Owner reviews for headlights

Hi! I tried several variants of headlights and stopped on Hella. It's used, but enlightens the way much better than new Autopal, Neolite and all this...

I've just done a halogen to Golf R style projector headlight swap on my 2010 GTI here in Australia. I am very happy with the headlights overall. My headlights are Eagle Eye brand and look exactly the same as the Golf R silver housings. I was pleasantly surprised to know that fitment was great, quality also looks great, plugs and wiring were concealed and neat, and the light output is much better than the factory halogens.

Basically I started with a brand new set of MK5-look Hella lamps, and cut them up to fit actual D2S factory MK5 Bi-Xenon projectors in them, and wired it all with theretrofitsource.com bulbs and ballasts. These are as nice as can be, and really have tremendous and clean light output.

Initial impressions are great. The color temperature is clearly whiter and brighter. Even just looking at the projectors with the lights on yields a much cleaner look. Output on the road is definitely whiter than the OEM's, but still admittedly a bit "warmer" than what I expected - but the bulbs are still burning in.

So, I built these headlights a couple years ago for my R32. Basically I started with a brand new set of MK5-look Hella lamps, and cut them up to fit actual D2S factory MK5 Bi-Xenon projectors in them, and wired it all with theretrofitsource.com bulbs and ballasts. These are as nice as can be, and really have tremendous and clean light output.

Got the Matrix LED headlights and can say they are awesome. Good light all around and those automatic high beams are superb.

Some 30 year old Hella Smileys for my 448k mile car really seemed to clean things up.

The quality of Depo headlights is generally considered to be not bad (they are EU-certified), but not the best (like for instance Hella).

The headlights (non-hid) are quite possibly the worst design ever made.

agreed, I bought Jetta/Vento ecodes from BFI (DJ auto, same as ebay) and the wiring that came with them was absolute garbage, the wires were so thin and and they were way too long so they had to be squished at an angle to fit between the headlight harness and the plug, which in turn caused the lights to be dim, and if you wiggle the harness with the lights on they'd get brighter. The splice-connectors for the city lights are flat out terrible and good luck trying to use them in a cramped engine bay without skinning your knuckles or having to do 2 or 3 tries to get them in place Also the beam adjusters didn't work right out of the box, one unit was slamming around in the "case" if you will, since the adjuster clip thing wasn't holding onto it. Also which was an even bigger issue was the prongs from the wires inside of the headlight's plug were wobbly right from the start. Trying to plug them in pushed some right out.. Never again.