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LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 2:33 am
by extremezmachine
My angel eyes bulbs just went out...both of them at the same time
Then I google for replacement and came across this retrofit...
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/For-BMW ... .24.HratHQ
Anybody tried this installl yet? If yes... how durable is this?
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 5:42 am
by Alan Gunn
You have to open your headlights to fit them.
Depending on the year you can warm thr glue or you have to cut the lenses off.
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 9:01 am
by lezmtaylor
[quote="Alan Gunn"]
You have to open your headlights to fit them.
Depending on the year you can warm thr glue or you have to cut the lenses off.
August 2002 is cut off date , any later they will not heat unglue.
Do not rely on date of vehicle, there is a date stamp on the headlight shell .
Had a look at the advert, they say 2004 to2006 that cannot be correct as I have shown cutoff date for splittable headlights is 08/2002.
If you can find a pair of pre August 2002 (I would go July to be on the safe side) then try it.
Also the 2 black boxes shown in ad look like ballasts that were supplied with ccfl rings.
I did the ccfl mod, and then later changed to led rings, much better and don't have to warm up.
I posted a photo last week,it was Smeeagain: posting photos.
Lez
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 4:20 pm
by extremezmachine
Mine is the facelift version... June 2005 model
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:09 pm
by X5Sport
You won’t get them apart. Need new bulbs
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:56 am
by lezmtaylor
I agree with x5sport
Lez
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 2:05 pm
by extremezmachine
Dang... burst my bubble
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 5:20 pm
by henrym3
Lez I'm surprised at your comments that you changed the ccfl's for LED's. I fitted the ccfl's and was very impressed. Apart from the lighting up quicker, is it a brighter/whiter light, the bottom line is when you had spent the time to do it, Did you look at it and say, yea, that was worth the effort?
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:24 pm
by lezmtaylor
I compared the ccfl to the led AE's and found the led rings to be much brighter, it depends on how many leds are in the ring, I'll have a look and see if I can find where I got the from and the led count.
Lez
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:32 pm
by henrym3
Cheers, much appreciated,
Re: LED Angel Eyes Rings replacement with turn signal
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:58 pm
by lezmtaylor
I bought these back in Feb, they are still current Ebay Number 111982907209, they are from China, but I get most of my bits from there, 1/4 to 1/2 the price, most of the UK suppliers get there's from China, just have to wait 2/4 weeks. They are cracking AE's., better than OE.
I had 2 ballasts pack up on the ccfl's, and one of them was showing degradation and slow start up.
Lez
Posted 24 Sept a photo of them.