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General forum area => K1200 / K1300 Forum => Topic started by: fatporker on August 30, 2020, 05:31:51 pm
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Afternoon folks ... I have purchased the following kit - BMW K1300S Slimline Xenon H7 HID Conversion Kit Item Number BMW K1300S Slimline Xenon H7 HID Conversion Kit-43K
to install on the bike .. Any idea where i need to mount everything I assumed that it would be a bulb .. tether, small ballast all tucking in neatly inside the cap ... but seems i have a rather larger ballast and various other bits .. any help would be appreciated thnks
(https://i.ibb.co/7jHDc7h/bulb.jpg)
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If the boxes don't go inside the headlamp shell you bought the wrong one.
I have two sets in my headlamp shell, one in the dip beam and one in one of the mains. The best way to get decent lights on the S is to buy a cheap car kit with two sets of burners etc.
It all fits inside, wrapped in some of that perforated flubber matting to stop it rattling its way out.
The kits are designed to have the boxes outside the light unit with a hole cut in the rubber weather cap, hence the grommet. But on the S we have the luxury of a huge shell into which everything fits.
Cut the grommet off and ditch it and everything else should slip through the back of the shell.
Everything in the kit connects together with idiot'ish proof connectors with the two spade terminals going into the original H7 bulb connector and the weather cap completes the neat and invisible job.
Simples!
Bear in mind that most MoT testers (unlike mine) will fail a bike under the new rules introduced in 2018 for having an after market HID kit fitted. I would check with your local guy before rocking up for the test. It is simplicity itself to pull the burners and pop the bulbs back in for the test without disturbing the rest of the kit.
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That was my suspicion that i bot the wrong kit to be honest it was ur set up i was chaing the twin pack bulbs arrive this week .. do u happen to have a link to the hid i shuld be buying mny thnks, i am not being lazy but in speaking to the chap he maintains what he sent is correct
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It is possible to fit that type of HID. But it's a real pain in the ass to find places to cable tie the stuff, route the (short) connectors and drill through a spare lamp cap. I have, and wish I hadn't.
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That was my suspicion that i bot the wrong kit to be honest it was ur set up i was chaing the twin pack bulbs arrive this week .. do u happen to have a link to the hid i shuld be buying mny thnks, i am not being lazy but in speaking to the chap he maintains what he sent is correct
I'll send a pm with piccies later today.
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Guys ... many many thanks for taking the time to read and answer .. appreciate the pm first class forum 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Careful now. People have been banned for being too nice before now :)
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Get 'im banned Brian, we can't have people thinking we are friendly ??? 8)
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I was nearly banned for being too 'greasy'... got so scared I ran away to France and bought a Guzzi... 8) 8) 8)
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That's it! You is definitely banned. For life! As well as permanently.
Guzzi indeed ::)