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[KennyT]

Then why didn't you post?

Also, what you posted is irrelevant. The point is that don't expect to get the color you order.

Because I don't expect any company to tell me the 100% truth about anything they sell. When you buy something that you later find out isn't up to your expectations you have three options in America, bitch about it until the company takes care of you, sell the product to some other schmuck (someone who either doesn't care about your bitching, or has a different expectation), or take your bitching to the government. I usually subscribe to the first of the three, or the second when it makes more sense.

who still makes quality retrofits? Find me a quality kit and I'll buy it. By the time I got to buying HIDs, they'd already been all run out of the market. Nobody but the chinese can compete at $40.

Quality functioning kits are still out there, you just have to wade through the fleabay drop shippers.

The coilover situation sounds hilarious. "hey gauize, I can buy coilovers just as good as GC, TCK, H&R, etc for $200! they're just as good, look! you suckers who paid $1500+ are morons!" Yeah, that was hard to see coming..

In my opinion DDM handled things very well, they took care of the screwed over customer, and refunded exactly what people paid for the kit. This is better than what most companies do, and just give people the retail price, screw them on shipping, and make people return the product.
DDM literally said, "here's your money back, you shouldn't use those". My previously mentioned friend paid $811.52 price+shipping, and that is what he was refunded. The kits were around $750 if I recall correctly. The kit that replaced the DDM's was over $900 + shipping and had almost identical valving, construction, and spring rates.

That whole mess could have been avoided with some better MIG welding.

[nando]

"taken care of very well" IMO would be not selling garbage products in the first place. Especially if they are capable of killing somebody.

DDM got very, very lucky. They could have easily been sued out of existance.

[stumble_t]

doesn't this douchebag work there?

[M4DE30]

I use and recommend:

VVME.com for HIDs.

Have a pair of HIDs from them. Worth em . FK DDM!

[Jean]

Lol.... I knew my 4300k were a little too blue, although they still work... but I would never buy suspension or brakes from a company that makes cheap HID kits....that's just asking for it.

[dude8383]

"taken care of very well" IMO would be not selling garbage products in the first place. Especially if they are capable of killing somebody.

DDM got very, very lucky. They could have easily been sued out of existance.

That's the way it works in America, Fuck Yeh!

On a related note, I fucking ordered a 5000k kit from them last week. I wish I would have seen this earlier...

[IronJoe]

Fucking DMM. I knew my HID weren't the color I ordered. I ordered 5000k and I got ricer blue.

I'm not sure I understand how you received ricer blue - according to the chart posted, they sell 4700k as both "4500k" and "5000k". So buying "5000k" from them should have given you 4700k bulbs... wouldn't they be LESS blue?

Or did they send you the bulbs for 6000k/8000k instead?

[george graves]

They must have bumped me up to 6000/8000k. I'm sure the lazy guys there couldn't bother to reach over that far on the shelf.

[bimma360]

So wait... When I ordered my 6000K kit a few years ago, and thought to myself "these are bluer then I thought they would be".... I was actually getting 7000K bulbs? Well that explains it.

Funny enough, I am still on the same bulbs... 2 years later.

Dave

[MoparJ]

doesn't this douchebag work there?

Not anymore. He got fired for theft of company merchandise and funneling customer payments into his own account, IIRC from the thread on Bimmerforums. I don't know if the thread still exists; things get deleted with a quickness over there, it seems.......that's where I originally saw the chart that the OP posted, but the thread is long gone.

[nrubenstein]

I'm not sure I understand how you received ricer blue - according to the chart posted, they sell 4700k as both "4500k" and "5000k". So buying "5000k" from them should have given you 4700k bulbs... wouldn't they be LESS blue?

Or did they send you the bulbs for 6000k/8000k instead?

All the the "4500K" bulbs that I've received from them have been in the 6-12K range. The D2s bulbs were the worst.

[stumble_t]

Not anymore. He got fired for theft of company merchandise and funneling customer payments into his own account, IIRC from the thread on Bimmerforums. I don't know if the thread still exists; things get deleted with a quickness over there, it seems.......that's where I originally saw the chart that the OP posted, but the thread is long gone.

LOL what a creep!

[straight6pwr]

never had a problem with my DDM kits (i've had 4 sets over the years, never had a bad bulb, or any part of their system die), but i DO NOT condone bad business practices. hopefully, they will straighten their shit out or disappear.

i did notice though, that from the first kit to the last one, each one was significantly cheaper in quality, with the last ones looking like they were straight from ebay.

[dude8383]

Is this only for their apexcone kit, or does it affect the raptor kit too?

[george graves]

I just checked my original packaging(I still have it) and it says cq-22. That should be 4700k - yet mine are blue. Urrrr.