Headlight Misting up!

[RJS-Z4]

Non standard headlights, well I take back all I said then.

Entirely possible water is pissing in all over the place.

I may have one spare set of normal halogen headlights available in a week or two if you're interested. One of the mounting points broke but I have repaired it and ran it for ~9 months and it's been fine. Where are you in the country? I'd even be happy enough to fit.

 

[GreyZed]

The garage said the water was getting through the front where the bumper meets the headlight... For the light they said that they had never seen anything like it (this didnt feel me with confidence) They look like this... http://www.xenonsonline.com/t10-501-w5w-canbus-error-free-8-smd-led-bulbs.html I dont know whether you can tell but I am not that clued up on headlights, the guy I bought it off said they were Xenon so I assume they are xenon with LED bulbs? If thats possible? The year is 2005 with non standard headlights. Do you have BMW standard lights in your Z4?

That link is to LED sidelight bulbs not headlights and not Xenon. Loads of us have replaced our sidelights with LEDs like these but this is irrelevant to determining where your moisture ingress is coming from.

Moisture ingress is usually down to incorrectly fitted rear covers or degraded seals on the rear covers (on mine a wire had been trapped in the seal when someone had replaced the back cover thus breaching the watertight seal). Are your indicators in a clear or orange hockey stick shape along the bottom of the lamp like this?


In this pic the right hand side bulb is the LED sidelight and the left hand side is the Xenon dipped beam headlight.


Post a pic of your lights so we can see if you have OEM units or not.