Anyone fitted osram night breaker plus?

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wheelie

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Hey guys,

Not much on a search on this one, I'm looking at the Osram Nightbreaker plus bulbs to replace the OEM units I have. Seems strange that I have the headlight washers and auto leveling lights but no HID's or xenons, looks like just the basic hallogen?

Or I'm being a complete spanner, entirely possible today ...
 
Headlight washers are standard on all 3.0 Z4s, unfortunately seeing at night is an option :tumbleweed:

Turn the adjuster screws up a bit in conjunction with some decent bulbs.
 
The OSRAM's look like a good compromise rather than going for a HID kit that may run into MOT issues later this year.
 
wheelie said:
The OSRAM's look like a good compromise rather than going for a HID kit that may run into MOT issues later this year.
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Just been looking at these today. Big difference in prices across the Net makes me wonder if there are fakes around?
And it's 2 pairs of H7's each side i think?
 
jimbo1958 said:
Just been looking at these today. Big difference in prices across the Net makes me wonder if there are fakes around? And it's 2 pairs of H7's each side i think?
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I've been trying to work out which ones i'd need as well jimbo, any definative answer from the community? Is it just 2 pairs of H7 Osrams as a suitable replacement chaps?

Pete
 
Just to add - I was running the Osram Nightbreaker Plus bulbs in my e46, the photos are gone from my post on e46zone.com from the time I fitted them and took photos to compare, but they are markedly better than the OEM bulbs I had. Think I paid £18 for the pair on eBay.

Si
 
This might help.
http://www.micksgarage.ie/carspec.aspx?&deptid=181&make=Bmw&model=Z4%20Feb%202003%20Onwards&basemodel=&year=&engine=&petroldiesel=&mode=drilldown
Looks like you need two pairs. But this leaves me wondering about the fogs.
 
worth trying powerbulbs.com - I think there's a discount code on here somewhere as well....

I think we need (2007 Z4 coupe):

4x H7 (Main and Dipped)
2xH11 (front fogs)
4xW5W (led) - side lights/rear license
6xP21W ((clear glass) front/rear indicators/brake lights

I use the following bulbs:
H7 - Phillips X-treme Vicion
H11 - Osram Nightbreaker +
W5W - Phillips blue Vison
P21W - Phillips Vision Plus
 
wheelie said:
Seems strange that I have the headlight washers and auto leveling lights but no HID's or xenons, looks like just the basic hallogen?
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The previous owner of my Z4 thought they had xenons as the car had the headlamp wash, but I soon told them otherwise. You won't have auto-levelling though if you have halogen: what you'll have instead is a height adjustment thumb dial next to the light control panel (beside the dash illuminaton dimmer).

Z4's need 2 pairs of H7's: one for the dipped beam and one for the main beam. I started off with Philips Xtreme +80% in the dipped beam units but moved them into the main beam when I fitted a HID kit to the dipped beam units.
 
Do the facelift Z4s have LED foglights? (It's raining and car is in garage so don't want to go out and check!)

As I have Xenons in the Z4, if this is the case, I have a set of H7 nightbreaker plus's that I don't need - only done about 1 month's driving (I only do 3000 miles/year so they've hardly been used).

Will happily send them to a good home, if anyone would like to try them?

Si
 
Si, ill take those bulbs if you dont mind - will make a donation to the forum for karma sake. iain.
 
Psy said:
Do the facelift Z4s have LED foglights? (It's raining and car is in garage so don't want to go out and check!)
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No they don't but it's easy to change for LEDs. Here's a picture of two different LED "foglights". Left has 102 leds (H11 102 SMD Led, 4800K), right has 68 leds (H11 68 SMD Led, 5050K).


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Here's a picture with the 102 LEDs. The color is 4800K, so close to OEM xenon's 4300K:

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Dice
 
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