Hi All,

I purchased Hella Xenon retrofit kit (Hella product number 1LL 008 875-831) for my 1995 BMW when I visited Japan.

After the installation, I found that it's for countries driving on left side of road (such as England and Japan).

Is it possible to convert it to be Ok for countries driving on right side of road by minor modification?

Thyank you.

Funny Philips in Asia/Japan sells alot of product they would never dare sell in western Europe/North america. They even resell other manufacturers products. I guess Hella could have seen the same grey hole and selling kits in Japan.

It is probably only original dual filement bulbs (H4, 9004, 9007) where HID kits will differ, any other kits are pretty generic. Generic as in no underbelly shield. Do u have a detailed picture of bulb, ballast and wiring harness?

Umm, It's not that cheap aftermarket kit.
I can say it's a quality product.

Same models (but for right hand driving countries) are sold in the States and Europe.

You can find product information at
http://www.hella.com/produktion/HellaPortal/WebSite/Internet_de/ProdukteServices/Fuer_Den_Autofahrer/spezprod/bmw3/facelift/facelift.jsp

It is using D2S for low beam and H7 for High beam.

Can I just flip the cutoff-shield?
How much total output will I lose in terms of percentage?

When u said HID kit, I assumed it was an HID kit and some hardware. The link you are showing is a not a HID kit, but a complete headlamp, which is a much better start.

If they are made like the Hella 90mm, they might be switchable by turning rear end of projector unit.

If there is no such thing bulit in, then theoretically, u could flip the shield. But its not that easy in real life. Shield is usually very easy to screw off - mounted under three torx screws. Shield itself can have assymterical mount points, so that it is not mistakenly mounted the wrong way under production. Vertically, the shield is mounted with 0.2mm tolerances, so it would take some trial and error to get a flipped shield mounted rigth in 3 dimensions.

This is the assymetrical shield om the Hella 90mm:



I recommend you to get most expensive torx bit you can find, posibly in combination with some pozidrive type screwdrivers and open up the projector units!

When you are mentioning 'turning rear end' or 'flip', pls let me know the direction.

turning clockwise or counterclockwise?
flip up and down or left and right?

Thank you

Remember that light formation at shield distance is an image of what you get on the road. So a shieled flip would mean to rotate it around vertical axxis in the middle of shield.

I'll try this mod near soon.

Thank you for your great help.