I bought a salvage 2008 A4 B7 audi Special Edition. It needs the entire front end, including headlights. I just bought aftermarket Angel Eyes headlights on ebay that came with the XenonHID ballast. Look at the link below, these are exactly as the ones I got. Will these adapt right into the wiring on my audi? In other words, is my audi already HID? The headlights did not come with any type of special connection or so.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/XENON...Q5fAccessories

 

Is there enough of the original damaged headlight in place to see if it was a projector or a reflector design. If projector, the original lights were HID and you likely need a harness adapter for the ebay lights. The ebay lights look to be a direct replacement for a halogen headlight.

 

I dont know since it did not come with the headlights at all. Mine is the last B7. It is the Special Edition. Do you know if they were reflectors or projectors? Assuming they are not halogen, what else will i need to make it work? Where would I be able to get the adapter?

 

You can tell if they were xenon by looking at the existing harness. If the connector has rounded corners, it's halogen, square round corners = xenon

 

Hey guy, I am going to go the salvage route on my first Audi--to save a few dollars.
Wondering if you dont mind what you paid for the car and what its gonna cost you for another front end?
How are you sourcing the repair parts? Used I would imagine--where from? Other salvage yards local to you? Online places?
Thanks for the info........

 

I got the Audi for $8500 with only 2500 miles on it. As you may imagine parts are expensive. Car will end up costing me $13k not bad considering the MSRP was $36k according to the dealership. I also paid it in cash so no interest paid whatsoever. That is me doing all the labor though as I am somewhat knowledgable in body work. Most of the parts are from ebay and the rest from various salvage yards throughout the U.S. I live in Arizona and have bought parts from salvage yards all the way in New York. Shokan does not have too many parts for B7s so they are not much help. copartfinder.com also helped.

Let me know if you do end up buying it and I can refer you to certain yards I have worked with.

 

Dude you gotta an awsome deal, even it's salvaged

 

That's true, that's a very good deal

 

Sometimes you can find a salvage car for a very good price, but how are you will have problems selling it

 

thanks for that, i downloaded PCMScan this afternoon & it did look an excellent program. Does the trial version do enough without having to buy the license code?