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Old 01-12-2010, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by mag75' post='1088930
I'll prove you wrong


Originally Posted by mag75' post='1088946
Hi mag75

If you toke you the time and did make a "search" , you will discover that several members of this forum already have done this "upgrade"
Old 01-12-2010, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by JeRZee XiE60' post='1088992
One thing to point out though, is that the original poster is asking about halogen to halogen, something that is a bit on the odd side, lol.

I think that most people go from halogen to xenon if they are retro-fitting.
Exactly. Might as well do halogen to xenon but u also need top retrofit the auto leveling sensor in the wheel well if you go from halogen to xenon. You might be able to fit the plugs, plug em in correctly and call it a day without programming if going from halogen to halogen. Just use my HID kit and you will have amazing results but you wont have the benefits of HID angel eyes.
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The reason why he wants to go halogen to halogen is because the Pre LCI is not a projector lamp and the LCI is. The halogens on the LCI look way better.

I wonder if it would be easy to retrofit a HID kit (brabus kit) into the LCI halogens and mount them to an Pre LCI e60. That way it would look exactly like OEM Xenons LCI light in a Pre LCI...Possible???? Have you checked out if this could be done Brabus? I may try this next!
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I've done it too ... from pre-LCI halogen to Bi-Xenon LCI ...

Originally Posted by mag75' post='1088946' date='Jan 12 2010, 09:19 AM
Haha, I think a lot of people would here would like to see this able to be done.
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I was thinking about doing the same thing until I found out that the halogen projector is not the same as a xenon projector. See below link for info

http://www.bmwland.co.uk/talker/viewtopic.php?t=101011
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Originally Posted by jas_r_1' post='1089682' date='Jan 13 2010, 09:09 AM
I was thinking about doing the same thing until I found out that the halogen projector is not the same as a xenon projector. See below link for info

http://www.bmwland.co.uk/talker/viewtopic.php?t=101011
It will work just fine. The difference in the projector does not make a noticable difference. The outcome is very similar between the Xenons projector and the halogens projector with an HID kit. I have seen it in another make.

My question is will it fit without too much modification?
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I'd like to know this too as I have a set of LCI halogens but the plugs wont fit.
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