z4 xenon HELP

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billygilly

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Can anyone please tell me if i already have xenon headlights on a pre-face z4 if its possible to put bi-xenon z4m headlights as a direct fit and maybe some part numbers..

have a possible part number 63127162720 but they look like silver back, really after black
 
Your existing xenons are already bi-xenon, so in effect all you are swapping for is to either eliminate the amber inserts, or get the later style interior reflector component.

Sadly they are not a simple swap without rewiring and reprogramming/replacing the LCM.

Over time members here and elsewhere have learnt more about the swaps and It's been done, so have a search on the forum.
 
billygilly said:
On ok it's just I have seen lights with projectors on both sides of the lights
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I'm not sure I fully understand this, however I'll expand.

Bi-xenon is that you have xenon lighting on dipped and main. Prefacelift does this by lowering and raising a shutter to cut off part of the beam. The inner unit is a 'flash to pass and secondary main beam light, halogen only.

On facelift they use the same xenon setup but have found a way to permit flash to pass using the outer xenon unit. This was not possible previously due to damaging xenons by rapid cycling on and off. The inner unit on post facelift xenon is a blank which just has a backlit AE in it.

Different markets may have different layouts and requirements and post facelift halogens are different again.

Hope this helps
 
billygilly said:
Ok that's cleared that up thanks.. I see your sig shows you have AE, DIY or bought
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Sorry for the slow reply, but on holiday and dodgy internet.

AE were a pioneering DIY conversion. Cutting them open, using a sacrificial set and working out how to build a ccfl AE set up that worked. Also chaqnged the ambers to clear. Copied a fair bit now :)

Long write up on the forum if you search, but my connection not that good to do it :thumbsdown:

Edit - Here we go:
http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2953&hilit=angel+eye+conversion
 
Very sorry to waste your time, I'm always on this site via my iPhone, which makes navigation very difficult.. Have spend the morning reading your article and must say I'm very impressed.

Have been looking at a site called modgarage.net, someone who was on here and supercharged an alpina amongst other things (great site/just bonkers money that boy).
Anyway he used a company called http://www.tekarbon.com/ for the light project, now call me lazy but I'm going to afghan soon so I'm tempted to use them if the price is sensible and then they're already for the day I'm back. Just don't know if there good as the modder mentioned a car leccy problem and never got back to me on whether it was connected to the lights.
 
billygilly said:
Very sorry to waste your time, I'm always on this site via my iPhone, which makes navigation very difficult.. Have spend the morning reading your article and must say I'm very impressed.

Have been looking at a site called modgarage.net, someone who was on here and supercharged an alpina amongst other things (great site/just bonkers money that boy).
Anyway he used a company called http://www.tekarbon.com/ for the light project, now call me lazy but I'm going to afghan soon so I'm tempted to use them if the price is sensible and then they're already for the day I'm back. Just don't know if there good as the modder mentioned a car leccy problem and never got back to me on whether it was connected to the lights.
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I've never used them, but as far as I can see they have a reasonable reputation. Someone on the forum posted an email exchange and picuteres and it did look like a crude chopping off of the clear poly lens and gluing it back on, but I may be wrong. Still if they do the job while your away then it could be a sensible route.
 
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