I put some chrome Spyder projector units on my 2001 five years ago and have had about zero issues and they still look fine. They were not particularly expensive, and you can change the bulb/HID kit independently, which is easy. BTW, you can't do that on more modern cars...like MKV jettas...that have computer control of everything. Very annoying. Nothing but hate for computers. I digress.

I never hooked up the halos. I never hooked up the extra leds. I just wanted headlights, and that's what they are. I used some cheap HIDs from ddmtuning, and have changed the bulbs once because I didn't care for the color temp, and was looking for max throw (I changed to 4300k). That was pretty good.

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2001 E53 3.0 5pd