Headlight(s) with orange hockey sticks
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Zedebee said:
Why preferably? My understanding was Halogen and Xenon are not interchangeable?
I'm also not sure that the pre-facelifts came in bi-xenon?
Good luck with the search, xenons aren't that common and always fetch a premium. Although there seem to be a few on ebay at the moment. Hovering around the same price as Halogens... £200 ish (each)!
kis said:
Preferably, because I have bi-xenons at the moment and don’t want to downgrade them, but I do want the orange hockey sticks.
I was assuming that the complete units were interchangeable, but that you couldn’t readily switch parts between the two. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
RealOEM suggests many variants for pre-facelift, including non chrome (I assume this is the black reflector) and chrome; orange hockey stick and clear; bi-xenon and halogen, in any combination. Only clear hockey sticks were offered with post-facelift / E86.
There are several singles on eBay, but not a pair that I want
Zedebee said:Preferably, because I have bi-xenons at the moment and don’t want to downgrade them, but I do want the orange hockey sticks.
I was assuming that the complete units were interchangeable, but that you couldn’t readily switch parts between the two. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
RealOEM suggests many variants for pre-facelift, including non chrome (I assume this is the black reflector) and chrome; orange hockey stick and clear; bi-xenon and halogen, in any combination. Only clear hockey sticks were offered with post-facelift / E86.
There are several singles on eBay, but not a pair that I want
So you have clear bi-xenons at present? For the E86? So Silver?
I wanted to use the facelift bi-xenon shell for my upgrade but it's not really interchangeable. Facelift bi-xenon doesn't have a halogen bulb for the Main Beam (uses the Xenon). The facelift lights have 7 pins used (out of the 8) while the pre-facelifts have all 8 pins used. So thus my theory you can't interchange unless you can code it out/in via the LCM (not investigated this).
If you really want the amber, then simplest way is to get it wrapped with some translucent orange wrap. Much like when some people add fly-eye. Failing that option, cut and shut is your best option IMO. I'm doing the latter as it'll enable me to add some customisation such as duel angels, etc.
kis said:Zedebee said:Preferably, because I have bi-xenons at the moment and don’t want to downgrade them, but I do want the orange hockey sticks.
I was assuming that the complete units were interchangeable, but that you couldn’t readily switch parts between the two. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
RealOEM suggests many variants for pre-facelift, including non chrome (I assume this is the black reflector) and chrome; orange hockey stick and clear; bi-xenon and halogen, in any combination. Only clear hockey sticks were offered with post-facelift / E86.
There are several singles on eBay, but not a pair that I want
So you have clear bi-xenons at present? For the E86? So Silver?
I wanted to use the facelift bi-xenon shell for my upgrade but it's not really interchangeable. Facelift bi-xenon doesn't have a halogen bulb for the Main Beam (uses the Xenon). The facelift lights have 7 pins used (out of the 8) while the pre-facelifts have all 8 pins used. So thus my theory you can't interchange unless you can code it out/in via the LCM (not investigated this).
If you really want the amber, then simplest way is to get it wrapped with some translucent orange wrap. Much like when some people add fly-eye. Failing that option, cut and shut is your best option IMO. I'm doing the latter as it'll enable me to add some customisation such as duel angels, etc.
Many thanks for the advice, that saves me having to find out the hard way.
Umfaan said:
Hi Umfaan, given the advice above it seems I can’t do what I want in the way that I wanted to do it, so I’m no longer looking for headlights. However, the price you are offering is excellent so I’m sure you will have no trouble selling them if you want to. Many thanks for responding to my “wanted” post.
Zedebee said:kis said:Zedebee said:Preferably, because I have bi-xenons at the moment and don’t want to downgrade them, but I do want the orange hockey sticks.
I was assuming that the complete units were interchangeable, but that you couldn’t readily switch parts between the two. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
RealOEM suggests many variants for pre-facelift, including non chrome (I assume this is the black reflector) and chrome; orange hockey stick and clear; bi-xenon and halogen, in any combination. Only clear hockey sticks were offered with post-facelift / E86.
There are several singles on eBay, but not a pair that I want
So you have clear bi-xenons at present? For the E86? So Silver?
I wanted to use the facelift bi-xenon shell for my upgrade but it's not really interchangeable. Facelift bi-xenon doesn't have a halogen bulb for the Main Beam (uses the Xenon). The facelift lights have 7 pins used (out of the 8) while the pre-facelifts have all 8 pins used. So thus my theory you can't interchange unless you can code it out/in via the LCM (not investigated this).
If you really want the amber, then simplest way is to get it wrapped with some translucent orange wrap. Much like when some people add fly-eye. Failing that option, cut and shut is your best option IMO. I'm doing the latter as it'll enable me to add some customisation such as duel angels, etc.
Many thanks for the advice, that saves me having to find out the hard way.
If you wanted to take a look in person, I have a spare halogen, pre facelift xenon and facelift xenon at home. Welcome to test them out on the car, but yes I don't think its quite as simple as the Halogen plug and play between pre and post facelift (unfortunately).
kis said:
That’s very kind of you. Having checked RealOEM, there seems to be some commonality of the various headlight options between pre-facelift and e86, but nothing with orange hockeys, so I won’t be pursuing this any further.
Hope we can catch up sometime, as reasonably local.