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Old 12-02-2009, 09:31 PM
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Can anyone tell me if a bi-xenon headlight assembly from a UK E320 will fit in a USA built E320. I want to do a retrofit but not for $1000.
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Originally Posted by dwh
Can anyone tell me if a bi-xenon headlight assembly from a UK E320 will fit in a USA built E320. I want to do a retrofit but not for $1000.
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Wasn't Kanadia colonized by the King. You shouldn't have an issue driving with with those. Unless the French object of course.

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Originally Posted by dwh
Can anyone tell me if a bi-xenon headlight assembly from a UK E320 will fit in a USA built E320. I want to do a retrofit but not for $1000.
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It would fit but the UK Xenons would have an asymmetric light pattern that reaches a lot further on the left hand side when dipped beams are used. You would have to drive on the left lane or you would blind approaching traffic, your choice.

But you can switch the UK Xenons for "Continental driving" (a lever within the light assembly), that does not make the light pattern mirrored but instead it is made flat. But aren't US lights like that anyway?

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