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Sorry they are millenniums. gloss black with mirror cut lip and I went with 18's so that I wouth have a little more rubber to screw around with on the road. had 19" lorinsers for a while and thought those wrapped with dunlops totally blew, very dissapointed with the set up.

Here is a direct link to my wheels ( they are very affordable )

http://www.mandruswheels.com/millennium.html#

amgalex

those tail lights look just like the ones one ebay for 1/2 the price..

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Probably not the same product buddy. But even if they were I would still pay double the price for half the BS in the long run, any day. Along with great prices comes little positive resolve for the customer if something may happen that is not to his or her liking.

LeeRod80

Agreed! MOST eBay products are poorly made.

Bro! I really like those wheels! I NEED to see them on your car!

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Alright man, I'll go run her through the car wash in a couple hours and take some pics to post for you tonight. I'm wondering if I should buy the wheel spacers to kick them out a bit so they are more noticable.

LeeRod80

My markers: (excuse the filth, it's been raining the last 2 days.)



My flat hood emblem:

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Damn those look good bro. That flat emblem looks pretty sick, definately more sporty than the stand up one t'm running around with. I started an album so you can take a look at the wheels. let me know if you still like them

LeeRod80

Thanks!

Nice! Looks really good. Did you just add the smoked tails? I thought you ordered them a day ago?

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no those were already on but the right tail has a problem so I'm axing them both. Just got the headlights with bulbs pre installed delivered today! Damn fast if you ask me. Now it's just the new tails and side markers to be delivered.

LeeRod80

NICE! Can't wait to see them all installed! Whats wrong with the old right tail light? Something fixable? I'll be willing to take em....

m4xm1l10n

these are my wheels

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Should have the headlamps installed tommorrow night, I'm pretty stoked man!
Not sure but I've already pawned them off to a local guy here. Sorry bro

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Those look good on your ride man. nice choice haha. I'm running toyo proxis 4's. How about you?

m4xm1l10n

Yokohama S-drive smooth as butter

SleepersRock

Those side markers are sick. Think im gonna pick me up a pair.

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For that cheap you pretty much have to. I just got mine in the mail and I'm stoked. Now I'm just waiting on the tails and then everything goes on and the pics go up.

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Guys, do not buy the JDM headlights that I talked about earlier in the thread unless you're willing to go through hell to modify them to accept HID bulbs. I bought them under the impression that they were for HID's, this isn't the case. They are halogen! So now I'm paying the mercedes techs to modify the housing to accept the new HID bulbs, cost of install will now be about $320 - $640. I wasn't expecting that much but oh well, I guess the old E55 deserves the best. Oh yeah, ordered 10000K bulbs and they shipped 12000K bulbs Car should be done tommorrow so I'll post the pics then.

MR888

Wtf? what bulbs are you trying to use in the housing? and what type of the housing are the aftermarket head lights

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The jdm housing uses halogen bulbs(9007). I was under the impression that those housed HID such as the D2R's like my headlights that came stock on my car, I was wrong. I have no idea why they would even make a headlight that steps down from HID to halogen but they do. But no worries because I'm paying mercedes to modify the housing to accept the HID bulbs that I ordered along with the headlights. I'll post some pics asap

Esh

Did they offer an HID kit pre-installed on the headlights? A lot of the eBay sellers offer them.

MR888

This was you're mistake, no aftermarket housings come in D2R/D2S like the OEM, I got the ebay DEPOs, and they use H7 housing and I just got a H7 HID kit, you don't need to modify anything if you havn't started yet, you can just get a 9007 HID kit, (its the same HID but the bulb is in size 9007 so it fits) its not a step down like you think it is. And wait a second, what do you mean you ordered bulbs? do you have the HID ballasts to power those bulbs? lol you can't just plug in HID bulbs into the power socket and expect them to work.

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I bought the stuff from woodview.com and they didn't offer them pre-installed. I just figured they were HID considering that it comes stock on my car ha ha. oh well, what's another couple hundred bucks to make her look alot better.

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everything including the ballasts are being transfered over to the new housing, I'm pretty sure that I said something about them being modified to work by mercedes. And unfortunately for me when the problem was discovered at the shop I had to make a decision right there and being that I was already getting charged for the tear down to install the lights I decided to save some coin and just let them convert the housing.

MR888

So you are just reusing your stock ballasts? these aftermarket headlights don't have space to mount the ballasts on the inside of the housing anyway.. (like the oem ones are). It's really easy to hookup a HID kit if it's the proper size bulbs matching to the housing, took me like 10 minutes to do both sides. Trial and error i guess

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Ballast is mounted on the bottom of the housing with the wiring running in. The JDM housing is identicle to my stock housing as far as we could see. Trial and error is how things are discovered ha ha. We're pretty sure it will be sick when completed.