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      09-12-2012, 12:51 PM   #111
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Where do you guys put the balasts. Do you fix them somewhere or just drop them randomly?
I put them (ballasts, connectors and everything) around the installed H8 angel eyes. I thought that I could just "throw them inside the headlight hosting" like a lot of people said or what videos shown but it is not as easy as it sound (if you want to do it right). The space is really tight around the H8 light so you need good placement. Although, It's VERY spacious on the adaptive light side I make sure they don't slide over to that space
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      09-12-2012, 03:18 PM   #112
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it appears that some of the other (LUX) has only one hanging ballast box...i do really like the look of the BMS LED..i guess its a personal preference on how worried you are about shifting boxes getting into bad places
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      09-12-2012, 03:19 PM   #113
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has anyone used both twisty-ties to bunch them together and then use (the already mentioned) velcro it to the cover? i feel this could work..any thoughts
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      09-21-2012, 03:21 PM   #114
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How do these compare to the $80 'wide angle' LEDs?

were can I get this from
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      11-10-2012, 03:34 PM   #115
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no one had a Adaptive headlight failure? i just installed mine and got the error. what did you guys do?
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      11-12-2012, 06:08 PM   #116
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Hey, can you guys be more specific in the placement of the ballasts? I am going to double-sided tape them, but I'm not sure where.
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no one had a Adaptive headlight failure? i just installed mine and got the error. what did you guys do?
Can't seem to figure out where to put them. I understand that they have to stay towards the middle of the car, but there really is no space. I taped the ballasts to the inside of the cover, but there's still more pieces to kinda jam into there.

Does anyone know if it's possible to tell which headlight is throwing the code? Or at least recommendations to where we're supposed to put these? The instructions just say to "tuck them into the headlight housing"...
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      11-24-2012, 05:35 PM   #118
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      12-11-2012, 07:30 PM   #119
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I have these as well and my drivers side just burnt out and I've only had them in for about 3500 miles. Sent BMS an email and hopefully they'll help me out on this. Seems like there should be some type of warranty. They're supposed to last much longer than factory bulbs. Sounds like Everfly had the same problem and they took care of it.
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I ended up keeping the bms hid..after I got the adaptive errors I just bunched the ballasts into a def spot and hoped for the best.. it's been 2 months and they look really great..no errors knock on wood
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      12-11-2012, 09:34 PM   #121
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I had these in both my '08 135i and now my '11 135i, I just put the ballasts inside/beneath the bulb and put the cover back over it, no problems. Had them ~10,000 miles no problems!
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They also work in -15 degrees Celsius
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      12-13-2012, 08:14 PM   #123
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two sided tape...
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Mattfg - Where did you get your lights from and were ther Xenons as standard?
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