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I have been meaning to brighten up my night riding pretty much since I bought the scooter. The Vog came standard with 35W Ba20d incandescents, and the first thing I did was switch out the bulbs for 45W incandescents. The make, if anyone is interested, are Eiko 6245B. These were a great improvement but were still inadequate. I did not put in HIDs for some reason.

The next thing I tried was to wire in two 55W halogen fog lights, which required a relay, a switch and a separate power line to the battery. They were big and heavy and I never figured a good way to mount them so I gave up.

I ended up putting two 10W Cree Flood lights on as driving lights and the results are amazing. These can get pretty pricey, but i found a vendor on ebay who had two for $35 including shipping, less than the cost of a single light at retail. I went with 10W and not higher because the 10W are only about 2" square, and anything brighter gets a lot bigger and I didn't want them sticking out too far. The installation was easy because I still had all the wiring on from the halogens. I put them on the black body plastic rather than the faring because in this way there would be no wires to disconnect when I took off the faring. Here are two pics with the lights installed and the faring off. I drilled the black plastic and put a wide washer on the underside to spread out the tension. I put the nut on the outside to make adjusting easier in the future.





And here is the result. First, a pic with the 45W incandescent only:



And here it is with the floods:



The pics are not the greatest but you get the idea. I'm not sure the light thows much further, but now all of the lighted area is nice and bright, not just a "patch" several feet away from the scoot (which wasn't even that bright). I mounted the lights further back than is probably ideal but i did not want to lose access to one of the screws that hold the faring on. I get a little reflection on the windshield extensions as a result but its not anything that affects the ride.

I also made a video. It shows the difference well but you can't really see the regular headlights well. Steven Spielberg I'm not but again, you'll get the idea.

You can buy yourself a little more light with 45w bulbs without killing the battery. I have the same scoot (Vog 260) and switched to Eiko 6245B bulbs which do help to a degree.

You can really improve with HIDs and there are lots of threads about them on this and other sites. I recently installed two 10w Cree flood lights to supplement the 45w eikos and that is what really did the trick for me.

See if you can find the lumen output. I've checked into these before and if I recall they were dimmer on a lumen basis than my 45watt incandescent bulbs, which are kind of pathetic in and of themselves.

This is the video I used as a tutorial and it served me well.

Beautiful scoot! Many happy and safe miles to you.

I keep meaning to change my gear oil, and I looked at my log book while I changed my oil today and saw it was last changed 6000 miles ago!!!!!!!!!

I drained it and what came out was worse than the stuff I got on delivery - sort of a brownish-greenish shimmering liquid that really smelled awful. It was riding ok before the change so I only hope I didn't do too much damage. I believe the correct change interval is every two years or three thousand miles. From now on its every other oil change that I'll do it. Hopefully I dodged a bullet here.