Projector fog lights on facelift X5 - Page 5

X5SND · #41 07-10-2013, 12:17 AM

^^ After what ya'll went through first with the flood, then the rail incident right after.....who can blame any Calgarian for making the most of the stampede! Party on!!

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Clockwork · #42 07-10-2013, 12:22 AM

Cheers X5!!

Ricky Bobby · #43 07-10-2013, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by X5SND

Hey Ricky, Mine are being delivered tomorrow....

lol.

...But I haven't got the ECS stuff yet. Fancy a race?

TRS stuff should be here today! It's out to the garage I go later S!

You ordered your fog housings from ECS or ebay? Or do you mean you haven't got the TRS stuff yet?

X5SND · #44 07-10-2013, 09:32 AM

Got them from eBay (already delivered) but I'm stil waiting on all my additional pieces (motor dif, trans mounts, plugs and vanos kit) which came from ECS.

Clockwork · #45 07-15-2013, 04:24 PM

any more updates guys?
the starting motor went on my 850 so I'm trying to solve that fiasco before I get back on the projector fogs project.

Ricky Bobby · #46 07-16-2013, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Clockwork

any more updates guys?
the starting motor went on my 850 so I'm trying to solve that fiasco before I get back on the projector fogs project.

As with any X5 there are always issues to work out before getting to the fun stuff. I'm hoping to get mine installed this weekend, but I couldn't get my X aligned last weekend because the tie rods are seized so I'm waiting for those to come in and get my alignment finally done, and also I replaced my 9 year old stock xenon bulbs for new ones over the weekend (Morimoto's) and am having issues with them firing up, so I either have bulbs that don't play well with our Hella ballasts, or my ballasts are going to need replacing as well.

Always something...

X5SND · #47 07-16-2013, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

As with any X5 there are always issues to work out before getting to the fun stuff....

So true.

My status remains unchanged as well. Hopefully ill have everything by end of week to get this moving though!

Clockwork · #48 07-16-2013, 01:43 PM

sorry to hear of the lighting troubles RB. Hpe you can solve them quickly!!
I feel your pain. I have to wait till next week now to get my mech to fix my starter motor. it's impossible to fix myself. very well hidden

X5SND · #49 07-20-2013, 11:24 PM

Ok, so I finally got my swag; and had a couple mins to briefly fire one up.

For clarification, I purchased the Depo units....They appear to be of pretty goof quality...but (and maybe Im wrong on this one) is it just me or is the front lens glass, and not polycarb? It feels/sounds like glass....which has me a bit worried, but I will be 3m clear bra-ing them regardless anyway.

I did get a chance to briefly fire one with the morimoto HID kit, and they DEFINITELY need some tweaking....but since I really only had 10 mins to peek them I can definitively say how difficult it's going to be. There did seem to be quite a bit of intense blue at short distances, which leads me to believe that the shield needs to be pushed forward; but I'll update that once I can confirm.

Before anyone asks, Yes, I will take pics as I go to hopefully help others out!

Ricky Bobby · #50 07-21-2013, 04:17 PM

I notice that even with the halogen bulbs the cutoff is quite colorful, which leads me to believe yes it does need sharpening the shield towards the lens. Been a busy weekend for me but I have not had much time to play with them yet (as X5SND knows I've had other issues replacing my tie rods and my D2S bulbs in the headlight this past few days)

You know what S? I think you're right, they might be glass. I'll take a look again later, but like you said, the quality definitely looks to be there.

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