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      04-16-2015, 10:56 AM   #221
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I played with the contrast a little on this one. Also, please excuse the drive way it's our neighbors.
Looks real nice. Can you please tell what all bulbs, leds, cancellers, and I don't know what all you used for this?

I bought a black housing, din like the smoked look, returned. Now I will order the chrome version but I also wanna order all the bulbs and led's for Low Beam, High Beam and DRL. And I wanna go all OEM white 4300K. Would be awesome if you temme the exact bulbs too.
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Wjat are tou running for low beams? The regular h7 halogen bulb? Or an aftermarket hid kit? The chrome lights look really good, leagues above the halogen crap
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      04-16-2015, 11:02 AM   #223
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DRLs are LED (included and hard wired into the light). High and Low beams are Nokya Cosmic White at 5000k. The lights originally came with some H7 bulbs installed, but they were too yellow next to the halos, so I swapped them out for the bulbs listed above that were in my original lights and they match perfectly.
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DRLs are LED (included and hard wired into the light). High and Low beams are Nokya Cosmic White at 5000k. The lights originally came with some H7 bulbs installed, but they were too yellow next to the halos, so I swapped them out for the bulbs listed above that were in my original lights and they match perfectly.
Are the High and Low beams leds? Which seller did you get these from?
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      04-16-2015, 11:10 AM   #225
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Are the High and Low beams leds? Which seller did you get these from?
No, the high and low beams are halogen. See my above post. I ordered these bulbs on Amazon.
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Those look great I have same M sport on BSM also. Tonight if you can let us know of how bright you feel they are at night. Like what the light output is. Any improvement over stocks? Given you have aftermarket Nokya halogens. I have Philips Crystal Vision so slightly brighter but not as white as yours.

Also if you can provide some pictures against wall to show cutoff of lights to see how sharp they are. Thanks man appreciate it and love the m performance splitter
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No, the high and low beams are halogen. See my above post. I ordered these bulbs on Amazon.
Error Free? Did yu replace your fog lamps as well?
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      04-16-2015, 11:34 AM   #228
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Will do on the night impressions.

I replaced the fogs with the same bulbs in H8.
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Those look great I have same M sport on BSM also. Tonight if you can let us know of how bright you feel they are at night. Like what the light output is. Any improvement over stocks? Given you have aftermarket Nokya halogens. I have Philips Crystal Vision so slightly brighter but not as white as yours.

Also if you can provide some pictures against wall to show cutoff of lights to see how sharp they are. Thanks man appreciate it and love the m performance splitter
Are the lights H7 for both high and low beam?
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Sorry, yes error free. No blinking in the halos or LED DRLs either.
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Are the lights H7 for both high and low beam?
High and low beams are the same bulb. Read back in the thread, there is a thorough discussion.
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Sorry, yes error free. No blinking in the halos or LED DRLs either.
Alright, so should be good with Nokya H7's (4 of them for Highs and Lows) and H8's (2 for fogs)?
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Yeah really any H7 bulb your choice. You can check that throughout forum.

I wonder since these are halogen projectors instead of xenon, how a high quality HID will look with it. I know people were talking about it but no one tried?

I only changed my Low Beams since I have yet to use High Beams. But if you go with blueish Low Beams you will want matching High Beams for times you do use them.
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Thanks Marshalltj,

It is very nice! Still wish they kept high beam on the inner housing... but oh well beggar cant be chooser in this case
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Any CA Bay Area people can recommend a shop for this work?
(yeah I am a chicken, even after all you folks DIY, I still want someone else to do it)
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Any CA Bay Area people can recommend a shop for this work?
(yeah I am a chicken, even after all you folks DIY, I still want someone else to do it)
Nope you're not! I don't think you should attempt things you're not sure about or you will mess up bad. Staying away and keeping it simple is better than messing up and paying double.
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Those look great I have same M sport on BSM also. Tonight if you can let us know of how bright you feel they are at night. Like what the light output is. Any improvement over stocks? Given you have aftermarket Nokya halogens. I have Philips Crystal Vision so slightly brighter but not as white as yours.

Also if you can provide some pictures against wall to show cutoff of lights to see how sharp they are. Thanks man appreciate it and love the m performance splitter
So I have decided to go with the Philips Crystal Vision. Are these OEM white? Any errors?
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Yeah really any H7 bulb your choice. You can check that throughout forum.

I wonder since these are halogen projectors instead of xenon, how a high quality HID will look with it. I know people were talking about it but no one tried?

I only changed my Low Beams since I have yet to use High Beams. But if you go with blueish Low Beams you will want matching High Beams for times you do use them.
*Once* I found someone who can put this headlight in for me I will attempt to put in HID for low beam. I am not really into blinding people, so if its bad I am going to take it back out... Looks like the Nokya one is pretty good
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There's already a version of these with hid built in. Link is a couple pages back in this thread.
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*Once* I found someone who can put this headlight in for me I will attempt to put in HID for low beam. I am not really into blinding people, so if its bad I am going to take it back out... Looks like the Nokya one is pretty good
Low beam and high beam are the same bulb (housed in the outer lens). There is a servo that changes the angle of the bulb when you switch on your high beams. The inner lens is the DRL.
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There's already a version of these with hid built in. Link is a couple pages back in this thread.
From Protuning right? i think they are just H7 HID kit with the headlight... but i will email them and ask.

thank you VERY much for everyone's help.
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Yeah, its just preinstalled hid kit.
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