Thanks guys, learn something every day. I'll test the brights/halogen 'high' beams. Certainly fits with the autobahn tradition of flashing brights to pass ..... is the angel eye 'ring' a separate bulb or filament around the reflector? I haven't really looked at the lighting set up to evaluate, just notice the 'angel eye' fault.

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