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you still selling these lights? and how much??

unfortunatly all the new ones that were available from bmw are sold!!!!

Thanks to the ones that bought them and I promise you they will be here! Shipping from Germany LAGS! its usually 2-3 weeks shipping from there and they say bussiness days only so REst assured you will get your lights!

I just bought a pair of US Spec Xenons... i have the halogen headlamp assembly. The Xenons come with the bulbs and Ballasts...

What else do I need to purchase to successfully complete this DIY? People have been telling me to contact roveractive or someone like that to get the retrofit kit...

Can someone clarify exactly what i need?

i have:
1. US Spec Xenon Headlamp assembly with bulbs and ballasts...

i will need:
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Follow this DIY and youll have no problems!

sorry adhd if i'm repetitive, and i appreciate your help... so if i have the headlight assembly, bulbs, ballasts, i will NOT need to purchase any other parts/kits?

and obviously, they will NOT be self-leveling or adaptive correct?

Thanks again in advance for your aid! i commend your knowledge

nope u have everything!!! just mod the connection and plug it in!! if you were to plug it without the mod only the corner lights and angel eyes will work!

So where did you buy the XENONs and how much do they cost?
Do they have the orange indicator sidelight?

did you d/c the battery when installing this or remove any fuses? I don't want anything to short

lol no I didnt but i guess it wouldnt hurt!! just make sure the car is off!

finally put mine in....some sidenotes for anyone installing them. For the ground, if you drill it out carefully, you can actually reuse that plug by drilling a hole through it and putting the wire through...It makes a great sound fit. When removing the headlights, the hardest screw to get to is the one in the back (unless anyone else had any easier ways) you'll probably spend an hour taking it off and putting it back on (if anyone thinks its not neccessary to put it back on...it is..found out the hardway and had to pull bumper off again) a thumb ratchet would be very helpful in this case. Also, if you have headlight washers, when removing the bumper, don't forget to pull them off (be careful..they bite!!!!). Other then that...only took us 6 hours and it works perfect. Oh yeah, when installing and if you want to remove fuses, they are 59, 42, and 43 (IIRC), but 59 is also for your DSC and AWD. When I started my car back up, my AWD / DSC and hill brake stop assist came up as malfunctioning ( i almost went in my pants), however after about 30min, the error went away so don't get worried.

Thanks again ADHD!!!! you were a HUGGGGGGGGGGGGE help and thanks to you...I got my xenons

also one major question to all that has done this mod.... if you have your DRL's on..do they make a buzzing noise..almost like a motor..it appears that i must keep them off otherwise they will make this noise..they didnt make that noise prior to the wiring job.

I honestly think its the xenon ballast!! BUt if I could get my DRLS off I would keep them off forever and 5days! your lucky u can get them off!

Hey Tyler. Flip through your car computer. I'm pretty sure in one of the options I saw that you could choose whether or not you want the DRL's on or off. I was bored and playing around with it one day. There's a ton of options I never realized were there haha. How long you want things to stay on, how many times the lane change light blinks, blah blah. Theres a bunch.

hey..i've noticed that the xenon lights to stay still..if u are driving they shake a little...is that normal.. i have everything bolted down so i dont know why they are shaking..any ideas

ya mine do it too..Not all the time just if your on a ruf road or what not! did u lower your car a bit??
I found out when I asked about this a couple months ago that the xenons are suspended in the housing unlike our halogens cause they have too many damb features on them..If we had the canadian cars with the auto leveling feature (with the nonadaptive headlights) would actually work helping the result of less shaking!
That and he said its only cause I can actually see the road know! lol..and im staring at the lights..lol

haha..good point...i guess ure right...its a solid line of light and you can actually notice these things...did you notice that when you hit the high beams, the xenons have some type of mirror / mechanism that allows more output through the high beams...i have not seen that happen with the US xenons..im thinking it may be a Euro feature..

Yes im not sure if the us have it or not, but its a shutter mechanism that snaps down and reflects light into the high beam making it crazy bright!!!
Also u do know u can make them even brighter by buyiing osram 6000k bulbs!

OK did some testing on this!! Im going to admit im a dumbass and had my DRL's off the whole time! I really want the side lights off and I thought that was the DRL's!
So last night the tech was in my car and told me that they are already off and showed me how to do it then turned them on and holy shit they were buzzing like a motor just like u said!! I had the tech come out of the car and listen and he said he hears it too..so since the DRL's are just your high beam on low he went in turned on the high beams then back off and NO buzz, the DRLs were on just fine.. Ive come to the conclusion that it has to be a pulse modulating issue that the euros just have a different sensibility to voltage than the us ones..
so that said if you roll with the DRL's on you will need to pull your brights stick for a sec then back off and they will NOT buzz anymore!!

oh wow!! good catch!! thanks for the info!!! damn i love this forum