Your most regretful modification to your E60...
11-12-2011, 02:05 PM
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, I still need you to do my orions 
11-13-2011, 02:42 AM
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11-13-2011, 08:30 AM
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1) Mine too as well. Good thing that there was a buyback to absorb some $ damage.
2) Hartge Style Splitter - It looked great but cost too much in shipping + paint job. I ended up hitting and scrapping it so much that it cracked, so I finally took it off for good.
2) Hartge Style Splitter - It looked great but cost too much in shipping + paint job. I ended up hitting and scrapping it so much that it cracked, so I finally took it off for good.
11-13-2011, 01:08 PM
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Never Put H&R Springs on stock struts. The ride really sucks in NYC on stock 17's, but improved a lot when I put on my custom 20' Donz Masseria X-Concave rims with Falken FK-452's. I don't know if it's the tires, rims or both. the ride is bouncier, and my wife stopped complaining, but now winter is coming so I'm switching back to stock, but i will buy Bridgestone Blizzaks for winter tires. I will know then if the Eagle RSA tires that came with the car originally are the problem, if not I will replace with stock struts, or buy Coilovers. I hate the fender gap on the XI'sAttachment 128120
you have a all wheel drive ?
11-13-2011, 03:33 PM
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The worst regret I have done to a BMW is I re-programmed a 325i intake to that of a 330i and then phsycially changed it to a 330 inake manifold. Sure it took a good 6 hours total and added a huge amount of horsepower to the car, maybe around 35hp or so but this was my wife's car and after i did that she started racking up tickets 
You may have gotten the wrong lights for the reflector lenses. If you put D2S you should have used D2R. There is a minor difference. As far as the lamp check this is easily resolvable with coding. I can provide more info just message me.
Ouch. 10,000K bulbs are very poor. You should have went with 5000K and if you cannot find them 6000K would have been ideal.
I got 6000K hid kit fitted to halogen reflector lenses.. it does illuminate the road a lot better than stock halogens.. but i do get flashed for blinding people.
and when we travel with multiple cars, i always have to lead
.. im looking into headlight upgrades to counter this issue but avoiding halogens.. also OBC sometimes gives errors even with the errorcancellor.. and last when i coldstart, the lights flashes and take a few moments to stabillize (sometimes with dipped beam faillure on the dash).. really ugly and annoying..
and when we travel with multiple cars, i always have to lead
.. im looking into headlight upgrades to counter this issue but avoiding halogens.. also OBC sometimes gives errors even with the errorcancellor.. and last when i coldstart, the lights flashes and take a few moments to stabillize (sometimes with dipped beam faillure on the dash).. really ugly and annoying..Ouch. 10,000K bulbs are very poor. You should have went with 5000K and if you cannot find them 6000K would have been ideal.
11-16-2011, 07:26 AM
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Im regretting buying cheap angel eyes off ebay. Not that I think they aren't bright (I never installed them), I just read everyone saying how dull the cheap AE's are so I went and bought some MTEC V3.
I dont want to have to pull the headlights out multiple times, risk scratching the front bar up and making a mess.
Next (and hopefully only) time the headlights are coming out is to install the MTEC V3 AE's, the 100W blue/white high beams and the error free foglight HIDs. Then with any luck, that is all
Mark
I dont want to have to pull the headlights out multiple times, risk scratching the front bar up and making a mess.
Next (and hopefully only) time the headlights are coming out is to install the MTEC V3 AE's, the 100W blue/white high beams and the error free foglight HIDs. Then with any luck, that is all
Mark
11-16-2011, 09:16 AM
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WHOA WHOA, I highly advise you against installing this so-called 100W bulb for your high beams, otherwise that will soon be your MOST regretful mod. That will easily burn your harness, possibly melting your headlight. You can't just throw in whatever bulb in there man.
11-16-2011, 05:21 PM
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WHOA WHOA, I highly advise you against installing this so-called 100W bulb for your high beams, otherwise that will soon be your MOST regretful mod. That will easily burn your harness, possibly melting your headlight. You can't just throw in whatever bulb in there man.
really? hmm the seller claims they are 100% safe, as i wasnt sure if the factory wiring would have any issues with the higher wattage bulbs - i have installed 100w bulbs in previous cars without issue, but they were admittedly not bmw's.. Should I scrap them and just try finding 55w ones?
this is what i bought:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ws/eBayIS...E:L:OC:AU:1123
I dont really like the idea of trusting my cars wiring to a random advert but the ad stated "Are they safe to use? Our 100w 5000k Xenon White bulbs are 100% safe to use in all vehicles."
Sooo, I take it people have had negative experience with this kind of thing? :S
Mark