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    I guess DEPO lights just suck overall...

    Well, everyone bitches about how the DEPO ellipsoid lights for E30's leak and whatnot... I had a funny thing happen at work on thursday.
    I had an E46 325i '04 come in with a turnsignal bulb out at the front right. I checked the bulb, looked ok, but the contacts were burnt in the bulb holer. I sent a request for a new socket and bulb, and tried to install it in the turn signal housing, but it wouldn't go in. Upon further inspection I found that the housing had melted and was distorted to the point where a new socket wouldn't thread into the housing. I sent another request for a whole turn signal housing and socket, and when I put the old one back in the new box to turn in (its wty), I noticed the front of it said DEPO. I looked at the other light on the left side, it was not a DEPO housing... nor was the new one... so I am not sure how the car aquired one housing of one brand and one of another, but the DEPO I removed also had water inside it from leaking... I kinda laughed since it wen't perfectly well with what everyone said about the lights they made for E30's and it proves the same for even newer car parts they make.
    Just thought I would share 8)
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    Crash car?
    James Peacock

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      they also have vastly inferior light output compared to the real thing. I'm glad to be rid of mine!
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        #4
        Originally posted by m42technic
        Crash car?
        Possibly, but I didn't look that close, and with some body shops these days with new cars it can be very hard to tell a car was in an accident unless you start taking things apart. My thinking was the other side was a DEPO and failed so it had already been replaced with the non-DEPO unit.
        They are just junk so everyone should avoid them at all costs.
        '88 M3.2 S54 Lachssilber/Black
        '07 335i Alpine/Black Sedan
        '12 X5 3.5i Alpine/Black
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