Hi - thought this was the best place to put my E46 headlight question. I have poor C70 halogen dipped beam due to degraded reflector surface. I have obtained 2x E46 fittings and 2x E46 copy fittings all with hid bulbs. Looks to me as if the original reflectors will fit straight in but the copies have different spacing for the torx screws.
My issue is that I am not keen on fitting the full hid setup for various reasons and I do not recognise the socket used by the current hid bulbs (d2s ?). I had planned/hoped to fit high-brightness 55w halogens but wondered if anyone had done this before me and how they went about it - if all else fails I will need to dremel some used h7 (?) bulbs to fit and jury rig a retention clip of some sort.
One last observation, the BMW parts seem to be of superior quality to that used oem in the C70 and the reflector, in particular, does not seem to be a plastic part which may explain while they are still nice and shiny.
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