AKAlius's Euro Sticker with a new twist.
Can you take some better pics of the cuts?
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nice. looks like real Euro light now. i wonder if i can do that
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My Ride: 2007 530i. Purchased 6/28/07. Titanium Silver Metallic, Black Dakota Leather, Dark Poplar Trim, Steptronic, Premium Package, Cold Weather Package, Bluetooth, Adaptive Control Xenons. 10/30/07 Added OEM 124s with 245/40/18 & 275/35/18 Michelin Pilot Sport A/S tires. Installed red Cal Covers� from BavAuto. 11/21/07 Added OEM all-weather floor mats (for winter, carpet in summer) and coat rack. 6/26/08 installed M5-style rear spoiler. 6/30/08 put on red reflectors. 8/22/08 Euro turn signal stickers applied. 3/20/09 Installed Shadowline Trim. 3/27/09 Added Matte Black Kidney Grilles from Trinity. 4/03/09 Installed Bimmian Shadow Matte Black 530i Badges. 4/04/09 Installed LED license plate lights from Trinity. 5/01/09 Installed Brabus Interior LED Kit and White Angel Eyes. 5/02/09 Put in Brabus 6K Fogs. 5/14/09 Removed charcoal filter. 5/15/09 Installed light smoke LED side marker lamps from Trinity. 5/21/09 Sprint Booster. 6/12/09 Painted exhaust tips flat black. 6/13/09 Pulled red Cal Covers and painted calipers low gloss black. 6/27/09 RPI Ram Air Scoop from Trinity. 8/15/09 Installed Brabus's silver invisibulbs front and rear. 9/24/09 Installed R-Dash license plate LEDs from Brabaus (John).
So Phi's stickers can be adhered using either side? It looks great.
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Seeing your pictures I never realized that the clear portion comes out easily like that. If it were possible to find the clear portion of the LCI headlight, perhaps you can buy that part only from BMW. Could that entire clear part be replaced?
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Seeing your pictures I never realized that the clear portion comes out easily like that. If it were possible to find the clear portion of the LCI headlight, perhaps you can buy that part only from BMW. Could that entire clear part be replaced?
http://media.photobucket.com/image/l...0/DSC_1334.jpg
http://media.photobucket.com/image/l...0/DSC_1334.jpg
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I started this last night at 11pm and rush it and finished at 4pm on one headlight. I still need to seal the headlight though. Going to start the other one shortly. I'm redoing the Euro corner because i rushed it also.
I used a soldering Iron and lots of patience to take apart the headlight.
Because that is how umnitza sells it. Also you have to work around the fit, Its not as plug and play and I thought.
Not sure yet, haven't seal it. I'm only 1/3 done. I still have to take apart the other headlight and do the work on that and then seal both. Will know in a few weeks about condensation. 
Their guide is so vague it sucks. There are many other things that are different from the LCI also. You have to pry off the black piece pretty much from the headlight. The LCI has screws that can take off the black piece.
Yes you can! The way I did it was. I took off the amber. Spray painted it with silver spray paint. and then applied Phi's sticker. I have an extra set so i'm going to redo the corner to make it smoother.
I was way ahead of you and was thinking about doing this two months ago. Unfortunately, Its not as simple as a swap of that piece. You have to change the whole black bezel piece, the silver reflective piece and the clear part. The Non LCI has two piece of plastic. One is the amber and one is the foggy corner which the signal light comes out of. I only took out the amber and left the foggy piece there.
Hope this answers some questions. Now I have to go to sears to get an exacto knife and some clamp straps. You'll need those straps to hold the headlight together when sealing. Also I have a glue gun that mounted the angel eyes to the silver bezel behind it and mounted the black portion back onto the headlight.
Another issue with Umnitza's Orion V2's is that both rings dont fit exact. The bigger ring on the headlight is actually smaller than your OEM light. As you can see in the pics I had to place it in the middle to make it look uniformed.
The other ring is just right except the top portion wont fit due to the black bezel that it sits on. So I had to pretty much crack the top piece off and glue it to the silver bezel ring.
Geez, so much fun...
I used a soldering Iron and lots of patience to take apart the headlight.
Because that is how umnitza sells it. Also you have to work around the fit, Its not as plug and play and I thought.
Yes you can! The way I did it was. I took off the amber. Spray painted it with silver spray paint. and then applied Phi's sticker. I have an extra set so i'm going to redo the corner to make it smoother.
Seeing your pictures I never realized that the clear portion comes out easily like that. If it were possible to find the clear portion of the LCI headlight, perhaps you can buy that part only from BMW. Could that entire clear part be replaced?
http://media.photobu...80/DSC_1334.jpg
http://media.photobu...80/DSC_1334.jpg
Hope this answers some questions. Now I have to go to sears to get an exacto knife and some clamp straps. You'll need those straps to hold the headlight together when sealing. Also I have a glue gun that mounted the angel eyes to the silver bezel behind it and mounted the black portion back onto the headlight.
Another issue with Umnitza's Orion V2's is that both rings dont fit exact. The bigger ring on the headlight is actually smaller than your OEM light. As you can see in the pics I had to place it in the middle to make it look uniformed.
The other ring is just right except the top portion wont fit due to the black bezel that it sits on. So I had to pretty much crack the top piece off and glue it to the silver bezel ring.
Geez, so much fun...
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Already have a question. The rings are connected to the light module. However the two big rings are connected to one with 4 connections and the smaller rings with 2 connections. I thought there was a big and small ring per light module. How am I supposed to wire that?? I can't simply transfer a small and big ring to one module. 
