Headlight Bulb Conversion...
12-10-2003, 08:15 AM
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Headlight Bulb Conversion...
Ok last night one of my bulbs popped, so now im a little more motivated to replace my headlight bulbs.
But on this board i have heard that you can do a conversion on the bulbs so that a bulb (cant remeber the number) can fit into my 5th's gen socket and you get like 10 more watts and the bulb wasnt 'capped'
So i was wondering if i could get a link to a thread, or a how-to on this, and if there is ANY danger of overloading my wiring harneses by doing this mod. I dont want to burn those up or anything.
Also i shtere any risk in melting the housing because of higher heat??
For now i am only interested in doing the low-beams....
Thanks
But on this board i have heard that you can do a conversion on the bulbs so that a bulb (cant remeber the number) can fit into my 5th's gen socket and you get like 10 more watts and the bulb wasnt 'capped'
So i was wondering if i could get a link to a thread, or a how-to on this, and if there is ANY danger of overloading my wiring harneses by doing this mod. I dont want to burn those up or anything.
Also i shtere any risk in melting the housing because of higher heat??
For now i am only interested in doing the low-beams....
Thanks
12-10-2003, 10:03 AM
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Heres a link to a how-to that I used to do my 4g
http://www.bmwe34.net/E34main/Upgrade/More_light.htm
http://www.bmwe34.net/E34main/Upgrade/More_light.htm
12-10-2003, 01:41 PM
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it doesn't cause any damage. You just have to remember to wipe the bulbs off with alcohol before putting them in. The light output is really good. Almost like the high beams.
12-11-2003, 07:33 AM
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I DID MY CONVERSION!!
9006->9005 conversion with sylvania silver stars, $43.00 and some time and IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT
I can see now!! I hear that they dont work as well in the rain cuz the higher temp (whiter) light will reflect back more on rain, but no experience with rain yet so i dont know. But for clear night time driving so far they are GREAT
I used that how-to and used a file to get the tab down. and then heated the file up with a propane torch and slid it down inside the plug to melt off those tabs in there and then got a knife and scraped it out. fit really nice and work even better.
9006->9005 conversion with sylvania silver stars, $43.00 and some time and IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT
I can see now!! I hear that they dont work as well in the rain cuz the higher temp (whiter) light will reflect back more on rain, but no experience with rain yet so i dont know. But for clear night time driving so far they are GREAT
I used that how-to and used a file to get the tab down. and then heated the file up with a propane torch and slid it down inside the plug to melt off those tabs in there and then got a knife and scraped it out. fit really nice and work even better.