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<blockquote data-quote="leforte" data-source="post: 156421" data-attributes="member: 1943"><p>hid</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">valkrie,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">i did my e36 retrofit on my own. not a simple tast but its not really a tough one either. kinda time consuming +/-4hours. experimenting with the projector alignment on the first try took up about 3hours but the after that, the second housing is just barely half an hour. some may see it as hard work, but its just worth it after seeing the end result, everything looks stock oem and the best being the oem hid light projection from the projectors. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">A retrofit is worth every dollar saved. coincedentally, i am doing a retrofit for my cousin's FL e46. the projectors took fairly an hour to fit into the light housing, only requiring to redrill 2 holes to mount the projector. a much simpler job than my e36. BUT one missing part... the projector bezel. the e36 with internal lenses negats the need to cover them but an e46 just looks like something is missing. oh well... since there's no bezel, angel eyes makes a good if not a better subsitute. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">ANYWAY... total amount spend ...circa 1800( should have been around 1500 but incurred a last minute spending on the angel eyes)... satisfaction from retrofitting an oem projector ... unbelievable. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="leforte, post: 156421, member: 1943"] hid [SIZE=2]valkrie,[/SIZE] [SIZE=2]i did my e36 retrofit on my own. not a simple tast but its not really a tough one either. kinda time consuming +/-4hours. experimenting with the projector alignment on the first try took up about 3hours but the after that, the second housing is just barely half an hour. some may see it as hard work, but its just worth it after seeing the end result, everything looks stock oem and the best being the oem hid light projection from the projectors. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2][/SIZE] [SIZE=2]A retrofit is worth every dollar saved. coincedentally, i am doing a retrofit for my cousin's FL e46. the projectors took fairly an hour to fit into the light housing, only requiring to redrill 2 holes to mount the projector. a much simpler job than my e36. BUT one missing part... the projector bezel. the e36 with internal lenses negats the need to cover them but an e46 just looks like something is missing. oh well... since there's no bezel, angel eyes makes a good if not a better subsitute. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2][/SIZE] [SIZE=2]ANYWAY... total amount spend ...circa 1800( should have been around 1500 but incurred a last minute spending on the angel eyes)... satisfaction from retrofitting an oem projector ... unbelievable. [/SIZE] [SIZE=2][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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