TransporterHQ (THQ) Aftermarket Headlights
Assuming you've got standard halogen bulbs coming from THQ then it's a kind of yes and no answer.
Yes, the bulb itself from the HID kit is a straight swap....
....but no, because you have to find somewhere to put the ballast, canbus resistor etc, the stuff you see in the image a few posts ago.
As @dubber36 has said above, it's much easier to fit all that lot tidily when the headlights are out of the vehicle, but it's not impossible to do it when they're in, just more hassle than it needs to be.
Spot on, and it will be far superior with the HID kit rather than the H7 bulbs.
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Folks, I’ve the poor H4,s on my T6 and been looking to upgrade to THQ V2/3,
Does anyone with the V2’s and H7 bulbs notice a big difference at night from the H4’s or is it worth fitting the v3’s with led’s ?.
I’m not technical so the HID kit blows my mind, I’ll looking for the easiest solution to being able to see in the dark without spending £4500.
Does anyone with the V2’s and H7 bulbs notice a big difference at night from the H4’s or is it worth fitting the v3’s with led’s ?.
I’m not technical so the HID kit blows my mind, I’ll looking for the easiest solution to being able to see in the dark without spending £4500.
Here is one of my lights before I fitted it.
You'll see that I've tidied up the original wiring and mounted the ballast under the housing and the other resistor thing to the side.
It saves it all just floating around behind the light.
Hopefully I've shaded the components and where I've mounted below.
There was some sticky pads in with the kit, and I'm sure they would work fine, but I've got some 3M VHB tape which is amazing, so I used that.
Transporterhq (thq) Aftermarket Replacement Headlights
Read on for a few more pages to see the pictures of the 35W 4300k HID kit fitted.
HID is not all that much different to changing the bulb. Everything is pre-wired and it all just plugs together. The only modification you need to make is to cut a hole in the rubber cap in the back of the headlight for the grommet that surrounds the wires to and from the headlight to fit into.
When comparing V1,2 or 3 lights. The dipped projectors and main beam reflectors are the same on all of them. So the conclusions drawn in the linked thread are the same for all versions of the lights.
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I've got a set of H7 nightbreakers and just for my own curiosity I am going to fit one in the drivers side.
This will show a direct comparison against the 35w, 4300k HID in the other side.
I'll post up the pictures once I've done it.
The HID will be so much brighter and a crisper whiter light. The night breakers are good as halogen bulbs go, but can’t get anywhere near the performance of HID.
Heres a couple of comparison shots.
Both pictures have a 35w 4300k HID in the left hand light.
The bittom image is a standard, Osram H7 bulb in the right light.
The top image is an Osram Nighbreaker H7 bulb.
This is only 1.1 meters from the inside of my garage door, but does seem to highlight the difference quite clearly.
I'm not going out in the dark to see what its its actually like on the road, but I suspect the results will be similar.
Both pictures have a 35w 4300k HID in the left hand light.
The bittom image is a standard, Osram H7 bulb in the right light.
The top image is an Osram Nighbreaker H7 bulb.
This is only 1.1 meters from the inside of my garage door, but does seem to highlight the difference quite clearly.
I'm not going out in the dark to see what its its actually like on the road, but I suspect the results will be similar.
I ordered the V2 THQ lights in November and fitted them with a HID kit from HIDs4U (stealth 55W kit) - having used these kits on several other vehicles I have always been impressed with the quality. I subsequently read that there were issues with longevity of the HID's particularly is the lights are on auto (so they fire up when you unlock the van etc.) given that changing the lamps/bulbs on the T6 is not an easy road side proposition and that i had several long road trips planned the advice was to use LED's rather than HID (not strictly legal but harder to identify than HID by the MOT man) so I did my research and opted for the best I could find - Phillips X-treme UltinonLED gen 2 with lumileds LUXEON Altilon led's claiming to be 250% brighter than standard H7's (it does state on the box not for road use) we toured Cornwall in early Feb with these which involved inevitable night time driving (in some bad conditions - remember Ciara and Dennis!) and I was impressed with the performance when compared to the HID's and gave good night time visibility.
As a precaution before setting off I put Wilson in to the local MOT garage for a beam alignment check and was informed they were spot on for adjustment and beam pattern)
I have to say the level of illumination from both the HID and the LED is nowhere near as good as my Volvo (which has original Volvo HID's fitted so can only conclude it must be down to the quality of the projector lens used in the THQ units which appears to be set back within the housing behind the square aperture so the full projector sphere is not being used - anyone else got any comments on that?
Last point the LED's were more expensive at £125 than the HID's at £70 but I didn't fancy removing my bumper one wet and cold night when they pack in and having sausage fingers I know I couldn't possible do them in situ
As a precaution before setting off I put Wilson in to the local MOT garage for a beam alignment check and was informed they were spot on for adjustment and beam pattern)
I have to say the level of illumination from both the HID and the LED is nowhere near as good as my Volvo (which has original Volvo HID's fitted so can only conclude it must be down to the quality of the projector lens used in the THQ units which appears to be set back within the housing behind the square aperture so the full projector sphere is not being used - anyone else got any comments on that?
Last point the LED's were more expensive at £125 than the HID's at £70 but I didn't fancy removing my bumper one wet and cold night when they pack in and having sausage fingers I know I couldn't possible do them in situ
Unfortunately there’s a lot of marketing nonsense about halogen bulbs, well, all bulbs for that matter.
The V2 thread talks a lot about that, but the best thing is that a couple of members have already been through the process of trying many different bulbs before finding that the HIDs work best in the transporter HQ projector lights.
The Philips Ultinon V2 LED bulbs are OK, much better than halogen and a big improvement over H4s, but they are expensive and the HIDs are even better for less money.
ChrisR thanks for that - I agree there is so much information and indeed mis information out there it is not easy to find the best solution easily, I wish I'd compared the two side by side when I was doing the swap over!
I will probably swap them back in the next few weeks of social distancing and will take the opportunity to compare and take a few pics to share, thanks again
I will probably swap them back in the next few weeks of social distancing and will take the opportunity to compare and take a few pics to share, thanks again
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