Ada

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/01-05...rdZ1QQtcZphoto

Does anyone know this seller so he can be trusted? I'd hate to get burned on buying a pair. BTW, I would be thinking of installing these on my w203 05 ss. Is there any drawbacks other than the dealership giving me **** if they started acting up ? Any info regarding this is appreciated. Thx

KIRA

LOL COMES WITH 8 PAIR OF LIGHT BULB?? is ugly and shame driving a mercedes at night with one light burn out......

wonder if they fit on C-coupe

Sauceboy01

Man, are you on something!?


Anyway, answer to your question.

I think these lights are great for the price! I would definitely go for it if i were you. The quality seems great from the pictures, but they wont be MB quality. But for the price, definitely a killer deal that will give you the satisfaction that you're looking for out of these lights

HoustonC230

Judging by recent quality surveys... thats a good thing!

My guess is that these are made by the same people that made the black ones. So far I haven't heard any complaints about those... ?

trust203

There are two company made these projectors this one is same as the black one. I have seen these two different projector in person, I prefer the one DEPO made, its a bit better than this one. just my 2 cent.

360_iti

C55 has different headlights than the rest of the C sedans. The close up pictures are headlights for C230, C240, C320, C32 sedans, but not for C55. Take a look at the car pictures.. the black one is C55, the granite grey below it is C32, and the silver on the bottom is C55. The headlight shape on C55 is different.
So when he claimed that the headlights would fit C32 and C55, you can tell that the seller doesn't know jack about C-class headlights. I wouldn't spend any money on it.

Sauceboy01

Very True, but most of the sellers dont know specific details like that about their product anyway. Remember they dont just sell MB merch, but a broad variety as well!

If i didn't drive a C-class i wouldn't know that the C55 has the CLK Front End.

I still think this is a good deal!

gaiex

Be carefull, the car pics showed have real BIX, not that crappy headligths
I remenber someone here buying some healigths of those kind, but not that ones, this ones look the E-class BIX, the other ones where more similiar to the real BIX

M230K

what the hell are those?

they look like the rip off to me man, and first off on the website, they show different pictures of headlights they dont look like the real bixens lol

360_iti

They're just selling the bixenon STYLE housings. Not real bixenons.
Of course there are no ballasts and HID bulbs included. Now look at the granite grey car pic again, take a look at the turn signals, they look different than the ones on the close up pics. Another inconsistency.

Ada

Now that I look at the pics again, yea, the housing for sale isn't even installed on any of those cars. beh.

DRKC240

I bought a set of these Nov 25th for my 02 C240. They ave not arrived yet, but as soon as I get them in I'll post my thoughts and pics.

360_iti

Well no doubt these headlights will improve the look of your car. It's just the info could be slightly misleading for some people. Again these are NOT real bixenons.. they just look like one. Below is the pic of OEM bixenon assembly, and you can see the differences. I would try to find a pair that looks similar to OEM.. but that's just MHO.

CclassRun

related thread

try this link...not the ones you are looking at but may be of interest.

gaiex

Thanks, this is what I was talking about

Ada

Those look better quality and judging by your install, they look great on the car.

DRKC240

I took this past weekend and installed the projector housings mentioned above along with a new Mtec 6000K HID kit. While I know this is personal preference and there are several choices, I think it came out pretty good. The install was pretty straight forward - with many thanks to postings in this forum. The HID kit really was plug and play with no coding issues or error codes. The lights work great at night and even during the day the new housings give the car a new look. I am happy with the choice. Total price was somewhere around $750 for the new housings and the HID kit.

valdes

good job!!! looks good

raymond g-

I'll be the gadfly here... if you shoehorn an HID kit into an assembly designed
and made for H7 halogen, doesn't matter how good it looks cosmetically. The
beam and lighting pattern will still be crap. This is, of course, based on kits
using H7 and rebasing for HID. Halogen projector vs HID projector lens as
well as their respective projector bowls are designed differently...and geared
towards the technical specs of the bulb. In this case, glare and ill mannered
beam pattern results.

I'd be interested in seeing a photo of your beam pattern. Happy to eat my
words if you've successfully matched HID kit with the Depo halogen lighting
system.

DRKC240

Good point. Not something that I had knowledge of before I started this project. I will try to find a place to take a pic of the pattern and see what everyone thinks. If it is off at least everyone else will know what they are getting into before they spend the $$$.

w203

i have to agree.....most of those Ebay guys....don't know crap about what they are selling......

But i have to agree....those projector are pretty nice.....

trust203

I am 100% sure they will NOT match the OEM HID beam pattern, because they are for H7 halogen like you said. But don't forget these headlights cost about half less than the oem HID kit. for the money I save, I will accept the different on beam pattern. Its like those people drive a Mercedes S class will not get a E or C class. I can't afford a new S class so I am getting a C class instead. I am sure S Class is a lot of nicer than a C230 SS. But hey I spent $30K and feel the C class is worth the money !

raymond g-

Well, there's a part of me that applauds anyone for trying to be frugle, but
hoping that this information will help others when costing such conversions
out. Zam2000, I and a few others here have taken bixenon E55s and dropped
them into E320 Depo cases for the same price. What I don't know is how
well they fit into the W203 Depo cases. They are practically drop-in, as
the E55 projectors are near exact mounting dimensions.

So next time, if anyone here picks up a Depo for the C230 et al, give a
shout out and let's see if we can help give you some kick *** lighting
in more cost efficient fashion. As I recall, ballasts, bix projectors, bulbs,
Depo came to $800. Add $10 for silicone sealant.

(more on sealing later)

DRKC240

I tried my best to get a pic of the beam pattern as discussed. Looking at the picture, I am not sure what is causing the mountain like shape heading off to the passenger side. This was about 1 car length from the wall with just the low beams on in a fairly well lit parking garage. I have not had time to really mess with these...maybe some adjustments are in order. Thanks for everyone's input...

amdeutsch

That so called Mountain shape is an on-purpose design in order to help illuminate, on your right street signs, pedestrians, don't blind oncoming traffic on your left, etc.