Koito H4 kits CHEAP!!!!!

[JohnS]

e30 Bottlecaps, you can't give'em away 😁  Next weekend.  Cars & Coffee!

[Arman]

I just bought my assembly. $24.83 w/ free local pick up

[Oakland Jeff]

Question for all you brighter headlight happy campers: my ‘02 is a 1975. I do NOT need to use the wiring harness at all and it won’t hurt my headlight switch, correct?

Does using the new harness really make the lights brighter? Enough to be worth it?

[mike472]

You don’t need the harness for a 75. It might make your lights a little brighter but the wiring in the car now is good enough. If you had a 73 or earlier I’d say use it. 

['76mintgrün'02]

32 minutes ago, Oakland Jeff said:

Does using the new harness really make the lights brighter? Enough to be worth it?

 

I did not notice enough of a difference for it to be worth adding the extra wiring.  I put very little effort into trying to see a difference between them when I did the test, so I don't really know how big of a difference the wiring would make.  It's already a big enough improvement to make me happy and keeping things simple makes me happy too.  So that's what I'm going to do.

 

I did cleanup the terminal ends when I swapped them.  I'm wondering about cleaning the contacts in my old relays now, to see if that helps more juice get through.

[Oakland Jeff]

Thanks you guys. Simple is good

[mike472]

Don’t try to open up relays to clean them. Just buy three new ones. They’re cheap enough. That’s a good preventative maintenance thing. Especially in 50 year old cars 

[JohnS]

I took a look at the old Hella H4s that I removed and replaced with the Koitos.  I was surprised that they have the little city lights in them.  They are in pretty good shape for having been on my car for almost 38 years.  I confirmed that the H4 bulbs in the Hellas are the same 60/55W as the Koito bulbs.  

 

 

 

 

Edited April 11 by JohnS

['76mintgrün'02]

8 hours ago, mike472 said:

Don’t try to open up relays to clean them. Just buy three new ones. They’re cheap enough. That’s a good preventative maintenance thing. Especially in 50 year old cars 

 

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I don't subscribe to the throw-away mentality.

 

Opening them is not difficult.  I took the covers off of these to compare the guts and weighed them just for kicks.

 

 

My '76 came with the plastic capped relays like the one on the left, but I replaced them with the metal style sitting next to it.  The yellow one next to that came from an e21 and the one on the far right is the five prong style. 

 

It took some scrounging at the junkyard to find a five prong relay that was made in GERMANY to replace the Spanish one, but now I have a matched set.  

 

 

I even gave them a little black-wash to bring out the lettering.   

 

 

I've got plenty of spares if one of them craps out.  

Tom 

[Fortlauderdalian]

Anyone have a good link for a place to buy?

[RoccoGilroy]

Check eBay. Might not be as cheap but it’s still a deal under $100. I bought that first set on eBay before looking around and I think I paid like $50. 

[JohnS]

One of my extra Koito sets is spoken for (thx yeewiz).  I'll be at the "Neue Klasse and Kaffee" in Los Gatos tomorrow morning.

$27 Last one...SOLD. lasted about 60 seconds yesterday. 🙂 Was cool to hang out with the local '02 crew again.  Their cars are so nice that it's very inspiring.  Was stoked to be able to see the ex Bob Murphy Alpina A4 car in person.  Stupid that I didn't take any pictures.  Next time...

 

 

Edited April 21 by JohnS

[mmaaaaaxx]

Waiting on some parts for fuel and electrical systems, so decided to take apart my headlight housing to refresh them and finally install the Koitos that I scored thanks to this thread. I didn’t see anyone bring this up, but are the three mounting locator tabs on the supposed to line up with the original notches in housings? I tried to orient and spin them in every possible combination, but nothing seemed to work. Are you meant to cut additional notches in the housings to accommodate the pattern on the Koitos, possibly cut off the tabs on the Koitos, or am I just missing something obvious?

 

[visionaut]

I have a 76er, and mine fit directly into my existing housings. ( it’s a 2-step riser, and they fully line-up and insert).
 

Your bucket appears to have deeper, narrower single-step slots…

[Evyatar]

I have another question regarding the Koioto lights, is there a version of them with city lights?