[BNPhan21]

Hi everyone,
I am a new owner of a 2008 328xi. I traded in my old E46 for it this past week. I just have a few questions regarding my adaptive head lights and the angel eyes. It looks like the previous owner replaced the OEM bulb for the angel eyes. In the pictures posted they look like 6000K color, but they are actually royal blue. Also, I noticed that only the inside angel eye of each headlight works. Does anyone know why this is? It does not seem normal to me. I plan on replacing the bulbs for the angel eyes altogether, but I want to be sure nothing is wrong with them before spending my money. Any help or input would be great, thanks!

(please excuse the bad quality pics, they were taken from my phone. I dont have a good camera nor do I know how take angel eye photos like you guys without the image being really unclear)

[Wilt]

You might want to investigate changing the source for the Angel Eye to something which is white...in a number of states any color other than amber or white on the forward facing side of the car is illegal...no blue.

Not certain about Angel Eye only inner rings being functional, but it might be a single source lights both AE rings, and the source is not illuminating both rings due to directionality (unlike standard halogen source)

[sarconi11]

I imagine they are just super $h!ty LEDs that don't have the power to light up the large ring. Get something more expensive like Lux and you'll be happy.

[Vitalität]

change the bulbs, that's all needs to be done. Get Lux leds

[LuxAngelEyes]

Originally Posted by sarconi11

I imagine they are just super $h!ty LEDs that don't have the power to light up the large ring. Get something more expensive like Lux and you'll be happy.

+1 you can remove the lights to see what they are first, but i would recommend removing a blue light since that is illegal to drive with. We offer a few differnt rpoducts if you are intersted, an adjustable color angel eye ( from 5000k neutral white to 12,000k bluish white) and also the LUX H8 160 which are the worlds brightest angel eye and a nice natural 7000K color.

With the lights you have, the outer rings are lit, but very dimly. Also they are only visible from straight on and will not be visible if you look at them from the side of looking down at them

[BNPhan21]

thanks for all the help guys! I am leaning towards getting the LUX bulbs, but I also came across CREE angel eye bulbs from Khoalty that claim to be as bright as LUX. Can anyone confirm that? Does anyone have any pictures with the CREE bulbs on their lights?

[LuxAngelEyes]

Originally Posted by BNPhan21

thanks for all the help guys! I am leaning towards getting the LUX bulbs, but I also came across CREE angel eye bulbs from Khoalty that claim to be as bright as LUX. Can anyone confirm that? Does anyone have any pictures with the CREE bulbs on their lights?

They say they are similar to the LUX H8 V3, which is now 3 revisions back and about 5 year old technology. Our LUX H8 V3's were around 650 lumen, while our new LUX H8 V5 are 1200 lumen and the LUX H8 160 are 1600 lumen.

[Bighorns]

Originally Posted by BNPhan21

thanks for all the help guys! I am leaning towards getting the LUX bulbs, but I also came across CREE angel eye bulbs from Khoalty that claim to be as bright as LUX. Can anyone confirm that? Does anyone have any pictures with the CREE bulbs on their lights?

I have the Cree's that I purchased over a year ago at Burger. Not as bright as the Lux, but they look nice, much better than the stock halogen bulbs.





Stock on left, Cree on right.




Daylight.



Half as bright as Lux for half the price!

[mike@x-ph.com]

better LED will get you better results. The inner angel ring will always be brighter than the outer one unless you do custom headlight work.

We have our own 80w kit available and we also offer LUX, both are very popular on this forum.

XPH 80w angel eyes:



LUX 160: