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      04-28-2011, 10:45 PM   #1
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I lost the battle of pursuing pure-white angel eyes

Outer light is always either dimmer or yellow.
So I said "fuck it" and got me yellow H8 bulbs

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      04-28-2011, 10:51 PM   #2
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should have gotten these hahah

http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/e60...eyes-pics.html
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      04-28-2011, 10:55 PM   #3
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There is a GB going for real angel eyes in my sig
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      04-29-2011, 01:24 AM   #4
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I dig the yellow man, I tried it with mtec and with Nokya yellow bulbs....looked cool and even but I picked up a set of LUX v3 h-8's and I love them.....at eye level, the light rings are even, if you look at different angles it changes and the outer is dimmer. BMW made these AE's to be illuminated off one h-8, so as the light gets disapated the outer ring had to be dimmer because it travels further through the light rod. I think that gives our car a distinct look and the LUX leds are the best hands down solution for our cars. OSS and others look ricey and aftermarket as hell, I dont care who makes them, the led rings those companies use cheapen the look of the headlights. The complete blackout looks rice as hell too. Try the lux, I mean really dude....your gonna spend $600+ to have your headlights heated/opened and riced? Save that for other mods.
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      04-29-2011, 03:07 AM   #5
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I love his m6 his youtube channel use to be the best!!
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      04-29-2011, 07:16 AM   #6
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Meh, every single BMW here has either LED or HID rings. I wanted something different

What's weird is that these bulbs (Nokya H8 2500k 35w) are giving me errors on iDrive like they're LED's or something. These are regular incandescent bulbs?

And $300 for LUX LED's? Fuck that. FYI it costs around 50-80 bucks to make them so the markup is crazy.
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I paid $229 for my LUX, and bro let me tell you....there is nothing comparable. Fuck it bite the bullet and do it. I had mad h-8's too (none with errors) some give errors and some dont. You can have it coded out.
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      05-02-2011, 10:23 AM   #8
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Meh, every single BMW here has either LED or HID rings. I wanted something different

What's weird is that these bulbs (Nokya H8 2500k 35w) are giving me errors on iDrive like they're LED's or something. These are regular incandescent bulbs?

And $300 for LUX LED's? Fuck that. FYI it costs around 50-80 bucks to make them so the markup is crazy.
Marc puts time and effort into making the product, and developing better versions as the years pass, so its fair for him to charge for labor as well as R&D time, plus you are exaggerating the markup quite a bit
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he promised me a set at the meet, but totally forgot about me. I contacted him via pm and he replied saying he would have a set at the meet. Got there and he acted like I was crazy, he had no idea what i was talking about. so LUX U GET A :thumb-down from me don't care how good ur bulbs are. Will explore other options.
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      05-02-2011, 10:57 AM   #10
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Marc puts time and effort into making the product, and developing better versions as the years pass, so its fair for him to charge for labor as well as R&D time, plus you are exaggerating the markup quite a bit
30-40 bucks for machining, around $10 per LED, few bucks for LED driver and white plain box packaging. Here's your 70-80 bucks.
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Meh, every single BMW here has either LED or HID rings. I wanted something different

What's weird is that these bulbs (Nokya H8 2500k 35w) are giving me errors on iDrive like they're LED's or something. These are regular incandescent bulbs?

And $300 for LUX LED's? Fuck that. FYI it costs around 50-80 bucks to make them so the markup is crazy.
First off the LUX H8's are not cheep to make - so you are quote off on the numbers you are pulling. Trust me if they were that inexpensive to make then i would be selling them for less - I'm not out here to rape anyone, i just want to make everyone happy with the best angel eyes possible.

Have you tried / seen the LUX H8 V3 angel eyes? the outer ring is just as bright as the inner ring and it is also the same color - that is how i designed them to look.
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30-40 bucks for machining, around $10 per LED, few bucks for LED driver and white plain box packaging. Here's your 70-80 bucks.
also, from your calculation you are wrong - $40 machining + 8* $10 LED's, a few$ led driver ( try 2 * $20) + other materials=== your talking $160 a set in materials
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E92's have the ugliest inner ring. That shits so tiny if the AE is too bright it looks like a HID DRL. Personally I think the inner rings should be a bit dimmer so you can actually tell its an angel eye.
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E92's have the ugliest inner ring. That shits so tiny if the AE is too bright it looks like a HID DRL. Personally I think the inner rings should be a bit dimmer so you can actually tell its an angel eye.
Have you seen the LUX H8 angel eyes, the 2 rings are almost exactly the same brightness with the LUX installed
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E92's have the ugliest inner ring. That shits so tiny if the AE is too bright it looks like a HID DRL. Personally I think the inner rings should be a bit dimmer so you can actually tell its an angel eye.

Bro you've seen my LUX when i took you for a ride that one time from roosevelt field mall, you even told me how bright and nice they were...
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      05-02-2011, 03:21 PM   #16
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I like my 3000K too. I have access to all kind of LED and lighting but still prefer the 3000K bulbs.
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      05-02-2011, 03:44 PM   #17
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My mistake. LUX is the only bright AE I've seen so far that shows the inner ring clearly. I hate the ones that just look like balls of light some companies go over board with it
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