Ebay EURO ELLIPSOID SMILEY HEADLIGHTS

[JOE BMW]

I have these DEPO lights and i have no problems. i have had them for over a year on. i also have 6k hid with are great. i have compared these to orginal brand new Euro units from the dealer and they are very close to the same.

Yes, the material used for the Depo is cheaper but what can you expect for 1/2 of the price.

[nando]

My cutoffs appear to be just fine, nice straight line to the angle. It's been a while since I had my old Hella H4's in my Dodge Challenger so maybe I don't realize how sharp the cut off is supposed to be.

I've had both, trust me there is no comparison at all. in fact right now I'm driving a car with the depos.. and they suck. :(

[JasonC]

My cutoffs appear to be just fine, nice straight line to the angle. It's been a while since I had my old Hella H4's in my Dodge Challenger so maybe I don't realize how sharp the cut off is supposed to be.

got any pics of the e body?

[Dustin]

My cutoffs appear to be just fine, nice straight line to the angle. It's been a while since I had my old Hella H4's in my Dodge Challenger so maybe I don't realize how sharp the cut off is supposed to be.

take a picture.

[bwh13]

My cutoffs appear to be just fine, nice straight line to the angle. It's been a while since I had my old Hella H4's in my Dodge Challenger so maybe I don't realize how sharp the cut off is supposed to be.

[nando]

My low beam cut offs are _/ for both lights just the way they should be.

yes, but the cutoffs are blurry as hell compared to the real ellipsoids.

they are junk, end of story.

[Fidhle007]

My low beam cut offs are _/ for both lights just the way they should be.

Congratulations! Someone get this fellow a cookie. :D

[bwh13]

My low beam cut offs are _/ for both lights just the way they should be.

[erik325i]

speaking of cutoff...my smoked ellips do this __X__ did I get some swapped lenses?

ha, you need to rotate your passenger light. There are three little screws, and then you can move the light one notch over.

-Erik

[JasonC]

speaking of cutoff...my smoked ellips do this __X__ did I get some swapped lenses?

mine was like that too. they are adjustable, just unscrew the 3 screws that hold the elip. on and turn it so the cut off is __/

[e30frosh]

speaking of cutoff...my smoked ellips do this __X__ did I get some swapped lenses?

[erik325i]

the worst part about them is the lighting quality. the cutoff on the lowbeams is terrible.

I agree.
I just installed a set of HIDs into a customer's e30 m3 and while aiming them, I saw how shitty the cutoff is.

-Erik

[JasonC]

I just installed a set of the Depo smileys and did the preliminary aiming tonite. The patterns look fine to me with nice cut-off like they should on low beam. High beams will be aimed later. Since I live in AZ I'm not too concerned with the leakage issue.

The plastic actually looks fine to me, it's a heavy guage ABS or something similar, and doesn't look like it will be failing any time soon.

The only issue I had with them was the wiring hraness adapters the seller included with them, but nothing a little wire and shrink wrap couldn't fix in an hour.

I installed a separate circuit to run the lights with individual circuit breakers and heavy guage wire in case I want to run 80 or 100 watt bulbs(trying to run those through the headlight switch will probably melt the solder inside the switch, that happened to me years agon in my 240Z). The only concern I have is the plug in connectors for the H1 bulbs in the housing. I ordered some BMW connectors that I think I can modify to fit in there so we'll see...

Do the depo's have the __/ __/ cutoff?

[bwh13]

I just installed a set of the Depo smileys and did the preliminary aiming tonite. The patterns look fine to me with nice cut-off like they should on low beam. High beams will be aimed later. Since I live in AZ I'm not too concerned with the leakage issue.

The plastic actually looks fine to me, it's a heavy guage ABS or something similar, and doesn't look like it will be failing any time soon.

The only issue I had with them was the wiring hraness adapters the seller included with them, but nothing a little wire and shrink wrap couldn't fix in an hour.

I installed a separate circuit to run the lights with individual circuit breakers and heavy guage wire in case I want to run 80 or 100 watt bulbs(trying to run those through the headlight switch will probably melt the solder inside the switch, that happened to me years agon in my 240Z). The only concern I have is the plug in connectors for the H1 bulbs in the housing. I ordered some BMW connectors that I think I can modify to fit in there so we'll see...

[nando]

the worst part about them is the lighting quality. the cutoff on the lowbeams is terrible, and the high beam's focus is way off. and yes, lots of them end up leaking (mine did), and they are made of very cheap plastic.