A tree ended up falling on my car during one of the windstorms we had up here in seattle, it smashed up my passenger fender, bumper, and hood, also leaving scrapes all over my window and smashed my mirror. Replaced the mirror with an extra I had, getting minty lenses for both sides and replaced them. Got new panels from BMW to replace my dented ones from the tree, which were surprisingly affordable for new panels. Paint will hopefully come before picnic.
Did the SQUARED MOTORWERKS Morimoto H1 Retrofit.
Cant say im impressed, The Brackets from SQUARED are great. bit the morimoto products themselves are, in my opinion, absolute trash.
The projector lenses are OK at best. they seem uniform and clear, but dont seem to spread the light very well, theres an obvious hot spot when you turn your headlights on.
IMG_20141201_094911 by Wschnitz, on FlickrThe cutoff is trash, literally worst cutoff ive ever seen Ive tried everything, even assembling without the SQUARED brackets and seeing if the cutoff gets better, but it doesnt.
image (3) by Wschnitz, on Flickr
image by Wschnitz, on FlickrThe bulbs seem to be typical ebay quality rebranded and marked up, one bulb was at least 1000k off the 5k I ordered, the other seemed fine. The best part is trying to get TRS or morimoto to replace it, TRS said for them to replace it, even though i provided proof of the discoloration, that you need to send them a picture of the snipped wires and serial tag. Or purchase a new set outright, and once they get there, repeat process with old ones to get your refund.
ballasts also seem to be ebay rebrand with fancy shells, one ballast flickers pretty obviously, and this is using their "HD Relay" kit thats sent right to the battery to prevent flicker. (note this makes your headlight warning dummy light come on above mirror.
I will most likely be RMA'ing all of it, then selling it to someone at half what I paid for it, putting the stock stuff back in with some OE ballasts and nice Phillips bulbs.
/rant
Replaced my sloppy stock shifter with a Z3 1.9 Shifter
image (2) by Wschnitz, on Flickr
IMG_20150101_125024 by Wschnitz, on FlickrInstalled some Ebay long tubes and had a friend weld me up the midpipes:
IMG_20150113_133449 by Wschnitz, on Flickr
image (1) by Wschnitz, on FlickrSounded awful, so I sold it and put the stock stuff back on, painting the stock headers with high temp black manifold paint (which ended up cracking off because obviously the can lies about it withstanding 450c+)
stock headers by Wschnitz, on FlickrCurrently waiting on getting my Hartges back from the wheel re-finishers, which will tidy up that project.
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