Headlights Hella or Depo

I went DEPO and they are still great after over a year.

I got the Depo sport headlights from Amazon. Fits great. I highly doubt the UV coating will last as long as OEM, but definitely a lot cheaper.

I can also confirm the Hella headlights are the same quality as oe

I just installed new Depo OE HID Replica headlights and fogs from ECS tuning on my ‘03 Jetta. Much better visibility with the new headlights I’d like to get everything working properly.

I wish my cutoff line is like that for my DEPO’s

I installed my DEPO headlights & they made a world of difference in terms of aesthetic. I’m not too sure about how the light intensity is from the projectors but I could just need an alignment…

I just replaced both of my assemblies with Hella's from FCP. cost me about $260 for both housings and they came with all the bulbs. just make sure all of the bulbs are installed properly. one of my projector beams was not snapped in all the way so the cut-off didnt looks right. Just had to re-seat the bulb.

I got a pair of DEPO OEM-style lights which look and fit the same and have the leveling motors. I notice that some light shines out the side of the assembly. I can see the HID capsule, located between a parabolic mirror and the projector lens, by looking through the side of the headlight at a specific angle. The light leakage through the same path illuminates a vertical strip of bushes and trees off each of the car. The beam pattern seems a bit different with these, more of a step-up versus what I thought was a straight horizontal cut-off previously. Otherwise the fit and finish seem fine on the DEPO lamps.

The Depo aftermarket ones have the reputation for leaking. I would pass.

Depo is terrible, buy old original lights and swap the projectors for new ones - preferably bixenon version. They will work 10x better compared to this depo trash.