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First off, Im glad I did it. The best pound for pound improvement I've got out of the Sol. Very quick and easy to fit aswell.
I got these lights off ebay, single beam H4's to use as the main dipped headlights. Will do full beams another day.
They dont seem to blind other driver or anything like that.
Ebay itemUpon arrivalFrom seller 2flage, overall cost £45 with postage and took a week to arrive which didnt seem too bad.
First thing was to check everything went together ok, the instructions seemed clear although in Engrish.
Mine had 3 cables to couple from the bulb to the ballast. Very easy as you could only connect them one way.
Next, take out the original H4 bulbs, there is a small plastic connector which you just pull off. Pull off the rubber part to reveal the bulb.
There is a little metal spring clip holding the bulb it, push it in and pull it toward the centre or the bulb to release.
When the new bulb goes in there will be a gap from where the plastic connector used to be. My HID's came with a rubber bung to help fill that gap. You can see from this picture that i just put it inside the original rubber cap and pulled it though a little way.
Rubber bungOut the bottom of the rubber bung there is 2 holes to allow drainage, i pushed the two spade connectors out of here and into the orignal H4 connector to provide power. You can see the red (+) is on the top connector and black (-) on the right.
Spade connectorsNext place the bulb inside the light, clip in (usually hardwork but it will clip back i promise) and put the rubber cap back over the light.
You should now be able to power up and see the bulb working. Nice aint it!
Next is mount the ballast.
I didnt want to start drilling new holes so i reused existing ones i could find.
On the drivers side I moved this little relay from one hole to the next.
Move relayThe bolt the ballast on to the hole you just freed up.
Drivers side ballastOn the offside i mouted it in a free hole just above what i belive is the power steering fluid cooler. Im not sure if aircon guys can do this??
Offside ballastAt this point I thought i was done until I got some strange things happening when turning the side lights on and off.
This is because the sol uses the dipped H4 bulb on low power when the side light is put on.
To solve this locate the Dip/Dim resistor box and disconnect the wires going into it. They just unplug, nice and easy.
Location of Resistor boxResistor box plugNow you should be finished and working properly. Test well before going out!
In the whole process I never had to cut, break or remove anything OEM so it should be dead easy to put back to stock if required.
The only thing i noticed was the sidelights are now a little dim, but i have bought Ultra bright, white LED bulbs to replace the sidelights. They now have the same colour as the HID's and bright enough to not need the H4's to be on.
FinishedI have used 8000k and it seems like the perfect colour to me. You can see how yellow the main beams now look, even being ultra white halogen so must change them next!
Good luck, if I can help with problems just drop me a PM.
Dan.