headlights

[audirs6sport]

Would an A6 4.2 xenon headlight housings fit on rs6 as a replacement?

[nene]

It should. Keep in mind that the A6 4.2 housings don't have bi-xenon...just as they lack bi-turbo. The bi-xenon is really the ballast and the proper wiring.

[SpinEcho]

Originally posted by nene
The bi-xenon is really the ballast and the proper wiring.

Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought bi-xenons had a shutter which redirected the light from the same bulb. This would have nothing to do with the ballast...

[nene]

Originally posted by SpinEcho
Maybe I'm mistaken but I thought bi-xenons had a shutter which redirected the light from the same bulb. This would have nothing to do with the ballast...


You might be confused with the VW Touraeg (sp?) or something, which I don't believe is bi-xenon, but does use one bulb or something to that effect.

The RS6 is bi-xenon, which means the ballast feeds both low and high beams. Last I checked, they were both different bulbs, and not one.

Color of the beam is a different thing though.

[audirs6sport]

Originally posted by nene
You might be confused with the VW Touraeg (sp?) or something, which I don't believe is bi-xenon, but does use one bulb or something to that effect.

The RS6 is bi-xenon, which means the ballast feeds both low and high beams. Last I checked, they were both different bulbs, and not one.

Color of the beam is a different thing though.


Factory US RS6 NEVER came with Bi-xenon. Low beam is xenon, high beam is halogen.

[nene]

Originally posted by audirs6sport
Factory US RS6 NEVER came with Bi-xenon. Low beam is xenon, high beam is halogen.

I beg to differ sir.
Check the PDF for RS6 equipment URL below, and you will see that Xenon high intensity discharge is for low and high beams.

RS6 Equipment (http://www.htms.org/RS6Equipment.pdf)

Maybe you think that for it to be high discharge you must have blue lights? Or maybe you don't have an RS6 with bi-xenon. I know mine is.

[SpinEcho]

Yup, and bixenons are on all the Canadian-spec cars as well.

[audirs6sport]

Originally posted by nene
I beg to differ sir.
Check the PDF for RS6 equipment URL below, and you will see that Xenon high intensity discharge is for low and high beams.

RS6 Equipment (http://www.htms.org/RS6Equipment.pdf)

Maybe you think that for it to be high discharge you must have blue lights? Or maybe you don't have an RS6 with bi-xenon. I know mine is.



All RS6 that was shipped to the U.S. was never equipped with a Bi-xenon system (DOT). Ask Choppo, he recently bought a pair of bi-xenon projectors (ECE) to swap out the factory non bi-xenon projectors (DOT). I've also done the same that is why I am 100% positive. Canadian versions might have came with the bi-xenon factory system since they are equipped with dailytime driving lights which are the halogen high beams. I'm not trying to argue with anyone here, I am just letting you know that in reality it's not bi-xenon even though many of the specs out there do state that they are. Here's a simple way to figure out, turn on your low beam headlights, and at the same time turn on your high beams. See if the halogen lights in the middle are turned on while the low beams are still on. This obviously means that only the low beam is a xenon system while the high beam is not due to the fact that bi-xenon would only function as a low beam or high beam, one at a time. In addition my headlight is not blue, it is purple, just appears blue in pictures. But pics never justify the real color of these lights compared to reality anyways... :)

[96a4]

I work at dealership and I just checked EKTA and RS6's DID NOT come with "bi-xenon" headlights.

[DaveyKid]

It's just a shutter that flips the xenon low beam to a higher position AND turns on the high beam as well. That's all it does.

[choppo]

Originally posted by DaveyKid
It's just a shutter that flips the xenon low beam to a higher position AND turns on the high beam as well. That's all it does.

Yeah but what a diffirence the ece e codes are tho
I can see MUCH BETTER @ night now.
:)


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