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Old 11-05-2008, 12:32 AM
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I ordered my Hella 500 fogs from Susquehanna Motor Sports - good deal and they are great lights (the original outboard fog lights on my W115 had been broken off). Just last weekend, I replaced my sealed beam headlamps with Bosch H4's. Yes...they are great! Considering that it is almost impossible to find Euro headlights in the US for a W115 car, and getting them from E-bay Germany would be expensive, this seemed to be an attractive solution. The beam pattern has a MUCH better cut-off and they do a much better job putting the light where you need it. I love them....plus they have a flat lens which I think looks more like the Euro lens, and IMHO it's much less wasteful to replace just the halogen capsule than the entire sealed beam unit.

What should have been a 15-minute install turned into several hours though....I destroyed the screw head on the left side headlight assembly and ultimately had to drill it out. Finding an equal size screw in my large collection of small screws took the rest of the time. Funny how the easiest of jobs can turn out to be frustrating.
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