Light problem - long one so bear with me

[PboroRyan]

Hi all,
I bought my e85 3.0i a few months ago and noticed the lights were different, presumably from light condensation or a minor front end bump.

One has a darker insert which I believe is from cheaper models, and one had a silver insert which I believe is from higher models?
Anyway, this bugged me so I bought another darker headlight because I preferred the look of the darker insert, thus had the silver headlight spare. This silver headlight has H7 embossed on the lens, but also a little metal box on the bottom which is related to xenon lights? (Pictures below).

Anyway, my car now has 2 dark insert halogen headlights, which I thought was fine, but I have no adjuster wheel for the lights and also headlight washers, presumably meaning my car should have xenons and not halogens? Is there a way to check what lights my car should have?
So my question is, is the headlight I have spare a xenon unit, and should my car have xenons for definite? In which case I'll keep the xenon lamp and sell the 2 halogen units. Obviously I don't want to be driving with halogens that don't self-adjust and no way to adjust them manually.

 

[markplant]

Have you tried vin decoder

 

[markplant]

http://www.bimmer.work
You need last part of your vin and tick the captcha box

 

[PboroRyan]

I had not but i'll give it a go, thank you!

 

[Anonymous]

Yes your now spare silver unit is a xenon light . And yes 3.0 Ltr cars came with Xenons and headlamp washers as standard fir your year model . As is supported by the lack of headlamp adjuster and the presence of headlamp washers . You should have 2 Xenons fitted . They can be either silver or black inserts but were silver as standard on your model car . Hope that helps Bryan

 

[PboroRyan]

Thanks dietcokeman, thats really helpful. I'll set about looking for another silver xenon unit to replace the 2 grey halogen lights. Really useful everyone thank you!