Mar 312024
 
An E46 M3 Headlight Saga

I’ve just completed what became a long saga improving my E46 M3 headlight performance. Regular visitors might remember it started about a year ago when I replaced the projector lenses in my headlights. All was fine for a while afterwards. Then last fall I noticed that the passenger side light was much lower than the […]

Aug 152018
 
E39 M5 Headlight Retrofit

Last week I completed a headlight retrofit project on my 2002 BMW M5. The adjusters inside the headlights were broken, causing the lights to point too low. Since I needed to replace the adjusters, I decided to also upgrade to more modern headlight projectors. Some background on why I went for a headlight retrofit. My […]

May 192013
 
Adjusting E36 M3 Headlights

Right after the new year I upgraded my E36 M3 headlights with a new set of European elliptical headlights from BMW supplier Hella. Here’s the full story. After I installed them I had the beams adjusted at a local service station. Recently I noticed that the headlight assemblies were no longer flush to the corner […]

Jan 072013
 
Upgrading Headlights On My E36 M3

Over the weekend I installed my big Christmas gift from my wife, new headlights for my 1999 E36 M3. The new set is actually the same kind of headlights from the manufacturer Hella I installed back in 2004, but in black rather than chrome. For a little background, the stock headlights on the US E36 […]

Aug 152011
 
Repairing After Market Hella Headlights

This Saturday I repaired the angel eye ring in one of my Hella headlights. As you can see in the graphic above, the thing just flat fell off a couple of weeks ago and was loose inside the headlight assembly. Before I took this headlight apart, I tried to get some direction from the manufacturer. […]