Installed euro ellips, low beams are weak!

[91 318is]

anybody have a clue on the low beam cutoff direction?

Perhaps a pic of your headlights shining on the wall?

When I'm driving and what little light they put out, the cutoffs were like this

_____/ \_____

is that correct?

[91 318is]

Well I went up to the dealer to pick the parts up and come to find out, they ordered the housings instead. So they looked up the correct part, and the reflector assemblies are $167.85 A PEICE!

Great, now what do I do........

[smonkbmw]

_____/ \_____

is that correct?

should go ____/ _____/

ive never seen (perhaps i dont pay enough attention) any one have as many issues with lights as yourself. then theres aluminum foil boy above with his bad luck too. getting hids is a night and day difference. if youre having out put problems and replacing reflectors that are "mildly" pitted isnt working, guess what? you have electrical problems! i have sandblasted to hell us elips with decent reflectors on my eta. with halogen bulbs in you cant see shit, 35watt hids and you can see for miles.

so maybe dont listen to the BS that hids wont help, cause they do. if they didnt then why does everyone use them for? looks?

[91 318is]

I ohmed out the grounds and they are all good, so no electrical problem. One more dumb question, the metal cutoffs that are on the low beam projectors, when they are installed in the lights, is the metal tab suppose to be on top or the bottom?

I also emailed the seller and hopefully he can help me out, or possibly give me a refund.


And honestly, my luck is always this good

[91 318is]

I also have aluminum tape at work that I may use also. But I think the metal cutoffs on the projectors aren't right either. The cutoffs might be upside down. I'm gonna mess with them and see if that makes a difference.

[91 318is]

Here's the metal tab I'm talking about. This is what the projector looks like as if it was sitting on the car, facing forward. It looks like from the metal tab, that it's directing light upward, away from the ground. The other projectors looks exactly like this. I would imagine that would you flip it over so the metal tab's on top, so it shines the light down on the ground. But you can't flip it because the feet on the projector that mounts it to the reflector housing has little plastic dowl pins so it only goes on one way.

Any thoughts here?

[91 318is]

another pic

[91 318is]

well the seller basically told me screw off so it looks like I'm on my own. Anyone have ANY suggestions?

[///M42 sport]

your rotating the wrong piece, plus your holding it upside down. Look at your light assembly. there are marks clearly for LHD and RHD.

[Kwaaahhh]

well the seller basically told me screw off so it looks like I'm on my own. Anyone have ANY suggestions?

Care to share who the seller is? Would like to avoid him! :D

[e30this]

Care to share who the seller is? Would like to avoid him! :D

The seller was me.
Im not scared to come out and say it.
I told him when he first sent me a PM that I bought the lights from a guy in germany and they was still in shipping to me.
I sent him photos of the lights that was sent to me by the seller. ( and he knew it)
So with that being said, I told him the lights was sold as is since I never seen them in person.
So I told the PO of this thread if he wanted new to buy new.
Dont expect them to be new for 18 year old lights.

[Kwaaahhh]

[tjts1]

Heres what you need to do. The Ecode housings are designed to function in both LHD (UK/Japan) and RHD (US/rest of Europe) countries. You can rotate the reflector in the housing to get one beam pattern or another. From the way you described the beam pattern in the first post, your passenger side headlight is in the LHD position. It needs to be rotated for RHD.

LHD position


LHD beam


RHD position


RHD beam

Easy as pie. Good luck.

The seller was me.
Im not scared to come out and say it.
I told him when he first sent me a PM that I bought the lights from a guy in germany and they was still in shipping to me.
I sent him photos of the lights that was sent to me by the seller. ( and he knew it)
So with that being said, I told him the lights was sold as is since I never seen them in person.
So I told the PO of this thread if he wanted new to buy new.
Dont expect them to be new for 18 year old lights.

What a douche.

[bejbis]

in that picture with the projector in your hand, your holding it upside down. a good way to see what it will look like on the car, is to get a flashlight and shine it through the headlight aginst a wall inside in the dark.

It sounds like to me neither the buyer or the seller did their homework. and also sounds like you got one headlight from a country of orgin where they drive on the left.

that being said. ultimately, you want you pattern to look like this _____/ _____/ more or less. from your little sketch earlier you said it looked like this ____/ \_____, that tells you your passenger shield is wrong.

-dan

Edit: what tjts said, i didnt realise you could just rotate them around. :)

[91 318is]

The seller was me.
Im not scared to come out and say it.
I told him when he first sent me a PM that I bought the lights from a guy in germany and they was still in shipping to me.
I sent him photos of the lights that was sent to me by the seller. ( and he knew it)
So with that being said, I told him the lights was sold as is since I never seen them in person.
So I told the PO of this thread if he wanted new to buy new.
Dont expect them to be new for 18 year old lights.

Since you and I are working this out, I won't go DEEP into detail. Yes I didn't go my homework in referance to the reflectors, I didn't take into account that they could possibly be dull, my fault. I have every PM you sent me, and you never told me they were coming from another buyer in Germany. Plus the one's you were supposedly selling to me had a broken mounting tab, but we discussed this and you said it should be ok with 2 mounts, that was from the 1 picture you posted on the board. And sorry, I can't tell the reflectors were worn out from the picture of headlights completely together.

Another note, I was not going to blow you up on here, the situation was between you and I so I was not going to state the seller in this thread out of respect.

Heres what you need to do. The Ecode housings are designed to function in both LHD (UK/Japan) and RHD (US/rest of Europe) countries. You can rotate the reflector in the housing to get one beam pattern or another. From the way you described the beam pattern in the first post, your passenger side headlight is in the LHD position. It needs to be rotated for RHD.

LHD position


LHD beam


RHD position


RHD beam

Easy as pie. Good luck.


What a douche.

First off, mine are Hella's, so the picture of your bosch's aren't going to help me, but I definitely appreciate it.

The way I'm holding the projector is the EXACT way it's mounting, as if the picture is taken from the low beam light. If the headlights were mounted in the car, that's exactly how the projector would face. There's only one way the projector mounts to the reflector because the reflector housing has 2 dowl pins so you can't flip the projector over. Plus the, the backside of the reflector is marked TOP, and it's notched, so it's only one way it can go, I already tried to flip it and it didn't work.