Best Budget Headlight Upgrade-Mk4 Jetta HID Bi-Xenon Projector Retrofit

[@tannerstearns1647]

About to do my own retrofit in the next few weeks! I made some SW Galactic Empire logo etched lenses and demon eyes. Would love to see more Jetta content! Great video!

[@hanspoole]

Sounds cool! Got any special video requests? I ended up unexpectedly having to replace the coil and plug wires last week, and I did have to remove the upper manifold because of my specific engine variation. I'd be happy to make a video of that if that'd be useful. Besides that, my 2.slow has been too reliable to make much maintenance-related content and my bank account has no desire to make performance upgrades😂

[@matthewmaree6393]

Thanks for the vid, just got a vr6 mk4 and wanna do this

[@hanspoole]

You're welcome! Good luck on the retrofit!

[@pekp3k89]

love it! very informative video 👏

[@hanspoole]

I’m glad you found it helpful!

[@pekp3k89]

​@hanspoole how's it compared to then and now? and in rain?

[@hanspoole]

Overall, I would say that the headlights are better and brighter, especially in regard to the cutoff line and beam pattern. The before and after clip near the end demonstrates that pretty well. Getting them aimed properly is extremely important for best performance. As for in the rain, they work well-they work well in any precipitation, for that matter. Fog is a bit problematic though…

[@pekp3k89]

I just realized my mk4 golf has h7 connectors. do you happen to know which harness would work?

[@hanspoole]

Unfortunately, I do not know of a harness that would make a single projector per headlight setup work on a Golf headlight, since the Golf has separate high and low beam bulbs. That's not to say there aren't harnesses out there that could do that for you, I just haven't had a need to look for any. I'm not familiar with doing a projector retrofit for a car that has separate lows and highs, so I would recommend searching through some Golf forums to see if anyone has successfully done that with a Golf. Whether you do a single projector setup that has a high beam shutter, or you have separate low and high projectors, I'm sure there's a wiring harness out there to make it happen. Good luck!

[@JM-jq2sj]

What hid kit did you use

[@ignaciopetru]

Great video! I'm planning to do something similar with my Bora; the stock headlights are lousy. Did you consider those H4 bulbs with projectors? I think that maybe it's a simpler solution. (I'm afraid of damaging my headlights because here in Argentina they are ridiculously expensive.)

[@hanspoole]

Thanks for watching and commenting! I haven't considered those H4 projector bulbs, but that's simple because I hadn't found them first. They might work perfectly fine, I'm just unfamiliar with them and haven't researched them. I would highly recommend digging through some forums to see if other people have done the same thing and what their results were.

[@antoniop5889]

I just bought some retrofit projectors myself. I’m working on my 2002 Escalade. For the high beams on the projector is it necessary to hook them up? What if I just want to use the original high beams and not the projector one?

[@hanspoole]

If you have separate low and high beam bulbs, then I would just leave the projector's high beam solenoid wire disconnected. As long as you have separate bulbs for low and high beams and your projector is only replacing the low beam, it's not necessary to connect the projector's high beam solenoid; it will work just fine. The reason I connected it in my case is because I was using the projector to replace a dual filament bulb that served both low and high-beam purposes (an H4 bulb); hence, I would've had no high beams if I had left the projector's high beam solenoid wire disconnected.

[@antoniop5889]

@@hanspoole thanks bro that’s what I was thinking. Glad you replied saved me a lot of time in attempting to make the highs work.

[@hanspoole]

No problem!

[@matthewmaree6393]

Are these euro or US spec housings?

[@mohafify9137]

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[@nicholaskennedy9902]

Have a parts list with numbers?

[@hanspoole]

Do you mean for the headlight housings? The VW part numbers for those are 1J5941017BJ (passenger's side)and 1J5941018BJ (driver's side). There are no part numbers for the retrofit kit that I'm aware of, but I've linked what I purchased on Amazon in the description. Unfortunately, it looks like the projector kit that I purchased is "currently unavailable", but if you make a search using keywords from the item's title I'm sure something comparable will pop up.

[@mihajlostanojevic5649]

Size of projector lamp?

[@hanspoole]

The projector is of the 2.5" type, and I believe it is a mini h1 bulb.