Headlights Hella or Depo

Depo if you want good price for good quality

Depo headlights.

Hella’s are a great brand

I scored a set of NOS Hella headlights and sold my crosshairs which I found out were aftermarket. The beam pattern is much better already, I ordered a set of Daniel Stern's H4 bulbs so I'll actually be able to see at night now.

These new headlights look so much better than the old halogen headlights that come with the car. I have put 2 pictures of what it looked like before

Stick with DEPO

OEM Volkswagen halogen headlights are your best bet -- at least these days. The ones VW actually equipped their Mk5's with from the factory have a VW logo on the shield in front of the low-beam bulb: He indicated there were several manufacturers that made those for VW as an OEM product. I'm most familiar with Hella, one of those brands, which of course is a world-class brand. Hella has also offered headlights on the aftermarket, that are identical to the ones they manufactured for VW, and tend to be somewaht cheaper. The only subtle difference is that those have a crosshatch pattern in the shield instead of the VW logo:

I thought the headlight gap was normal. I have glass depos and they have the same gap. The original plastic headlights had the same gap as well.

Horrible projector beam pattern, poor light output, get hazy in no time, have a weird "geared" ring around the low beam projector and the turn signal is way lower than it should be which is a telltale sign that you have aftermarket headlights and the cherry on top is that the write all the regulatory crap on the clear lens and it's like the whole Quixote.

Depo are usually shit.