2nd gen headlight upgrade in 2024

Their H4 bulbs If you have fog lights that take H4 lamps you've got something going on some old Cibe or hella of many years ago. So there's always that most fog lights don't take anything near an H4 they don't have high beams generally fog lights etc so I think just the wording is wrong in the ad which I could care less about these are H4 bulbs they call them fog lights I don't care if they called them poop lights makes no difference that's the Chinese for you that's how they do things they're not fog lights there H4 bezel lamps made to go in H4 housings which generally aren't fog lights but okay this is what I have in three of my generation twos the other one is HID with the D4S to LED conversions plugged in with nothing else done oh well I don't know what to tell you those are quite bright and if you crank your adjusters down and get your cut off on the wall set right You should be in good shape if your lenses aren't completely fogged they work very well I'm quite happy without having to oven bake everything apart install merimoto mini projectors and all that nonsense but hey.

 

Maybe the bulb is not seated correctly. Off-axis maybe?

 

Receipt your bulb in the wire clips make sure it's in their proper it's H4 tab goes up to the top and the other two at what four and 5:00 or something like that and then after you get all that done you need to crank down righty tighty on your adjuster about eight half turns That's what you do with the screwdriver when you turn it once you make a half turn because that's what your hand does then you'll see the cutoff line magically appear on your garage wall now you set that line at whatever height you've been reading about sheets running done.

 

Regarding the alarm.

There is a built in alarm, but it isn't normally enabled. It can be configured with Techstream. To see if that is enabled, roll down the passenger side window, park the car, close all the doors, lock it. Wait several minutes (I don't recall how long it takes to arm, 5 minutes maybe?), then reach in and open the door. If it goes off, then the alarm is enabled. Turn it off with key fob, I think lock and then unlock the door, maybe the other way around.

There is some talk of a hood tamper sensor in one of the manuals, but I could never trigger it in my car. Possibly your car has a working one and it broke or unplugged, and now your car thinks the hood is open so sets off the alarm when it arms? It should be wired to at/near the hood latch release. A flaky sensor switch on any of the doors and maybe the hatch would also set off the alarm. I think it would have to short a wire to ground when it wasn't supposed to to trigger the alarm. That doesn't sound like a very common form of failure.