Re: Relays on your lights

["Mike Weiler" <lerb@redrose.net>]

Where can you get these headlights and why do they need wire upgrades? How
much do they cost, and are they the type that take a replacement bulb?

sorry for all the Questions :)
- -----Original Message-----
From: Zach Vrooman <zach@discover-net.net>
To: Michael Helms <tudor@tvo.org>
Cc: scirocco mail list <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: Relays on your lights


>I thought the headlights already had relays? There's two little boxes
>behind each headlight that sure look like relays. Perhaps I'm mistaken?
>
>zach
>84 8v
>86 8v
>
>----------
>> From: Michael Helms <tudor@tvo.org>
>> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>> Subject: Relays on your lights
>> Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 7:21 PM
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I just installed a pair of relays for my headlights ... I'm running the
>> quartz halogen conversions from Bosch, and they suck too much power for
>> the stock wires and switch ... anyways, with the relays in place, they
>are
>> BRIGHT!  I am running the regular H4 bulbs (which I think are 55 and 75
>> watts), and 100 watt H1's for the high beams.
>>
>> I was going to upgrade to a brighter H4 for the low beams ... definitely
>> no need to with the relays in place now.  Oh, and another thing ... even
>> with the high beams on, rear window defogger, fan on full, and radio on -
>> I can't drop the voltmeter below 12 volts now.  seems that those relays
>> did something to make the electrical system happy.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- Michael Helms
>>
>> '81 Scirocco - the fixer-upper
>> '86 Scirocco - the daily driver
>>
>> Web Site:  http://www.continuum.org/helms
>>
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