Aftermarket Headlight Reccomendations
 

Okay so Ive been thinking about doing this upgrade for a while now and I just had both of my angel eyes go out (one went out a while ago never got around to fixing it because it was the dead of winter) and I am thinking of just replacing both headlight assemblies with aftermarket ones. If I could I want some headlights that have built in LED Angel Eye's that are as bright as the newer BMW's have. Anyone have any idea on some or even good ones?

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I bought some ebay Spyders about seven years ago, and they were a massive upgrade to stock halogens. I never wired the halos, but with a relay and a fuse it's not difficult. I crammed some DDM warranted ballasts and bulbs in there at 4300k, and it was a huge improvement. I did a ton of night driving at that point, so it was easy to tell, once I got the aiming right.

If your X has adaptive headlights you may want to keep that stock. I used the WeissLicht LED halo bulbs and made a huge difference in brightness and color of the halos.
On a scale of 1 - 10, the new BMW (E70, F15) halos set to full brightness is a 10, my LED conversion is a 7 and stock was about a 3.

You will need to code out the side lights cold check function in the LCM to avoid the 3 second flickering when you first turn on the ignition.

While there are a few folk out there selling replacement headlight assemblies for the LCI (facelift) X5 E53, most seem to be a like-for-like replacement, not an upgrade. I don't think I've seen an upgraded aftermarket replacement for the LCI - only for the pre-facelift cars. :dunno:

Thanks for the recommendation. I did buy a pair of LED bulb replacements before but off ebay (yeah I know... lol) and they just were not that bright. I figured it had to do with how the light is shining to the halos and it was losing a lot of light that way. Really thats what I want is as close as I can get to the new BMW halos so I will definitely check those out!

That seems to be the problem, no one makes replacement headlights for facelift E53's/later models. Oh wells I think I will give what Overboost said above a shot!

Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

I recently picked up these replacement LED bulbs on eBay for my halos (from a recommendation from another member here):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/YITAMOTOR-W...72.m2749.l2649

SOOOO much brighter and better looking. Literally no comparison. Can't speak to their longevity but for $11 it was a no brainier.

Now I just need to have my DRL coded off. And then I'll wire the halos to run all the time. Still looking for a easy-to-follow "how to" on doing that...