[Googlyamnesiac]

So I bought an F10 520D 2013 recently and I’m delighted with it overall.

One thing that really bothers me though is that seemingly every other F10 owner I drive past dazzles me with their DRL halo/corona rings. Mine are pathetic. I looked at the coding and the brightness is already set to 100% which surprised me, they still just look rubbish.

As I understand it, although I have the halogen package, the rings are LED’s? Although they are dim, they are white, so definitely not halogen.

Are there any solutions to this to at least get them a bit brighter/fuller? Change the bulbs to brighter LED’s? The only other option I found was changing the complete headlights to xenons, which I’ve been quoted 2500GBP for it.

Any ideas??

[BMW FOREVER]

The DRL in the Halogen and Xenon are both LED but completely different units. The Halogens are much dimmer and there is no way they can match the Xenon ones unless you change to Xenons or get aftermarket lights.

[Quicksilv3r]

Dang, y'all don't get xenons as standard over there? I wouldn't buy a car made in the last ten years without xenons.

[Googlyamnesiac]

any recommendations for aftermarket lights? I'm not sure I can bring myself to spend 2.5k on brighter halos!

[Bruno112]

Can you buy from local selling websites or ebay,in my country there is a many headlights for 300 euros without moduls and bulbs

[Googlyamnesiac]

Anyone able to give recommended sellers rather than a random ebay seller? Would I be buying aftermarket bulbs or just brighter led bulbs? I'm confused

[Googlyamnesiac]

http://www.mstyle.co.uk/bmw-5-series...perbright.html

Anyone here used this??

[babaikram]

Originally Posted by Googlyamnesiac

http://www.mstyle.co.uk/bmw-5-series...perbright.html

Anyone here used this??

From my experience of changing my bumper to Sport bumper with them, the quality of their work is poor as they only stuck my PDC sensors to the bumper with glue rather than with appropriate braces. On of the PDC sensors fell inside later and another bodyshop had to sort it out.

I know it might sound crazy, I might probably have to use them again as they seem to be the only one offering this kind of service in UK, I would like to convert my own halogen head light and the angel LED light to xenon and the brighter type LED (respectively) on my 2011 F10, just like you.

[Googlyamnesiac]

Sounds like we need to pool our research together and find out more options. I emailed mstyle as the price seems a bit too good as from what I've read our led's are embedded within the halos and as such makes it impossible to upgrade without replacing the lights completely. That said, I read conflicting information to this somewhere else. It's all very confusing.

Drop me a PM if you're interested in getting this done as it would be good to have someone else who's in a relatively similar area to me too (I'm an hour from Newcastle).

[snj1013]

Keep us updated. I'd be interested in upgrading my halogens.

[Googlyamnesiac]

Still not done anything with this. Anyone know if this is something that would work:

https://www.umnitza.com/browse-by-ca...ngel-eyes.html

[belarus27]

Originally Posted by Googlyamnesiac

Still not done anything with this. Anyone know if this is something that would work:

https://www.umnitza.com/browse-by-ca...ngel-eyes.html

yes , ive seen a thread about someone buying these from umnitza here.
cant recall what it was called tho
you gonna need to get them coded after installing too