What I changed first

My very first post

It was the summer of 2009, and what a glorious summer it was. After discussing all night with some of my friends about our cars and about modifying them (like all boys do), I left home dreaming, but with an uneasy feeling about changing my sooo "perfect" Volvo. Second day, at the same bar with my friends again, one of them told me that he knows a guy who can convert my halogen lights to xenon. Without thinking, we drove there in a heartbeat. It was pretty late (about 8:00 o'clock in the evening). The guy told me to come back around 23:00. While there, I met his partner who was specialised in tinting car windows. I decided to do both the xenon lights and the window tinting. And I left my car there. Oh, the horror. Maybe I have issues but I always had a problem of leaving my car unattended somewhere. 

So, I left the car, took a cab back to the bar and waited. Three coffes and 3 sodas later, we took a cab back at the shop. 

Shocker!!! My car doors were taken appart, hood up and wires hanging out of my headlights, one of witch was now using a xenon bulb. One hour later, under my supervising eye, the conversion was complete. Car had tinted windows and xenon lights. I almost convinced myself that night to make a full conversion to xenon (high beam and foglights too), but because of budget, I gave up. 

The xenon systems were and still are not one of the top of the line, but they still do their job just fine. However, the xenons gave me from time to time a "burned light bulb" error message. After some research, I found a site and decided to do what it says, and presto, no more error message....ever.

So..., this is the story of my first mod ever. Hope you liked it. Maybe it made you remind your first mod to your beloved car. If so, write me a comment with your story.

original halogen lights

the xenons

front side view

 the windows tinted