A question to whomever is willing to answer.
Rissy Wrote:Am I right in saying the inners should be standard model H4656's and the outers should be standard model H4666's?
...so I can look to see what's out on the available market of Ebay and the like.
To Martin.
I doubt Jay will have changed any of the lamps. I can only tell you what I have. I've now changed my bulbs. I don't know yet if this has made any difference in performance of the light I have for driving at night yet.
After I changed them, another owner had a look at what my setup is like. He admitted the same as me that they do not appear to be sitting correctly. Everything is jammed in tight, and bulging at the screw fixing points. Due to the lamps not fitting into the buckets correctly, instead of the screws holding the front metal plate tight against the bucket, with the lamp(s) in between, there is some good length of screw thread on each (about 1cm or more in some cases) where it's clear that the whole lamp is sitting too far forward, not inside the bucket, more just on top of the bucket. Due to this, the screws holding the lamp plates on, and therefore the lamps, are quite long (20mm-25mm long), requiring this length to bridge the gap between the bucket and the plate. due to this setup, this is providing another degree of adjustment by the screws, because too much pull on one side, provides a bigger gap on the other side to bridge and visa versa. Basically it's a balancing act to get the lamp to sit right, for correct alignment without even touching the proper adjusting screws which pull against the springs.
Maybe it's my lack of capability in describing what the issue is, which is making it difficult for me to convey the issue, but regardless, i've had another owner look at mine and say "that's not right", so i'm not on my own at least when suspecting something being not right.
so my basic questions are:
What are those lights you have in your pictures?
Where can I get them?
Do the buckets require modification to make them fit?
I'm interested, because i particularly like the inner ones from your picture, and would like a set for my car, to replace the LED ones I have now. But while I'm at it, i'd like to sort out my outer lights at the same time, to have correctly fitting units with only the designed degrees of adjustment necessary instead of the fangled adjustments i've got necessary right now ON TOP of the designed adjustment necessary.