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semtex · 01-29-2009, 09:07 AM

The xenon bulbs serve as both regular low-beams as well as high-beams. If you think about how cars were before xenons, you had separate bulbs for low and high beams. Even in the early days of xenon, it would be common to have the regular low-beams as xenon, but when you activated your high beams the xenons would turn off and separate, non-xenon bulbs would activate as your high beams. (I had an '02 S2000 that was set up this way.) Well, now some cars have xenon for both low and high beams. And they don't even need to be separate bulbs/assemblies anymore. That's how the Z is.

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semtex A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Behind enemy lines Age: 54 Posts: 5,995 Drives: People to drink Rep Power: 32	The xenon bulbs serve as both regular low-beams as well as high-beams. If you think about how cars were before xenons, you had separate bulbs for low and high beams. Even in the early days of xenon, it would be common to have the regular low-beams as xenon, but when you activated your high beams the xenons would turn off and separate, non-xenon bulbs would activate as your high beams. (I had an '02 S2000 that was set up this way.) Well, now some cars have xenon for both low and high beams. And they don't even need to be separate bulbs/assemblies anymore. That's how the Z is. __________________ "There are no small accidents on this circuit." -- Ayrton Senna 316.8whp & 248 ft/lbs (Dyno Dynamics) \| 319whp & 256 ft/lbs (DynoJet) (04/23/10) Stillen G3 CAI, CBE, Pulley / F.I. LTH / GTSpec Ladder Brace / Setrab Oil Cooler / UpRev-tuned by Forged Perf.