Proud New Owner of 2003 E39 - Need a little help :-)

[phillybimmer]

Hey guys, I recently purchased a CPO 2003 530i (e39). Car is in awesome shape with less than 10K miles on it! It was a steal.... I used to drive an Acura-CL, which you all know, comes nowhere near what a BMW can do. Anyway, I'm just starting off with some pretty simple mods at this point. I did some searches, but am drawing some blanks. I acutally want to change the lights (highs and the fogs) to match the HID's. The dilemma that I'm running into is that some places are telling me my high's are 9005 while others are telling me that they are H7 bulbs. These places that I have been also tell me that the fogs are H7's while others are saying they are H8's. Can anyone else shed some light onto this subject? I haven’t gotten around to pulling the bulbs out and finding out myself.

Also, the angel eyes..... does anyone have a link as to how to change those bulbs (and maybe what kind they are) to match the HID's.

 

[Ghost]

Congratulations on the car and to the board.

I bought my lights from Hoen . I was unsure myself due to an upgrade on the lights that was done by the previous owner. More than likely they are H7 for the highs and 9005 for the fogs but I would suggest that you e-mail Hoen, and send a picture of your lights. They will tell you exactly what you need.

 

[phillybimmer]

Do the hoen's match up well with the HID's? I took a look on there website, and it looks ridiculously good. On my previous vehicle, I had to try a million different bulbs in the highs, till I found ones that matched real nice, beleive it or not, they were a cheap set of APC's that were $30. The Piaa's couldn't even match them in brightness and wouldn't rather didn't look so good with the HID's.