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Which AE bulb

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Which AE bulb

Post by Aaron_P85 » Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:41 am

Is there a sure fire way to determine which bulbs my May '07 E70 will be using for its angel eyes? H8 or the twin spoke ones?

It looks like a mega naughty job to get the old ones out so, ideally want to get the old one out and new ones in straight away, rather than pulling the old ones out and running with canbus errors until new ones come?

Also which are the most commonly used LED white bulb replacements? Lots of conflicts using the search function

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Re: Which AE bulb

Post by Riggie » Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:55 am

An idiot's guide to changing them would be helpful as well if anyone can help .........

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Re: Which AE bulb

Post by Aaron_P85 » Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:53 am

Decided to tackle it head on before work... Took the furthest to the wing, bulb out first... Daft sod, had I thought logically - that's where the headlight bulb is!!!!!

Anyway - inner bulb holder is perfectly within reach, and I have the H8 bulb in currently so off to look for the brightest bulb possible cheers
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Re: Which AE bulb

Post by rob » Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:07 pm

I had some Philips xenon effect bulbs fitted they were £ 24.99 for a twin pack from eurocarparts a lot brighter than standard didn't take long to fit

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Re: Which AE bulb

Post by Riggie » Fri Mar 04, 2016 1:05 pm

[quote="Riggie"]
An idiot's guide to changing them would be helpful as well if anyone can help .........
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Some pics maybe?

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Re: Which AE bulb

Post by rob » Fri Mar 04, 2016 5:21 pm

Was local garage they did it in carpark within 5 mins and five pound for each side

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