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      12-10-2020, 11:38 PM   #1
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Projector housing retrofit

I recently came up on some adaptive xenon headlights for a e92. However I have an e90 and I know that the headlights won’t fit. Can i disassemble them and retrofit my halogen housings with the internals from the e92 headlights or are the mounting points for the lens different as well?

I was given these headlights so I thought I’d try to get some use of them before I try to sell them before anybody says it’s not worth the money
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      12-11-2020, 09:40 AM   #2
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E92 adaptive xenon internals will not fit directly into a halogen E90 headlight. Is it possible to make it fit? Probably, anything is possible. Is it worth it? No.
I swapped my E90 factory xenon projectors to Morimoto M-LED 2.0 - now that was worth the time and money.

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      12-11-2020, 11:50 AM   #3
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Agreed with above. You're better off selling the e92 headlights, pocket that cash, and pick up some projectors and led angel eyes.
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      12-11-2020, 12:52 PM   #4
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Thanks guys, I appreciate it
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      12-25-2020, 04:36 AM   #5
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E92 adaptive xenon internals will not fit directly into a halogen E90 headlight. Is it possible to make it fit? Probably, anything is possible. Is it worth it? No.
I swapped my E90 factory xenon projectors to Morimoto M-LED 2.0 - now that was worth the time and money.
How easy was the task? DIYable? I wanted to swap to a clear lens. Any guide on how to do it?
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      01-06-2021, 01:15 PM   #6
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E92 adaptive xenon internals will not fit directly into a halogen E90 headlight. Is it possible to make it fit? Probably, anything is possible. Is it worth it? No.
I swapped my E90 factory xenon projectors to Morimoto M-LED 2.0 - now that was worth the time and money.
Do you have any link/pictures of your project?
I would like to see the Morimoto LED setup.
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      05-13-2022, 09:58 AM   #7
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LED Retrofit

I am going to second the request for additional information on the LED retrofit. I am also looking at the Aharon LED projectors from Retrofitlab.

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      06-07-2022, 12:45 PM   #8
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E92 adaptive xenon internals will not fit directly into a halogen E90 headlight. Is it possible to make it fit? Probably, anything is possible. Is it worth it? No.
I swapped my E90 factory xenon projectors to Morimoto M-LED 2.0 - now that was worth the time and money.
Can you run LED bulbs in the Xenon projector housings?

I want the projector housing, but I know the Xenon wiring for halogen vehicles has some hiccups.
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      06-23-2022, 10:26 PM   #9
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Can you run LED bulbs in the Xenon projector housings?
Yes. I did it for a while with these. They were brighter than a nine year old stock Osram bulb but less bright than a new Osram CBN (or at least after a few months of use; they got significantly dimmer after a few months). When I swapped out the OEM projectors later I noticed they seemed to have burned some of the projector housing brown. I wouldn’t recommend it.

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