GILLY
What, me worry?
I have a thread going on a K-Bike.com forum, thought I would ask here, for those who might not frequent that site.
My 07 GT came without Xenon, so I found a great deal (really cheap) on a Xenon kit. It has the 4300K color range, which is what the car manufacturers normally spec, nice white color. It is also rated at 35W, which is what BMW calls for on their own Xenon option.
This should help a lot, but I am thinking about upgrading the high beam as well. These are H7 bulbs rated at 55W from the factory, Xenon option or not.
There is so much info out there on different types of H7 performance bulbs that it'll make your head spin. Gets really confusing really fast.
What makes the most sense to me might pose a risk, so was going to poll others about it before I act.
Idea is to replace the stock H7's with Osram "Ultra High Output" 65W bulbs.
10W higher than stock, but the Xenon is rated at 35W, whereas the stock low beam is also 55W, so I am going down 20W on the low beam but adding 10W/ea with the high beams (which of course wouldn't be on 100% of the time either).
BUT of course the headlight ass'm is pricey and rather not having it running like a waterfall onto the front fender.
Hoping I can get away with this but wondering if others have done anything similar to their bike. I'd rather just get what I can out of the stock headlight and not add aux lights to it.
Gilly
My 07 GT came without Xenon, so I found a great deal (really cheap) on a Xenon kit. It has the 4300K color range, which is what the car manufacturers normally spec, nice white color. It is also rated at 35W, which is what BMW calls for on their own Xenon option.
This should help a lot, but I am thinking about upgrading the high beam as well. These are H7 bulbs rated at 55W from the factory, Xenon option or not.
There is so much info out there on different types of H7 performance bulbs that it'll make your head spin. Gets really confusing really fast.
What makes the most sense to me might pose a risk, so was going to poll others about it before I act.
Idea is to replace the stock H7's with Osram "Ultra High Output" 65W bulbs.
10W higher than stock, but the Xenon is rated at 35W, whereas the stock low beam is also 55W, so I am going down 20W on the low beam but adding 10W/ea with the high beams (which of course wouldn't be on 100% of the time either).
BUT of course the headlight ass'm is pricey and rather not having it running like a waterfall onto the front fender.
Hoping I can get away with this but wondering if others have done anything similar to their bike. I'd rather just get what I can out of the stock headlight and not add aux lights to it.
Gilly