H6W Bulb Replacement
 

What do you guys use for H6W bulb (parking light) right below the HID/Xenon/Litronic bulb? A lot of the LED options seem to be oversized so they most likely won't fit through the tube.

Just paid $19 for one at the dealer, that's $1.80 saved with PCA discount! :ah:

I installed Phillips Blue Vision
H6W Philips Blue Vision Sidelights (pair)

Ive just installed these on mine
Side Light High Power Bulb. SMD LED H6W - 99963114090LED, Porsche | Design 911

They fitted fine & give the light a much better look complementing the litornics

from this:http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1397288005.jpg

to this:

http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1397288033.jpg
http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1397288056.jpg

& yes still have the amber to remove from the headlight!

Blinkman - that looks good, big difference.

How does it look in the dark, is it more bluish than the litronic bulb? Im looking for a very crisp white bulb.

Blankman:

They look good, but these bulbs are $25 and they want $25 for shipping to Canada... !

Not worst than PelicanParts !

39$ to ship tiny dashboard bulbs to Canada...

I just went through this a few months ago and couldn't believe how hard it was to source a local bulb!

I ended up with a bulb from NAPA...$10! Highway robbery for a parking bulb but a real bargain for a H6W!

Hi,

My passenger side lower headlight bulb went out yesterday, and I'd like to replace them both with these. Does anyone know the part number, and a source in the US?

Is there any other purpose for those parking lamps besides being a parking lamp which I never use? First one side went out on mine, so I just left it, and a month or so later, the other side went out, so I just left it as well. Lol. Looks fine, and I don't need no stinkin parking lights. :)

Unless NJ is extremely lenient, you will need them at inspection time. ;)

They never check whether the lights work on the car. In fact, I just passed mine a few months ago when one side was out. Lol

Lucky you ;)
I've been denied inspection stickers for them being out. Inspectors check every single exterior light here.

I like to use the parking lights in the daytime. Does anyone know of a US source for these? My indy shop doesn't know where to find them.

This is the part code from the site in the UK. I don't know if that corresponds to a part number.

SIDE LIGHT HIGH POWER BULB. SMD LED H6W
Code: 99963114090LED

Keep in mind that the H6W is for Litronics only. If you have halogens, they use a different bulb type for the parking lamp.

Well, there's the thing where you're (temporarily) driving with a burned out headlight bulb. Nice to have some light on that side so others can tell you're a car and not a motorcycle.

Porsche thinks they're so important as to provide multiple ways to turn them on--both, left only, right only.

Now I'm not sure if mine are Litronic or Xenon.. I thought the option available in 2004 was Bi-Xenon? Here's a shot of my (smashed in parking lot) headlight:http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1446834998.jpg

"Xenon" is a type of bulb. Litronics use xenon bulbs for the low beams. Standard 986 headlights use halogen bulbs for both the low and high beams. Porsche never made a bi-xenon headlight for the 986, only xenon or halogen.
Lits only have xenon low beams and use halogen for the high beams, so technically Litronics are a xenon/halogen hybrid.

You have Litronics.

Thank you!

Actually, "bizenon" is more a marketing concept and the litronics could easily fit the definition.

HID burners are not good for high beams because of their delay in coming to full brightness. Mercedes, for one example, used the bizenon term to describe a process where a moveable metal shield adjusted between high and low positions to provide both beams from the same bulb/burner.

In litronic, a halogen bulb comes on to provide a quick high beam but also the level of the low beam hid projector is mechanically adjusted higher to supplement. It's obviously not as instantaneous as the halogen bulb. Pretty much the same result as bizenon.

Actually, bi-xenons do not use 2 HID bulbs, but one with a cut off shield which is then retracted by a solenoid. Hence, there is zero warm up time for the high beams.

Litronics always block half of the beam with a permanent cutoff shield, meaning that they never use the full light output of the xenon bulb. ;)

I'm not putting down Litronics. They are still much nicer than halogens. :)

Do the 987's, later 996's and 997's have a true Bi-Xenon system? Particlewave is correct that the 986 litronics have just one xenon bulb per unit. I just thought that Porsche had updated the system.

When I was refurbishing my litronic headlights, I could not find H6W bulbs locally and ordered them from Rockauto.

I'd like to compare a set of Particlewave's bi-xenon's with my litronics. Right now, my standard of comparison is my old halogens to my retrofit litronics and I am much happier with my litronics. Maybe it is the little kid in me, but the rotation of the xenon bulb when you turn on the high beams is a nice feature.

Here's a video I shot of their operation after I installed the self-leveling system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGkfebCCf2Y

This shows the start up sequence (H6W parking lights first) self-leveling at start up, and then high beam operation. (If you look closely, you can also see the yellow light from the halogen high beam when the litronics rotate up.)

I also tried to show how the leveling system reacted to changes in the attitude of the car by jacking up one end.

Here is a thread with more information on my adventures with litronics: http://986forum.com/forums/general-discussions/55840-can-you-endure-one-more-litronic-thread-me.html