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Old 10-22-2009, 12:54 PM
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They came in last night! They are very, very high quality!! I am very surprised by the quality of them. They seem like OEM but a little better. It actually uses a philips-head metal screw for the height adjustment, instead of the plastic screw on OEM. They fit perfectly in the housing and the cover sits on them quite nicely. The only problem I have is the plug. The facelift X5's use an H11 bulb and the plug goes directly into the bulb. On the projector fogs (pre-facelift before 10/2003 production), an H3 bulb is used and then the wires go to a male plug, so that the bulb and housing are completely sealed. However, this male plug has horizontal pins, where's the H11 bulb (can be considered a male plug i guess) has vertical. (picture below)



I tried rotating the blade/pin terminals in the female H11 plug (plug from car) but they would not go in sideways.

Anyone have any ideas on what I could do? I was thinking about going to BMW and purchasing the plugs from a pre 10/2003 and seeing if the blades/pin terminal would go in the correct way
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