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Discuss your latest mods or ideas, and anything to do with the BMW X5 (E53).
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Re: hids-direct

Post by storminmike » Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:18 pm

[quote=""shadrack""]Yeh is the picture above a facelift light? The kit would just plug straight into the bulb connector on a pre facelift, that is on the ballast, I will just tap them in mot station not a problem as I have projector lights so will hide it, so I will just tap into the feed from before the bulb, and nothing is hassle to me and my mods just another day in the office for me![/quote]


The picture above is not mine but yes it does look like mine and mine's a facelift

still a load of faff :D .

No doubt you'll have to mod the hid bulb to use the existing bulb spades?
No doubt you have to splice in and out plugs into the harness to go in and out of the ballast?

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Post by shadrack » Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:15 am

Do the ballasts or anything run realy hot? Just after removing th panel from the rear of the headlight a can fit and fasten everything inside the headlight cluster for that clean wire free finish!
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Post by Denis O » Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:07 pm

The spade end fittings on the HID bulb just push straight into the original plug.
There is a long thread on here about these kits which will help you through the fitting.
I bought the 5000k 35 watt kit and apart from the bulb holders being made of candy floss, thought it was excellent.

I have used both HIDS4U and HIDS Direct and would say HIDS Direct are light years ahead on customer service and price.

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Post by shadrack » Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:12 am

what do you reckon?? 1am sunday morning amd their complete, slicker than a snakes belly!!
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