[Valley Motorwerks]

I bought my M5 a month or so ago and knew that the headlamps were not factory original. The HID lamp assemblies were added at the dealership post delivery. The AE's were always a little yellow/brown I checkd for voltage at the bulbs and I was getting a full 12 volts so I swapped out the bulbs for the Umnitza V3 bulbs... upon installation they were a tiny bit brighter but the color didn't change much at all. I went on to more important things then revisited them today.

A shout out to Matt at Umnitza for the email troubleshooting help late last night!

As delivered:

Predator V3 (inside the shop they look much brighter):

I would angle the bulb in the socket and they would brighten up, odd. I grabbed a mirror and flashlight to check things out, here's what I saw:

What I took out, someone placed blue film over the light collector inside the assembly, it of course melted causing the odd coloration.

Now this is MUCH better!!

 

[MancUnited1]

Blue film? Previous owner tried to make the AEs look "LED blue" on the cheap?

 

[Valley Motorwerks]

Blue film? Previous owner tried to make the AEs look "LED blue" on the cheap?

I'm sure it was 2 owner's ago, the folks I bought it from were not the type to mess about. What the guy got was not LED blue but burnt sheit brown/yellow!!

 

[OC e39r]

I never noticed your AW is very clean like this. I like..:biggrin:

 

[Frye]

I shudder when I think about how many of these cars that have been molested.

 

[timmay77]

I'm surprised you got it all out. What a horrible thing to find done to your car. No telling what ELSE was rigged like that. Yikes!

 

[Valley Motorwerks]

I'm surprised you got it all out. What a horrible thing to find done to your car. No telling what ELSE was rigged like that. Yikes!

Yeah it took some digging... I was so surprised since the car was basically stock except for a very well installed xm system and SS mufflers. So far so good though... The rest of the car is pretty brilliant.

 

[Mfreakin5]

Wow, that's ridiculous.

 

[rvt1000]

Feel your pain, I was replacing my Fogs to HID yesterday and found out previous owner had the wires connected to the bulb directly, no adaptor in between, geez, so now I'm looking for a set of adaptors. Funny what some ppl will try and get by with.

 

[lothar]

Damn, that blue tape is a good idea

Seriously, this kinda reminds me of when I took the medicine cabinet out of my master bathroom a few years ago. The builder had left a half-finished can of Coke between the drywall. And I wondered why I always had so many ants in there. Lazy people for the loss.

 

[Valley Motorwerks]

Damn, that blue tape is a good idea

Seriously, this kinda reminds me of when I took the medicine cabinet out of my master bathroom a few years ago. The builder had left a half-finished can of Coke between the drywall. And I wondered why I always had so many ants in there. Lazy people for the loss.

Yeah I'd prefer to find a wad of cash.. I'm just saying