Hi again been a few days since I was on the forum and since then I have made a few mods to the headlight setup on my I30.
As stated above I have fitted HID globes and ballast units to both the high and low beam headlight, and now have some information regarding this conversion.
Firstly there was considerable work required to get them fitted correctly and the adjustments to suit my requirements. Firstly as with many cars these days the high beam is adjusted so it will limit the direction of the drivers side light so it does not shine towards the oncoming traffic on a divided road. This is fine for many situations HOWEVER when driving on country road in OZ you get the roo’s coming at you from both sides of the road so you need to see well ahead on the right side as well. Many modern cars do not have separate adjustment of the high and low beams which leads to the situation if the high beam is adjusted to shine down the right side of the road the low beam is way to high. To overcome this problem I removed the right side headlight assembly and removed the screws that hold the high beam reflector and inserted a 1mm washer into the two lower screws to raise the reflector relative to the low beam. See photos attached.
I also made up two separate brackets that hold the two ballast units also photos attached.
There is a problem when fitting the HID H1 globe into the High beam reflector as it is larger than the original globe. It was necessary to use a round file and carefully provide a round side to the plastic section of the reflector that the globe fit through. It was also necessary to cut the wires going to the original H1 globe and attached female spade connectors so power can be supplied to the ballast unit. See photo attached
I will attempt to get some photos of the road at night with both low and high beam shortly. The only negative with fitting the HID globes to the high beam I have discovered is that there is a few seconds warm-up time before they get fully energised so you do not get an instant lighting of the road. As the low beam is always on you never have a problem of driving without lights.
If further details are required please drop me a line and I can go into more details?
Leighton