Lobitz68

Sounds like metal that has been chrome plated...

Probably a beanstalk that would have grown into the sky, allowing you to enter a world of giants with chickens that lay GIANT golden eggs... Bummer you didn't keep it.

They don't make HIR bulbs in our size (hence the trimming of the tab. Whatever you bought aren't HIR bulbs. They only come in a 9012 and a 9011 size. The 9011 will fit the 9005 bulb slot and the 9012 will fit the 9006 bulb base... http://www.hirheadlights.com/FAQs.htm

The messages I'm talking about will happen while you are trying to start it, not after....

Issues caused by flushes are in poorly maintained vehicles. People wait 150,000 miles to service their transmission, get it flushed causing all of that gunk to break loose and then bitch that the service broke their car. In reality, their laziness is what caused the issue. I have used flushes many times in the past with ZERO issues. Take care of your car and it will take care of you.

So there is no message in the EVIC display when this happens?

HIR bulbs are you best bet for plug and play (i.e., take out your old bulbs and put in the new ones). The best light output (opinions vary) is going to be obtained by retrofitting a HID projector into your current housing and using HIDs. The reason that the projector doesn't blind oncoming traffic is that the projector regulates where the light goes, focuses the light and provides a very sharp cutoff line that minimizes light glare above that line. (see HIDPlanet.com and TheRetroFitSource.com for examples of installs and the components used to retrofit your lights). The reason that HIDs glare when you put them directly into a halogen reflector housing like what the DJ has is that the reflector lens was designed to focus light coming from a halogen bulb. On a halogen bulb the light is created by a filament that basically gets hot by creating resistance. The light emanates from that filament which is a set distance away from the reflector lens. HID bulbs create light throughout the entire bulb by igniting gases. Since the light source is not the same distance from the reflector as the halogen (filament) bulb, the reflector tends to scatter the light all over the place, creating bright and dark spots in the beam pattern and throwing a ton of light up into other people's eyes where it is not useful. Opinions are like A-holes, everyone has them and they all stink. But, for my money the best light output (keeping safety of others in mind) is going to be a properly retrofitted HID light. If you're not up to the challenge of that, HIRs are the way to go. A lot more lumens that a standard halogen bulb and the install consists of cutting a small tab off of the bulb base and installing it directly into your housings. Nothing additional to install at all.

I don't have time to do the search for you, but this is a known issue with a fix... If you took it in each time and it keeps happening then they should work with you outside of the warranty period.

I'm pretty sure he meant to mount the tires on a single set of wheels... So taking off the summer tires and replacing them with the winter tires. This would require quite a bit more work.

Thought you were talking about the conversion... still not "legal", but better performing and safer. Also, BMW is releasing a 5000k light these days (that would be the pure white), which is why I said "tight range", but I believe most do use the 4200k off white bulb. I have used HIR and they are certainly the way to go if you are not interested in doing HIDs the correct way. The light output is much better, just doesn't give that color band that people associate with high end vehicles and that most people are after when they mistakenly buy blue or purple lights.

Word. Me too...

When I google the part number, Champion Iridium plugs come up...nothing else. That would be my guess.

Agree with bfurth... You should be setting the tire pressure per the label in the door, not per the tire.

As stated already, you buy projectors designed for HID bulbs and retrofit them into your current housings. No glare, superior lighting, and instead of getting the "look", you get the real thing. High end vehicles with HIDs don't have blue lights, that blue you see is caused by a combination of your angle to the lens and the shield in the lens that is blocking all of the glare. Correctly installed HIDs (in projectors) will give you no scatter, more concentrated light, a more intense beam and superior lighting all around. The difference is so remarkable that anyone who has done it correctly would never own another vehicle without it...

It's not so much the heat here, but the humidity... We have been in the upper 80's to lower 90's for the last month plus, but when the humidity kicks in you get heat indexes as high as the lower 100's... Personally, I love it. That's why I live here, we get all of the seasons and none of them are half-assed!

If you replace the 4 door speakers you will get a lot more volume out of them. There is also a setting to boost the music to drown out driving noise... try that first and see if it helps.

Agreed. Drives me nuts, but I try not to complain... Some people want the artificial "look" of high end lighting without spending the money to do it correctly and actually get high end lighting.

Black was the right choice then... IMO. Mine is totally blacked out. I would do more coats of each on the wheels though.

Can you post pics from different angles?

Ha! Screw that!

won't need to remove it if you don't want... the dip will peel off of the areas you don't want it.

What color is your DJ?

Actually, it has been proven in numerous studies that driving with the A/C on will give you better mileage than having the windows down when traveling at freeway speeds...

Didn't even notice those. They do look good!