If I bought focus st or rs xenon headlights would they just plug in and work on my standard focus ?

 

Nope, you will need to tinker to get them working

 

Tinker in what way?

 

From memory the wiring needed a fair bit of alteration. I'll bell my mate who did it and find out exactly what he had to do to get them working

 

Any further. On with my query

 

what year is your car, facelift or pre facelift mk1 or mk2 etc

 

Mk2 facelift

 

Also i think if you don't have headlight washers they are an MOT faliure.

 

Yup with these new MOT laws, with xenons, you must have a headlamp washer system, I think the auto levelling is MOT'able now too.

 

yes, must be a full conversion, washer jets, self leveling system from wishbone,

or use HID cheap kits and put normal bulbs in for mot, takes 2 mins to swop back over

 

Why do you need headlamp washers for the Mot?

 

Legal requirement for cars with xenon lamps, they must have headlamp washers and auto levelling.

 

Thought they had botched the wording on the MOT testers manual? Has it been amended since Jan? If not and they HID conversion is aligned correctly and has the right beam pattern then they have to be passed.

 

MOT rules say that a car fitted with HIDs MAY have washers, self levelling lights or self levelling suspension and that if fitted they MUST work. They don't have to have any of them to pass an MOT. The Construction and Use regs say that if HIDs are fitted they must have HID specific headlamp units, wash system and self levelling lights or self levelling suspension. I guess in the fullness of time they will correct the wording fuck up in the MOT manual but until then, they can't fail a car because of a lack of these items.

 

The wiring kits are so easy to fit you just place the old bulbs in and drop the live wire from the battery on cosworths

 

i put st xenons in my mk2 focus, plugged straight in and been thru the last 2 mots with them in with no headlamp washers so yes it is a straight forward plug in job

 

Mk2 2008 facelift ?