R32 Headlight Bulbs!

[chinkeboi]

Hi crew,

I've been workign way too often and have no time to work on my car. Can any r32 gtst owners tell me what bulb types the headlights use?

accesory light

low beam

high beam

indicator light

Thanks, Ben.

[Cubes]

THe R32's I've seen appear to all run the crappy H3C bulb.

Crappy because they are expensive and are not available from most places.

The H3 can be fitted but you are required to earth the headlights globe suround in order for them to work.

While your there you may as well slap them on a relay to prevent the common switch burnout problem the R32's have.

The R32's run the full current through the switch, not a relay as it should be done, the result, melted plastic around the contacts.

The only real benefit with the H3 globes is there are 30% and I believe 50% brighter globes are available from Navara (spelling?).

I went to autobarn for the H3C, they wanted $17 each for some generic looking globe.

[RBLUV]

i run h4's in my headlights

darnoe about rest

[chinkeboi]

hmm h3c's .. h3's and h4s.. i guess im guna have to pull the thing apart sometime..

any1 on here have a definite answer?

[hanyou]

gtst same wid gtr for headlight globes in a 32 yeah?..

[Cubes]

The project types I've seen run the H3C.

Unsure what the early model ones run as they don't run projector head lights.

[arbess]

Pull your bulbs out and goto Repco. They have nearly everything.

[predator]

Unsure what the early model ones run as they don't run projector head lights.

don't they? hmm.. might have to remove mine then

I was just looking at it the other week .. the "projector" is h3c.. and the other highbeam is a JA12V.. which I've been told is a standard H3

[hayden49]

Still havnt figured it out yet ben?

bleh, if your gonna pull your aac apart or need a hand give me a yell, haha im not much use but ill try.

have a good one mate.

[West]

Non projectors 32 used H4 ( lucky bastards ), i have a projector and i have to imported a H3C from RAY BRIG in Japan as the AutoBarn ones just not bright enough.

Projector lights are normally on late model r32 regardless gtr or not and they used that stupid H3C BUT late model N1 use H4.

[twisted]

I have had projector headlights with both H3C and H1 globes in mine. Not sure when they changed. Only physical difference between was the projector bulb itself. The H3C bulb was more smokey in colour to the H1 which was whiter (i think, i cant remember which way around it was now)

[West]

Yeah, H3C is for normal driving and H1 is on the high beam side.

[BHDave]

Mine has h1's in the low beam projector. sept 92 model, no idea about the others, haven't had to replace them yet.

Avoid narva like the plague, i bought a twin pack of the arctic white and they both died within 2 weeks of each other 6 months later.

[Hakujin1977]

just replaced mine Narva H3's 48323 $19 at repco

[fr0st]

Does anyone have a reccomendations on what bulbs give a nice blue off angle glow ala european cars?

[Cubes]

Do remember any light that is emitted from your headlamps that is not white you can be defected for.

[Fixxxer]

In QLD at least, a blue tinge is not considered to be a "blue" light and is not defectable.

In my R32 Type M '93 I just replaced the headlights with H1's (55W of course) and I replaced the park light that had died with a W5W - which is a 12V - 5 Watt standard bulb.

Funnily enough, the W5W parker bulb cost $6 on its own, when all the other parker bulbs (12V with slightly less watts) were 2 for $5 of $6, what a rip!

Some idiot before me put in a H1 - 100W Rally light in my headlight, instead of a normal 55W, it kept melting the fuse at the fuse box, and also melted the plastic around the globe itself. Let it be known to everyone, just because it's higher in watts, doesn't mean it's brighter. The new H1 55W I put in, is a lot brighter, and I now have good headlights, whereas before I could hardly tell I had my headlights on sometimes.

Fixxxer

[png godzilla]

i have a 91 R32 GTR, it had the projector type with the H3C bulb in it, they are soo cr a p at night i just couldn't hadle it.

my mate has a 93 R32 GTR & he has different looking head lights, they take a H4

easy fix, i put 93 R32 Headlights in mine & now run PIAA H4 Bulbs & can now see at night!