AnteLo said:

So I bought some cheap H1 par of eBay and they suck. Does anybody has LED headlights bulbs in their Punto? If you do what bulbs did you use?

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AndyRKett said:

Not legal in the UK so hardly anyone will advise you on this.

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AndyRKett said:

There are a million cheap Chinese versions but there is no guaranty that they would work properly, last or give you the correct beam pattern.

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AndyRKett said:

As usual you’ve jumped the gun. No where did I say ‘approved’ or make any reference to ECE37

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AndyRKett said:

You can buy extremely high powered LEDs from a major manufacturer to replace normal bulbs and they do claim to maintain the beam pattern, however that have a far higher light output than would be approved for ECE37 these are made only for off road rally and race cars.

In essence there is zero point in making an LED bulb that would meet ECE37 criteria as it would be no brighter and no better than a normal bulb, but it would cost a whole lot more.

However the op is not in the U.K. out lighting regs for LEDs is limited by our own old laws on car lighting from the 80s, I have no idea what the laws on these things are in other countries, yes they have the same ECE37 rules as the rest of Europe but I don’t know what’s else is allowed under individual countries own laws and so advised accordingly.

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AndyRKett said:

The whole regulations on these things is a farce anyway, my understanding is that to meet the regulations the bulbs are allowed something like 0.2mm of variation in the location of the filament in order to get the correct beam pattern, where as most bulbs and manufacturers, submit known good bulbs for testing and approval and then churn out a million bulbs with little consideration for quality control as that level of accuracy costs quite a lot of money, so most cars on our roads might have e-marked bulbs but they would never past the required tests if they were ever tested.

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Lightning said:

Hellooooo....
(There are foreign members (and proud to be) at this forum)
... from France !!


I've tried Censored and I am very satisfied.

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g8rpi said:

Regardless of passing the CT or not getting stopped these ARE illegal in France and the rest of the EU. The laws of physics also apply in France so as there is no light from the side of these they cannot give a correct pattern.

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Lightning said:

I will post in the LED headlight guide pictures of the beams of my LED.
(The fact is in "low beam" I never got signal from other drivers i would have been dazzling)

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