Man - those do look slick on your car and work well with your bolted rim wheels.

Thanks, thats what I was estimating after doing a search on completed eBay auctions for late model lights. BTW, I got this email from a guy that has the set in Dallas CL for $500. How true is all this?? Bear in mind his set includes, bulbs, ballasts, and ignitors?

"These headlights are at least $1000 at the dealership. I can take off the ballasts and igniters, mount em on 07-08 Acura MDX headlights and sell each for at least 450.00, or mount them on 07-08 G35 or M35/45 and sell each for 400.00 . These lights go for 4-500 a pair on ebay w/o the HID components."

I offered him $300 without ballasts; I thought that was fair but he didn't.

 

buy from Riverside brand new for 570.

 

I'm comfortable buying used and I only have budgeted $300 for this upgrade.

 

wait... so which one is brighter?
the 03-05 xenon headlights?
or the 06-07 projectors??

cus when i had projectors on my mini cooper.. i couldn't see much on the road, but then i got another mini cooper with xenons, and it was very nice on the road.

 

it doesnt matter what style headlights you get, its the bulbs that matter, but imo the projectors are definitely better looking than the Reflectors (03-05)

 

completely false. projectors will have better light distribution in just about every case

 

true, i agree they have better light distribution, but if you run different temp bulbs, reflectors can be brighter..

 

im really confuse now..Im trying to upgrade my 03 headlights to a projector. DO I NEED TO MODIFY anything? and I want to change my bulb to 8K HID.do i have to do something? coz i think 03 bulb is different from 06 HID? pls answers me before i commit any mistakes.. thanks...

 

I'm in the same boat - the later model projector assembly will use your old ballasts but require the use of the different D2S HID bulb. A lot of sellers will include bulbs with the headlight assemblies but usually no ballasts.

I'm a newbie here too but maybe someone can confirm?

 

you already have the ballasts, just get projector lights and swap it over.

 

negative.

the factory 4300k bulbs are the brightest available. anything else higher in kelvin is poop (but looks pretty, so its pretty poop). :-)

 

factory bulbs on projectors or reflectors??

 

I'm handy installing CCFL's, I put a set in my 3-series last year. What's the main difference in using the sedan CCFL kit on 05-06 coupe projector style lights?

 

the ring is about 3 times bigger on the sedan.

 

thats pretty substantial. I am still shopping for projector headlamp assemblies, would anyone know the correct diameters needed for the coupe projectors?