverStars or Sylvania Cool Blue lights (no...the "cool Blue" lights are not ricer either)

3) Clean up all the wiring - by that I would rewire the head lights with 12 or 10 gauge and install relays to juice up the system - check out Daniel Sterns site for more info on purchasing lights, wiring them and aiming them. Excellent info!!

4) If after rewiring the system with the above upgrade and you find that you do not have enough light and your state allows, you can effectively upgrade the bulbs to high wattage bulbs (ie 90/100) without the risk of starting a fire.

5) As a last resort or to light up the night like the sun you could install a set of quality over the bumper driving lamps to come on with your high beam set up. (this should be easy as you have done a ton of wiring by now with your headlights ;)

6) If this stuff doesn't help then go for laser eye surgery ;) but I hear that that causes your night vision to change in the presence of bright oncoming lights of other vehicles.

Just my 2 cents. Hope it helps,

Tim






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