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Or you can buy a headlight assembly with projector type lens in it and just swap it with a H7 kit directly.
You will have a great deal of glare from not having the projector. Unless you bought the H7 for reflector type headlight.

Hi, I have been working on my lights this weekend and can confirm the prefacelift has a plastic retaining ring with no metal clips, its a push and turn bayonet type fitting,

cheers crofter

have taken a photo of the new HID and old bulb.  The hid is in my hand in the pic.  its a lot bigger and will not fit where the old bulb was.

Where are the pics?

I see them - what you can't see them? Sure that surgery was just on the jaw. Happy pills, mmmmmmmmm.......

I'm kidding buddy, no pics, honest. O:-)

try again! 

The halogen bulb you have is H1 not H7
This is what a halogen H7 look like

This is a pic of H1 Hid

Here is the halogen comparison

Here is all 4 together


At the end eventhough i haven't seen H1 set up for X5 for dipped beam, looks like you have the wrong bulb kit or you pulled the main beam bulb by mistake

As above, that is a H1 and I'm pretty sure the dipped beam has always been H7. H1 I think is fog light.

i think the fog light was H3. i've changed the fogs on my friend's diesel prefacelift and that's what he had in there. i ordered the H3s for mine trusting that. if it is mot H3 on mine i have a few H1 kits sitting in my garage that i can use.

on the other note i hope you get the mix up sorted out.
hope we gave you decent amount if guidance

[quote="kkodal78"]
i think the fog light was H3. i've changed the fogs on my friend's diesel prefacelift and that's what he had in there. i ordered the H3s for mine trusting that. if it is mot H3 on mine i have a few H1 kits sitting in my garage that i can use.

on the other note i hope you get the mix up sorted out.
hope we gave you decent amount if guidance
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H3 is foglight, H1 is high beam... :-[

Looks like you've removed the inner (high beam) light bulb and not the outer (low/dipped beam) one.

[quote="Raj"]
Looks like you've removed the inner (high beam) light bulb and not the outer (low/dipped beam) one.
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confirmation on this statement will be a good relief.

Well you have all certainly been helpful than I could have imagined.
Thank you all.  I have just checked the box an I have been supplied with a H7 kit.  I will phone HID direct ASAP as when I ordered I specified on my order that the kit is for a 2001 X5.  I was unsure of which kit to purchase and someone from hid direct sent me a link to this particular kit.

Thanks again all

[quote="awj85"]
Well you have all certainly been helpful than I could have imagined.
Thank you all.  I have just checked the box an I have been supplied with a H7 kit.  I will phone HID direct ASAP as when I ordered I specified on my order that the kit is for a 2001 X5.  I was unsure of which kit to purchase and someone from hid direct sent me a link to this particular kit.

Thanks again all
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Can you confirm was it the outer or inner bulb you removed from the headlight? As H7 is the outer low dipped beam.