Showing posts with label angel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label angel. Show all posts

Cheap angel-eyes ...

Thought I'd post up my experience with the so called ready made angel eye add-ons for the BMW. As many of you probably have, I searched on Ebay to find a bargain angel eye kit to enhance the look of the E36. I was lured in by the ones on sale from Germany. They were only about £7 per side roughly. Hmmm bargain I thought! Until the day they arrived.... I opened up the package to find some tubes of plastic (circular - I'll give them that!) some resistors and some LED's....
No wire, no decent instructions, nothing!


Luckily I am a dab hand with a soldering iron, good job too!
After faffing around with the electrical side of things I finally have something that looks half decent. So the next job is to connect them into the headlight units on the Bimmer. Not the easiest job in the world... You have to totally remove the head light unit and take off the front lens.

Incidentally I found it to contain a fair amount of water, they are renowned for misting up so I am guessing this was just a build up of that. Still not ideal though...

So off come the light fronts and I set about adding the angel eyes to the existing headlights.

Due to the instructions being less than helpful, this was a little trial and error!

Finally I just about managed to clip the damn things on and re-fit the headlights.

Wiring wise it was a simple (oh a simple part, the joy!!) task of tapping in to the sidelight wiring loom. Easy enough. Lots of tape needed here to ensure water tight seal.

So after all the faffing around installing them, I guess you want to know how they look?

Bloody awful!


They shed hardly any light, and the light it does give out looks more purple than anything!

So the moral of the story is, if it looks to good to be true, you guessed it, it probably is!

My advise is stick to the more expensive kits that are available, or better still, invest in headlights with them already built in.

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