windman
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Dear Friends i bought aftermarket headlight over ebay. I found their polycarbonate quality quite high but unfortunatelly reflector quality was lower than euro style stock headlights. I decided to drop in bixenon optics into brandnew set.
I bought two pcs of Hella bixenon optics from an donor BMW. Also i purchased range rover shrouds. Bulbs were chinese ones but qualitywise they can match to OEM ones. They have metal base and exact color match with oem ones. I boughts them over aliexpress.
Headlights pair ~usd100
Bulbs ~usd11
Shrouds and optics ~usd70
Some epoxy putty and paint ~usd20
Result = Priceless
First of all i removed polycarbonate glass from housings by heating them with a heatgun. I rotated each headlight slowly not to overheat same place. I removed glass and never touched the reflector with bare hand. I used gloves.
I drilled halogen bulb holes with dremel and with a larger hole it allowed me to fit the back of hid reflector and glue it in its place. Before installing new reflector, i removed the reflector part of lens assembly, from the glass optics and after fitting through the new enlarged hole on halogen reflector, i fixed it by bending little tabs again on halogen reflector which are also to holding D2S type bulbs in its place. After installing this semi finished product on car, i adjusted light beam according to the halogen beam shape i previously drew on wall. I drillet two holes on each headlight at top of reflectors and fixed the bixenon optics with thin and long screws. After final checks i heated polycarbonate glass and assembly slowly, i joined them together without using any other glue than on headlight itself.
You can see the photos of processes and final product on vehicle. Light distribution is top notch an dequal to any BMW with bixenon setup has.
I bought two pcs of Hella bixenon optics from an donor BMW. Also i purchased range rover shrouds. Bulbs were chinese ones but qualitywise they can match to OEM ones. They have metal base and exact color match with oem ones. I boughts them over aliexpress.
Headlights pair ~usd100
Bulbs ~usd11
Shrouds and optics ~usd70
Some epoxy putty and paint ~usd20
Result = Priceless
First of all i removed polycarbonate glass from housings by heating them with a heatgun. I rotated each headlight slowly not to overheat same place. I removed glass and never touched the reflector with bare hand. I used gloves.
I drilled halogen bulb holes with dremel and with a larger hole it allowed me to fit the back of hid reflector and glue it in its place. Before installing new reflector, i removed the reflector part of lens assembly, from the glass optics and after fitting through the new enlarged hole on halogen reflector, i fixed it by bending little tabs again on halogen reflector which are also to holding D2S type bulbs in its place. After installing this semi finished product on car, i adjusted light beam according to the halogen beam shape i previously drew on wall. I drillet two holes on each headlight at top of reflectors and fixed the bixenon optics with thin and long screws. After final checks i heated polycarbonate glass and assembly slowly, i joined them together without using any other glue than on headlight itself.
You can see the photos of processes and final product on vehicle. Light distribution is top notch an dequal to any BMW with bixenon setup has.
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