Angel eyes replacing bulbs

Pradaman · Post by **Pradaman** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:15 pm

My wife's x5 has angel eyes , I think that's the correct name for them, they look like oven rings. One of the bulbs is out and only the sidelight is working! I want to get some better bulbs for it and see there are a large amount available! What has everyone else got? Do you get bright white or xenon looking bulbs and would have to be error free ones. Any advice much appreciated.

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:31 pm

I got the LED replacement bulbs, much brighter.

From here: http://www.hids4u.co.uk/bmw-oem-angel-e ... teid=73669

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:40 pm

+1 for the HIDS4U. Never had any problems with them, and error free..

When you say only a sidelight on - those are the angel eyes on the X5. What bulb is out? Low beam?

Pradaman · Post by **Pradaman** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:15 pm

Yeah it's a low beam bulb that is out. Are these easy to change?

Johnny chimpo · Post by **Johnny chimpo** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:15 pm

[quote=""pvr""]I got the LED replacement bulbs, much brighter.

From here: http://www.hids4u.co.uk/bmw-oem-angel-e ... teid=73669[/quote]

Are these easy to fit and are they plug and play? Was thinking about getting a set instead of the standard halogen bulbs.

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:34 pm

Less than 30 seconds per side.

Raj · Post by **Raj** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:25 pm

The angel eye bulbs are easy to fit as you just have to remove the cap off the back of the headlight to reveal the standard bulb.

Johnny chimpo · Post by **Johnny chimpo** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:05 pm

Cheers guys, wasnt sure if it was as simple as it looked or if there was any more to it....

Gives me more to do in the coming weeks.....

Pradaman · Post by **Pradaman** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:37 pm

Is there a sidelight bulb aswell? Don't want to have. Bright headlights and yellow sidelights!!

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:42 pm

What sidelight? The angel eyes are the sidelights

Pradaman · Post by **Pradaman** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:04 pm

Just called these guys at hid.co.uk they said they don't have a listing for a BMW x5 !! I said its one of the most popular 4x4's in Britain! She said we only have the 1,3,5,6,7 series listed !!!! Bizzare

dirtymonkey29 · Post by **dirtymonkey29** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:21 pm

E39 (5 series) bulbs fit. I took mine out if the e39 into my x5

damian777 · Post by **damian777** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:01 pm

Are the replacement Angel Eye LED bulbs from Hids 4 U as good as the new daylight driving lights on new 2010/2011 bmws ? I want to upgrade my angel eyes on my x5 . D

fenj66 · Post by **fenj66** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:08 am

i dont think my replacement led bulbs for the angel eyes are anything like as bright as proper daytime running light sadly.

just Â£30 to change the colour from yellowy to white, in my opinion anyway..

X5Sport · Post by **X5Sport** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:11 am

I think that is pretty much the experience of most folks. The new BMW fitted systems use multiple LEDs in a ring so I don't expect anything other than that type of installation to work in the same way. Having read reports from all over the BMW World by those who have fitted various systems to their cars, it seems that there really is no option other than either a complex and expensive HID modification, or replace the complete light unit with an LCI version if that is even possible, and that is probably prohibitively expensive.

This may be why BMW offer the Philips DRL system with 4 LEDs as a retrofit. I've been looking at the DRL8 system as an option on my X6, but have not yet decided if that is the way to go. There is an LCI version of the X6 on the way and it appears to have full LED lighting rather than HIDs but that is only on the test mules so we may not actually get them on the final version. Needless to say retrofitting those would probably be both difficult and expensive!

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