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Originally Posted by HaroldC
I love the halo rings, aka 'angel eyes', but am not fond of the yellowish color. I know that it's an H8 bulb, which is not very common and has to be ordered. The only difficulty is that the xenon matched bulbs are blue in color and I know have an output less than that of a regular halogen bulb.
Has anyone had success in switching to a xenon colored bulb? How is the light output (brightness)?
On my e46 M3, I've got real HIDs in place of my fog light bulbs. While I thought about it for the X5, I think they're too high to put HIDs in them, for fear of blinding oncoming cars since it's not a projector lens. I also toyed with the idea of using HIDs for the halo rings/DRLs, but will need to find somewhere to place the ballast. There is not much room back there, and I would probably have to run the ballast outside of the housing, which would mean a hole through the housing.
Or am I just crazy?  |
The bulb is a H8 35w, I bought new ones, H8 35w 4,750k, $30 for two, also replaced the fogs with H11 55w 4,750k. Got the dealer to put them in. Now all my lights match my Xenon's.
Did it to my last E70 also no problems.
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