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    Best Price and quality hid headlights

    I did some searching but most threads arent up to date so just need a few links with prices looking to spend about $400 prob will be more after reading what i want.

    Projectors, 8k HID, led angel eyes, and its for a 2001 preface lift e46.

    just toss me a few links looking to order by tomorrow i will post pics ofcouse once installed and just got my mtechII bumper looks superb post a pic in a couple of min

    here it is, a bit sunny but an ok preview shot
    Last edited by Bizzy; 02-20-2012 at 01:31 PM.

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    Try Umnitza, I know they sell projector headlights with HIDs and AE pre-installed. They look pretty similar to the OEM HIDs if I remember correctly. I have no idea how much they want for a pair though.

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    Give us a shout tomorrow. We can start shipping latest on Wednesday.

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    I've heard bad things about the Depos...

    Your better off buying a pair of projectors, shrouds, and good HID kit and installing the Angel Eyes, which you CAN buy from Umnitza:
    (Or go OEM)


    HID Retrofit DIY:

    http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1753520
    http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=840919

    Angel Eyes:

    http://www.umnitza.com/predator-orio...te-p-1198.html
    http://www.umnitza.com/orion-lite-60...es-p-5686.html

    You can buy an HID kit from:

    http://hidnation.com/


    Of course, if your lazy and don't want to go through all the trouble, go ahead and buy a set of DEPO Projector Headlights but do your research. 20 Different people can't be wrong in my opinion, the light output from them isn't that great...

    A few weeks ago I had person that was willing to give me an arm and leg for me to trade him my halogen housings for his Depo projectors. I was really close to doing it too and something in the back of my head told me something was wrong about that, so I went on google and started doing research and behold... Guy probably was sick of them and needed Halogen housing to do a retrofit or preferred the output over the halogen over the projectors

    Sorry Umnitza, nothing against you, you just sell them...




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    I actually did a ton of research too. I thought about the retrofit only one thing im worried about is the light cutoff leveling once installed... I figured maybe people would recommend one set of depo lights over others. I'll post all my research later and prob make my decision once all my options are explored.

    Wait fyi i need a whole new passenger side housing a clip that holds the light in place broke due to my small accident. So Depo is prob the easiest way to go but will be a pretty penny.
    Last edited by Bizzy; 02-22-2012 at 11:11 AM.

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    I can't recommend P46s. They look good and are easy to install but the quality of the lighting is so-so at best. After I replaced my H7 HID bulbs they went from so-so to terrible.

    I'd go on ebay or elsewhere and try to find a set of OEM ballasts, ignitors, projectors, bulbs, shrouds, etc. ONce you have all that, you can pretty easily retrofit them into your halogen housing.

    You're not going to have auto leveling either way so why not get OEM quality?

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