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Old 04-14-2003, 06:33 PM
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ok i have oem xenon housings. but i do not have the auto-leveling thingy because it was an upgraded housing. i now have xenon in them but they still shine toward the floor and not down the road.. the inside of the housing moves up and down. so i wedged something under the projector so its in the uppermost position. still not much improvement. then i started messing around with the manual levelers . the ones that are on the headlight and you have to stick a philips screwdriver into to move. still not tat much of an imporvement, i know xenons light up the road like a baseball stadium at night , and i still cant seem to get te full potential of the lights to focus down the road . it mainly focusses 10 to 15 feet in from of the car.
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Default sounds like you need the shipping plugs to lock the inner housing in place.

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would that help raise the beam.. where can i get those ??
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they come in US-spec non-xenon housings and ship in euros.
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could i get them at AUDI parts, dept. and would that solve my problem ??
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how do you lock the housings in place? are they screwed in or what?
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slip the ball-end into the slot in the inner housing and turn it about 1/4 turn
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Default I don't know if you can order just the plugs...just ask someone here who ordered euros recently

to let you have/buy their plugs.
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Default e-mail Scottgo on the S4 forum, he recently added Euros and

it was a PITA to get those shipping plugs out. He may be willing to part with them.
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