1 Although you can access the headlight assembly with the wheels on and turned hard to one side, I find it easier to just jack the vehicle up and remove the…
2 The daytime running light is the inner halo, here on the driver side it is to the right. Remove the brown and white wired connector from the rear of the bulb…
3 The factory DRL bulb is a simple 10W halogen with a BA9S base. However the plastic assembly is such that there is no way to remove the bulb. BMW wants you to…
4 The solution is as easy as taking 10 seconds with a dremel tool to make two little notches next to the bulb to allow the bayonet pins to slide out.
5 Once I removed the bulb I cleaned up the dremeled notches a bit with a micro-file
6 This is the hi-intensity LED bulb I ordered off ebay from China. I could not find anything even remotely equivalent in the US. Claimed output is 500-600 lumens…
7 This comparison shot is in bright mid-daylight with the sun almost directly over my left shoulder. The left passenger side is the factory halogen DRL and the…
8 Same comparison with the car partially pulled into the garage to provide some shade. Left side is factory halogen, right side is the LED.
9 Same shot as before with the Xenon HID headlights turned on for comparison.
10 Parking lights on at night
11 A couple of weeks after I installed the first set of LED bulbs, I discovered even brighter ones that used the latest Cree XBD emitters x10. The Cree XBD chips…
12 Here's the comparison against the first set of LED bulbs that I previously tried. The new bulb is on the left / passenger side. It is clearly brighter than the…
13 Final result in full summer midday sun
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