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Angel eyes led bulb?

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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by PokenH00D » Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:55 pm

Osram Nightbreaker Unlimited vs 30w LED

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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by X5Sport » Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:47 pm

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Nice. ...... any chance of a link for those X5 sport?

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I'll try to find something.  They were MTEC 35W H8 HID lookalike or something similar - and it was 7 years ago  :(
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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by snrbrtsn » Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:59 pm

"Think" these are said to be successful

http://www.horizonleds.co.uk/oem-led-ap ... eds/H8-led

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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by X5-D-Sport » Fri Mar 31, 2017 11:00 am

I've spent a small fortune on several makes & types of LED set up, to plug into the original fitment of the E53 ring light illumination...
The bottom line is that the design is weak & will never achieve what the newer cars look like.
The modern BMW vehicles have either a much bigger light guide or an LED ring that is effective.

I made the decision to remove my head lamp units, cut the lens covers off the vehicle & will fit the high intensity HALO LED rings at some point in the summer when I a sure of a few nice hot/dry days...
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even cheap HALO LED rings look much better than the 2000>2006 OEM fitted units with the light guide.

I found some LED HALO rings on E-bay for about £30 that are so bright & quoted as 60 watts per ring x 4, that you could drive at night easily with them alone...
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when Hot days in May arrive, lights out, HALO's in & decent rings fitted.... and a pelasant day fiddling in the sunshine...  Yay

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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by jason32 » Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:20 pm

Damn all these bulbs are expensive and we are not sure if they'd look like the newer cars so I just went ahead and bought the normal yellow bulb and even that was £31 from eurocarparts.
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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by PokenH00D » Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:04 pm

Could have got the Osram Nightbreaker Unlimited for that money.
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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by B088IN » Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:25 am

I thought MTEC bulbs were really the only option to get the white led. Although they are a bit pricey. This is the official site in the states but they can be bought here easy enough - http://www.mteclightingusa.com/product_ ... v3-e60.htm

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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by X5-D-Sport » Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:54 pm

The Night-Breaker modification is better, but like mine they don't seem amazing or even vaguely dazzling :-(

For £30+ of fancy LED's, they just don't deliver.

When the weather gets better, I'm going to cut open my headlamps & fit some soopa-doopa bright halo rings & do away with the factory fit bits altogether me thinks.

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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by B088IN » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:42 pm

Seems it is a bit of a mine field as always for LED bulbs. So many overstating the products they sell and not enough delivering as normal  :(

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Re: Angel eyes led bulb?

Post by X5-D-Sport » Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:29 pm

Hi Bo88in,

Agreed, any one would think these ebay product advert will answer your dreams, & illuminate the galaxy for our hard-earned £$35.... when they are generally Bloody Useless.

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