just got my tail lights. ordered from ebay, ARE ****! my brake lights will not work with them one will stay on when u turn on the lights and the brake light will be as bright as it should be when ur braking while just the lights are on, and then the other just wont work. not only that the sockets for the bulbs dont even fit in good at all. the connections just are querky. another thing, i blew a fuse with these. funny thing is, when i press the brake ESP comes up on the dash and abs and esp lights come on and esp is not functional whatsoever. weird. but i just need to get a new fuse i swapped it with another to test. btw, now that these are out of the picture, where can i get good e55 type looking taillights for cheap? ones that will be sure to work correctly?

 

ohlord

 

Sigh.....

First of all you blew a brake lamp switch.
Second of all, did you NOT LEARN from my mistakes..........???

 

Considering eBay a source for car parts was the first mistake

 

not quite, ebay can be a very good place to pick up high quality parts for cheap..... BUT you have to know what your looking for.

 

absolutely, if you overlook the part or dont really know the part youre looking for then u shouldnt use ebay; my car was recently broken into, i managed to find a climate control for my car for cheap and a dash mount bracket, ive also ordered sway bar links and bushings through ebay, no complaints from me yet

 

are you returning these? what do they look like? and are they led? if you're stuck with them i might take them off of your hand.

 

well you could i dont know why you would want them they arent leds but they are like e55 tails and they wavey

 

You should buy your E55 tails from me, because I happen to have a pair sitting in my garage.

 

+1You have to be very careful on eBay with electrical parts.

 

you have a pair?! hahaha pm me on the price.

 

$50.

 

yea, they suck real bad. i had to purchase 2 sets of rear tail lights in order to get a good working one. maybe you should try ebay.de because they are produced somewhere else rather than those cheap made in taiwan fakes. anyways, good luck!

 

3 things. are they the full set? are they smoked or not? and how long have they been used for?

 

Outer pair, not full set. Smoked E55. Used for about a year.

 

well i need the full set and i dont really want the smoked as i have a light colored car. sorry but does anyone know where i can buy a good pair of tails from?

 

My car is white. Doesn't get any lighter than that.

 

actually i think the smoked ones look pretty sharp on the white. I had the W124 white with factory smoked rears and I loved it. If you had the full set I would take them from you. What happened to the rest of it?

 

The eagle eye smoked taillights are fantastic, if you know what ur doing.

Like i said in a post a long time ago, they were cheap....and may leak

but u just need pliers to bend the prongs in the bulb sockets, and use a lil silicone so it doesnt leak. thats what i had to do.....


gotta do the research before buying things, oh ya dont ever consider buying the eagle eye headlights :P they suck.

they look just like the picture, message me what buyer u got them from...because i went through the same deal but it sounded like u got a junky set.

 

I bought the full set from another member and had problems with the bulb connections on these, and I'm too lazy to just solder the connection. I got new ones from my OEM parts guy and kept the inner parts. They are an exact match, by the way.
I posted a link to a cheap source of inner pieces in another thread here somewhere.

 

I just installed a set of Eagle Eyes Headlights in my 2000 E55 and they are awesome. The look is killer, makes my W210 look like a W211 a little bit, like jewelry for the car. Driving impression is great. Super illumination, great definition made it easy to aim them correctly. The high beams RULE.

I went for the 6K normal color, not blue at all. Install was definitely not easy. Remove the bumper! Don't try to cheat, though it keeps seeming like a good idea. Follow the directions posted to remove the bumper, but there is one more bolt on each side under the fender inner liner, and oriented crosswise to the car, very long bolts! Then, I found out that my car has Active Lighting. The Eagle Eyes are compatible, but you have to move the motor over from the old cluster to the new one.

Heres's how: Remove the covers from the cluster. Release the motor from the cluster by twisting and pulling like you did with the covers. The motor is still attached to the inner moving light part. Use your hands through the cover holes to move the inner cluster and the motor away from the clusher, and to expose the white plastic retaining ring. It takes some doing, but you can with two screwdrivers, push the ring down into the cluster, off the groove that it was sitting in. Once the ring is off the groove, you can pull the motor off.

To install into the new cluster (you have to remove the vacuum operated system using the same method as above) put the ring on the ball stud on the new cluster. Actuate the moving part through the cover holes to push the ball stud up through the hole. Under the ball stud there is a hole you can insert a screwdriver into (I used a #1 phillips) and once you have immobilised the ball stud this way, you can push the motor onto the ball stud. You'll hear a click when it comes home. Push the moving part through the cover holes and then push the retaining ring up into its groove using a couple of flat screwdrivers.

Now you have the beauty and the brightness of Eagle Eyes and the Active Lighting function works too! It may take a drive or two and a trip to each steering lock above 20 mph before the errors go away on the dashboard. But mine did after a comprehensive testdrive.

Moisture problems which a lot of people were worried about also did not occur in my installation. I did drill holes in my enclosures to run the wiring to the ballasts the same way the stock cluster did. I also used the stock aluminum covers for the ballasts. Be careful if you do this and drill the new housings, it's easy to get dust from drilling into the visible part of the headlight. Run a vacuum as you drill!

Once installed the Eagle Eye Headlights are beautiful, like jewelry for the car and a huge update over the blah W210 stock look.

Bottom Line : I am happy with my Eagle Eyes headlights I got on ebay!!!