Just a tad too thick, but otherwise nice job.

 

The thickness would also be a deal breaker for some I'd like to think.

I've searched but haven't found anyone that has taken their lights apart and painted the same type pattern on the inside of the lense. I think this would be more ideal for some but obviously more hassle and work.

 

I think no one had done this because no one wants to mess around with their $3k headlights. If they cost like around $500/set or less, I'm sure a lot would have made some experiments already, like what they're doing in the BMW groups.

 

I agree, especially since you can't package it up and sell it. Sounds like a good idea though.

 

I don't think one can open the lights, can you? The plastic pieces are melted/welded together? I might be wrong though.

 

I'll have to take off my lights later and see if they have hard or soft epoxy on them. If it is soft, you can "bake" the lights to make the adhesive soft where you can pry them apart.

Even if they're hard epoxied together, I might be adventurous with a dremel depending on if the inner mirrored lense section will interfere with the dremel disc while cutting the external housing.

 

Well, here is the thing... mine are older and a bit burned inside. I might be willing to mess around with them so if I can open them I'd be able to clean the burned yellowish burn. At that point I might try to do "something creative" with them.

 

Yes, this is the exact method used by BMW owners to modify or install some projector retrofits in their plastic headlights. If soft epoxy, you can check some DIYs in the Z3 section of bimmerforums.net where this baking of headlights is pretty much done by a lot of Z3 owners. It will at least give some guidelines as to what temperature and for how long to leave them in the oven just enough to soften the glue without melting the casing.

 

Tsk tsk with my luck for eyeballing this kind of thing I'll be eating headlight pudding 45 minutes from removing the lights Unless I follow instructions for dummies for 99' lights specifically.

 

hey jr1966,
do you have any issue with error code or service light pops on your dash because of the led. After seeing those led parking on your car..I think i want one too..They look much better than the halogen.
thanks..

 

no error codes. i don't know why . luck maybe?

 

Some light computers are more or less finicky than others. For the unlucky ones, you can always use an inline resistor to keep the computer happy.

 

There are some that indicates "no error codes" which I noticed are more expensive than those which aren't advertised as such. So I go for those. However, if it is not indicated, I usually stay away from the significantly less expensive ones.

 

Yeah the more "expensive" ones are the ones that usually contain the built in resistors, hence the higher cost.

 

I like the rolling shot. I'm not a big fan of the headlight trim but yours doesn't look bad.