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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/330565967601 ... 207wt_1185

Has anyone tried this product?

I am tempted but would love to hear your thoughts if you have installed it..

slimx i think has these

They are from Canada, so probably have LHD beam patterns - though having been on the receiving end of some of these lights, I wonder if some of them have any focussing/pattern

These any good? http://www.mx5parts.co.uk/headlamp-blac ... -2411.html

greenMachine wrote:They are from Canada, so probably have LHD beam patterns - though having been on the receiving end of some of these lights, I wonder if some of them have any focussing/pattern

That's always been my concern with items like these sold from overseas. As most are designed for the North American market, I'm worried the beam pattern is for LHD only.

The UK is RHD so no fear of that stuff on products from there.

Looks amazing.
Cheaper the SE LIGHTS
And look 10x better.

I havent seen anyone else with them so safe to say very rare.

Angel eyes are crap quality very dim.
Not the best projection beam but works fine.

Beam Cannot be adjusted horizontally only vertically

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The uk one says angel eye is led and not ccfl

Ccfl looks better its what bmw uses but requires a new module atleast one a year which is 30bucks.

Led last almost forever but it looks like dots around the headlight.

Ive never heard of lhd and rhd beam being any different personally. Myn dont project the wrong way? And mine was from canada too.

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slimx wrote:Ive never heard of lhd and rhd beam being any different personally. Myn dont project the wrong way? And mine was from canada too.

When you say 'myn' (mine?) are you saying that you sell this sort of thing, sourced from Canada? Or just that you have a set on your car? I can't check your website, it seems to be down atm.

For your information, the driver sits on the left hand side of the car over there, and lots of other places. That means that left hand drive lights are designed differently, at least as far as low beam is concerned, compared to RHD lights. That is, lights for LHD countries will dazzle drivers if used in RHD countries. Unless they are designed with a perfectly flat 'cutoff', in which case they will seriously underperform.

If you are selling these, you might want to do some checking, and let us know the result ...

The beam pattern is entirely different depending on which side of the road your country drives on.

Canada drives on the right and we drive on the left and lighting is designed not to dazzle oncoming drivers. A modern headlamp is designed with a sharp cut off to avoid the dazzle effect. There are many references to lighting at our fingertips.

My guess is that the subject lamp will be poor quality. As for performance the OEM NB projector headlamp is actually a very good performer.

I know that in most other countries they drive on the RIGHT side of the road. I have been outside of Australia several times guys (+ i come from a country like that).

greenMachine
Dont sell these only hvae a set on my car, couldnt find SE lights at the time so got these instead. & Cheaper too!
& About the mistakes, i type quite fast and tend to not look at what im writing (they keyboard or screen) so apologies for the mistakes.

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Mr Morlock
(regarding the lhd and rhd beams) Honestly i never knew that. never heard of it before but makes sense. (thx for the pics deviant made it easier to understand)
(regarding lamp quality) I run xenons it seems fine. The projection is poor.. Not good as OEM but works fine.

oh and
yes the CANADA lights are LHD checked on myn.

Is it the glass lens or the bulb placement inside the housing that determines LHD or RHD?